Posted Jan 20, 2017, 3:08 AM
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Michael Govan, the director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has a provocative vision for his museum and his adopted city.
“There’s not a city in America that will look as different in 30 years as L.A. will look,” Mr. Govan said. “They are tearing down whole city blocks as we are speaking. I love it.”
“It’s changing,” he said. “Don’t you see it before your eyes? Out your window? Since it’s going to change, what’s it going to change into? I’m not sure I know. I am certainly drawn to the fact that each of us is going to have a little impact on it.”
Mr. Govan’s campaign comes as the Los Angeles art world is churning. The Broad Museum, exhibiting Eli and Edythe Broad’s collection of modern art, opened downtown in 2015, and on the other side of the cultural tracks, Hauser & Wirth took over a sprawling old flour mill in the Arts District, turning it into a museum-scale gallery that is already crowded on weekends. This city is awaiting the April opening of a private art museum from Maurice and Paul Marciano, Guess co-founders, in a renovated Masonic Temple in Koreatown. The Santa Monica Museum of Art is moving to the downtown Arts District this fall, with a new name: the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. And George Lucas, the filmmaker, after years of “site wars,” recently announced he would bring his Museum of Narrative Art to Exposition Park and fund the project — about $1 billion — himself.
Mr. Govan said that Los Angeles stood out today as a city where art is being made — as artists flock here to take advantage of the light and the space — rather than a place where it is being shared with the public. “You could argue that there is no city that is more vibrant,” he said. “You may argue there are cities as vibrant — Berlin is very vibrant; New York City outside of Manhattan is very vibrant.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/a...-director.html
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