You Can Shop at LACMA But You Can't See the Art: Why Museums Must Reopen
In this opinion column, Carolina A. Miranda makes the case for reopening museums such as LACMA and Hammer Museum due to the lack of COVID-19 regulations for other commercial businesses and institutions.
"If you try to visit the Los Angeles County Museum of Art this week, you can enter the Resnick Pavilion and browse its gift shop, where you might peruse one of several catalogs featuring the work of Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara, who is currently the subject of a major retrospective at the museum. You can also pick up one of several Nara-designed skateboard decks, Nara T-shirts and Nara colored pencil sets. While you’re at it, don’t forget the Nara disposable bandages. (Only $12!)
What you cannot do is see the Nara exhibition in the BCAM building across the way. Nor can you view any of the exhibitions currently installed inside the Resnick Pavilion, which include a show of photography by Vera Lutter, which chronicles LACMA’s now-demolished east campus, and an architectonic installation by Korean artist Do Ho Suh.
If you are crafty, though, you can catch a glimpse of Suh’s ethereal installation of a New York apartment rendered out of translucent polyester on your way to the gift shop. You can also ogle Mark Bradford’s large-scale painting “150 Portrait Tone,” because it sits, unavoidably, in the Resnick’s lobby." - Carolina A. Miranda, Feb. 12, 2021
This post is an excerpt. Read the full article on the Los Angeles Times website.
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