04/18/2026
Can an art museum tell a non-linear version of art history and still be legible to its visitors? That’s the question guiding the David Geffen Galleries, the new Peter Zumthor-designed building for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that opens to members on April 19 and to the public on May 4.
This one-level museum eschews traditional museological hierarchies. European paintings are not given priority, Greco-Roman sculptures are not awarded long marble hallways, and art of the Americas, Africa, and Oceania is not tucked away in dusty corners. Instead, art from LACMA’s 15 curatorial departments can go anywhere in the building—no department has an earmarked space, and some departments, like the one for costumes and textiles, even have more on view than ever before.
“If this is what the future of museological display is, count me in,” writes.
Read about the 25-year process of rethinking LACMA—and its triumphant new galleries: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/reviews/lacma-david-geffen-galleries-review-1234781676/
