The David Geffen Galleries • LACMA

"The David Geffen Galleries—LACMA’s new home for its permanent collection—rise above Hancock Park, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits. Crafted from architectural concrete and glass, the building’s organic form spans Wilshire Boulevard—a sculptural whole that embraces the neighborhood. Outside, its elevated gallery floor creates 3.5 acres of shaded public space below. Inside, visitors encounter airy perimeter galleries with floor-to-ceiling windows, plaza-like courtyard galleries where stories converge, and intimate interior galleries that encourage contemplation. Inspired by an oceanic framework, the galleries explore networks of exchange around the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and Mediterranean Sea. This arrangement creates unexpected encounters—a seventeenth-century Dutch painting beside twentieth-century photography, African textiles near American quilts—inviting you to find visual and thematic connections across time and geography. With a nonhierarchical layout of close to eighty presentations comprising nearly 2,000 objects (with another 800–900 expected to be added through the summer), you’ll discover new works as well as rediscover familiar pieces in entirely new contexts." via ‪@lacma‬