Is LACMA Losing Its Artistic Soul?

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is certainly not the only American museum to recognize the economic potential of blockbuster exhibitions that come with massive corporate sponsorship, but Holly Myers worries about the museum’s soul, and wonders where all its curators have gone. “LACMA’s flirtation with corporate production is lamentable in relation to Tut. More distressing, however, is the fact that many of the same problems also plague… a comparatively low-profile exhibition that doesn’t involve extraordinarily precious artifacts and isn’t likely to draw record-breaking crowds — suggesting that LACMA’s problem goes deeper than the necessary indulgence of an occasional blockbuster.”