LACMA
[Portrait by Jacques-Louis David at left.]
I spent 45 minutes on a Sunday evening at the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art. Nice thing is that street parking is free on Sunday and the museum is also free after 5pm (thanks to Target stores). Parts of the Ahmansen building are closed for now, and I didn’t get a chance to see the Japanese or Contemporary art pavilions in that short visit, but the European paintings and art in the Hammer building were quite good. The building exteriors are quite old and unimpressive compared to the new Getty further North. However there is a renovation effort going on which will hopefully update at least some of the galleries.
At present, there is a small exhibition on-going for Jacques-Louis David who painted ‘The Death of Marat’, a famous painting of a French revolutionary in a bathtub. That painting of course isn’t at LACMA, it’s currently displayed at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels.
