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Every now and then over the past half-century, wallpaper has stepped forward to play an unexpected leading role in art.
Yes, wallpaper.
In the 1960s there was Andy Warhol’s frilly pink cows, which queered Picasso’s self-identification as art’s macho bull. In the ‘70s, Tina Girouard went around the bend of Conceptual art, replacing rigorously mathematical wall drawings with geometric bits of grandma’s parlor décor. Later, Jim Isermann affixed abstract vinyl decals to museum walls, transforming a high art institution into a domestic home for acute DIY craft.
Now, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, wallpaper is a linchpin in a marvelously multidimensional installation by Cauleen Smith.
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A soaring arts scene in Los Angeles confronts a changing landscape
A rendering of the new David Geffen Galleries at Lacma, a wavy, light-filled building being designed by Peter Zumthor. The citys cultural institutions, buffeted by the pandemic, will have to recover without the help of Eli Broad, the transformational benefactor who died last month. Atelier Peter Zumthor & Partner/The Boundary via The New York Times.
by Adam Nagourney
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an open construction pit these days, surrounded by 12-foot-high wooden fences, with cranes rising across now open skies. Most of its midcentury modernist complex on Wilshire Boulevard was quietly demolished during the COVID shutdown to make way for a wavy $650 million light-filled building spanning the boulevard and designed by architect Peter Zumthor.