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However, the project soon stalled after the museum failed to secure funding.<ref>Christopher Reynolds (December 26, 2002), [https://articles.latimes.com/2002/dec/26/local/me-lacma26 The Rise and Stall of LACMA's Planned Reinvention] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915163957/http://articles.latimes.com/2002/dec/26/local/me-lacma26 |date=September 15, 2016 }} ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''.</ref> In 2004 LACMA's board of trustees unanimously approved plans to transform the museum, led by architect [[Renzo Piano]]. The planned transformation consisted of three phases.
Phase I started in 2004 and was completed in February 2008. The renovations required demolishing the parking structure on Ogden Avenue and with it LACMA-commissioned [[graffiti art]] by street artists [[Margaret Kilgallen]] and [[Barry McGee]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Chang |first=Jade |author-link=Jade Chang |title=Art/Shop/Eat Los Angeles |publisher=[[Somerset Books]] |year=2005 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/artshopeatlosang0000chan/page/90 90–98] |isbn=1-905131-06-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/artshopeatlosang0000chan/page/90}}</ref> The entry pavilion is a key point in architect Renzo Piano's plan to unify LACMA's sprawling, often confusing layout of buildings. The BP Grand Entrance and the adjacent [[Broad Contemporary Art Museum]] (BCAM) comprise the $191 million (originally $150 million) first phase of the three-part expansion and renovation campaign. BCAM is named for [[Eli Broad|Eli and Edy Broad]], who gave $60 million to LACMA's campaign; Eli Broad also served on LACMA's board of directors.<ref>{{Citation |last=Boehm |first=Mike |author-link=Mike Boehm |title=BP gives $25 million to LACMA: The BP donation will go toward a solar entrance that the British oil firm hopes will invoke energy innovation. |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=March 6, 2007 |url=http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/cl-et-lacma6mar06,0,1254648.story?coll=cl-calendar }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> BCAM opened on February 16, 2008, adding {{convert|58000|sqft|m2}} of exhibition space to the museum. In 2010 the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion opened to the public, providing the largest purpose-built, naturally lit, open-plan museum space in the world.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Finkel |first=Jori |last2=Times |first2=Los Angeles |date=2010-09-25 |title=Opening of LACMA's Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion brings L.A.-area art patrons and their collection to light |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-sep-25-la-et-resnicks-profile-20100925-story.html |access-date=2024-04-30 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref>
The second phase was intended to turn the May building into new offices and galleries, designed by SPF Architects. As proposed, it would have had flexible gallery space, education space, administrative offices, a new restaurant, a gift shop and a bookstore, as well as study centers for the museum's departments of costume and textiles, photography and prints and drawings, and a roof sculpture garden with two works by [[James Turrell]]. However, construction of this phase was halted in November 2010.<ref name="ConstHalt">Rachel Lee Harris (November 25, 2010), [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/26/arts/design/26arts-CONSTRUCTION_BRF.html?ref=losangelescountymuseumofart Construction Has Halted at Los Angeles Museum] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200117164938/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/26/arts/design/26arts-CONSTRUCTION_BRF.html?ref=losangelescountymuseumofart |date=January 17, 2020 }} ''[[New York Times]]''.</ref> Phase two and three were never completed.
[[Image:Highsmithmaycompanywilshire.jpg|thumb|left|LACMA West, the [[May Company Building (Wilshire, Los Angeles)|former May Company building]] on the corner of [[Wilshire Boulevard]] and [[Fairfax Avenue]], which is currently home to [[The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures]]]]
===Watts Towers===▼
In 2010 LACMA partnered with the [[City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department]] in an effort to ensure the preservation of the [[Watts Towers]], offering its staff, expertise, and fundraising assistance.<ref>[http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/36132/lacma-steps-in-to-preserve-las-leaning-tower-of-folk-art/ LACMA Steps in to Preserve L.A.'s Leaning Tower of Folk Art] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019190113/http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/36132/lacma-steps-in-to-preserve-las-leaning-tower-of-folk-art |date=October 19, 2012 }} (October 25, 2010), ''ARTINFO''.</ref> As of 2018, LACMA is working with Los Angeles County to develop a site at the Earvin "Magic" Johnson Park, which is close to Watts Towers.<ref name="Deborah Vankin 2018">Deborah Vankin (July 3, 2018), [https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-lacma-building-project-update-20180703-story.html At LACMA, new urgency to finish raising $650 million for the new museum building] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117095513/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-lacma-building-project-update-20180703-story.html |date=November 17, 2021 }} ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''.</ref>▼
===South Los Angeles Wetlands Park site===▼
In 2018, LACMA secured a 35-year lease on an 80,000-square-foot, city-owned former Metro maintenance and storage yard from 1911 in the South Los Angeles Wetlands Park area.<ref name="Deborah Vankin 2018"/>▼
===Zumthor proposal===
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Demolition of the Pereira buildings began in April 2020. The demolition was completed in October of that same year.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.dezeen.com/2020/05/04/monica-nouwens-photography-demolition-lacma-peter-zumthor/ |title=Photography reveals LACMA demolition during coronavirus pandemic |date=May 4, 2020 |website=Dezeen |access-date=July 3, 2020 |archive-date=April 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413215157/https://www.dezeen.com/2020/05/04/monica-nouwens-photography-demolition-lacma-peter-zumthor/ |url-status=live }}</ref> By 2021, construction slowed with the discovery of on-site fossil finds.<ref name="Deborah Vankin 2022"/> In the meantime, the Zumthor building opening has been pushed back to 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-lacma-supervisors-final-vote-20190409-story.html |title=LACMA's $650-million new building wins approval from county supervisors |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=9 April 2019 |access-date=April 11, 2019 |archive-date=November 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110181222/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-lacma-supervisors-final-vote-20190409-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Partnerships==
▲===Watts Towers===
▲In 2010 LACMA partnered with the [[City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department]] in an effort to ensure the preservation of the [[Watts Towers]], offering its staff, expertise, and fundraising assistance.<ref>[http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/36132/lacma-steps-in-to-preserve-las-leaning-tower-of-folk-art/ LACMA Steps in to Preserve L.A.'s Leaning Tower of Folk Art] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019190113/http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/36132/lacma-steps-in-to-preserve-las-leaning-tower-of-folk-art |date=October 19, 2012 }} (October 25, 2010), ''ARTINFO''.</ref> As of 2018, LACMA is working with Los Angeles County to develop a site at the Earvin "Magic" Johnson Park, which is close to Watts Towers.<ref name="Deborah Vankin 2018">Deborah Vankin (July 3, 2018), [https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-lacma-building-project-update-20180703-story.html At LACMA, new urgency to finish raising $650 million for the new museum building] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117095513/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-lacma-building-project-update-20180703-story.html |date=November 17, 2021 }} ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''.</ref>
▲===South Los Angeles Wetlands Park site===
▲In 2018, LACMA secured a 35-year lease on an 80,000-square-foot, city-owned former Metro maintenance and storage yard from 1911 in the South Los Angeles Wetlands Park area.<ref name="Deborah Vankin 2018"/>
===Las Vegas Museum of Art===
In 2023, LACMA and the foundation of the philanthropist [[Elaine Wynn]] announced their partnership to launch the Las Vegas Museum of Art (LVMA).<ref>Gabriella Angeleti (23 December 2023), [https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/12/23/will-las-vegas-finally-get-an-art-museum-collector-elaine-wynn-and-lacma-back-new-150m-institution-in-citys-symphony-park Will Las Vegas finally get an art museum? Collector Elaine Wynn and Lacma back new $150m institution] ''[[The Art Newspaper]]''.</ref> That same year, the Las Vegas council approved negotiations to dedicate a parcel of land for the proposed 90,000-square-foot, three-story building of the Las Vegas Museum of Art in [[Symphony Park]].<ref>Gabriella Angeleti (23 December 2023), [https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/12/23/will-las-vegas-finally-get-an-art-museum-collector-elaine-wynn-and-lacma-back-new-150m-institution-in-citys-symphony-park Will Las Vegas finally get an art museum? Collector Elaine Wynn and Lacma back new $150m institution] ''[[The Art Newspaper]]''.</ref><ref>Jessica Gelt (22 April 2024), [https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-04-22/lacma-sharing-art-las-vegas-museum Inside LACMA’s plans to share its collection with a new Las Vegas museum: ‘I’m a West Coast booster’] ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''.</ref>
===''Local Access''===
With the support of a 2021 grant provided by [[Art Bridges Foundation|Art Bridges]] and the [[Terra Foundation for American Art]], LACMA launched a collaboration called Local Access, in which the museum shares portions of its collection with the [[Lancaster Museum of Art and History]], [[Riverside Art Museum]], [[Vincent Price Art Museum]] at [[East Los Angeles College]], and [[California State University, Northridge]], Art Galleries.<ref>Jessica Gelt (22 April 2024), [https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-04-22/lacma-sharing-art-las-vegas-museum Inside LACMA’s plans to share its collection with a new Las Vegas museum: ‘I’m a West Coast booster’] ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''.</ref>
==Exhibitions==
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LACMA's Latin American Art galleries reopened in July 2008 after several years renovation. The Latin American collection includes pre-Columbian, Spanish Colonial, Modern, and contemporary works. Many recent additions to the collection were financed by sales of works from an 1,800 piece holding of 20th century Mexican art compiled by dealer-collectors [[Bernard Lewin|Bernard and Edith Lewin]] and given to the museum in 1997.<ref name="LatimesLatinJuly262008"/>
The [[pre-Columbian]] galleries were redesigned by [[Jorge Pardo (
The museum's pre-Columbian collection began in the 1980s with the first installment of a 570-piece gift from Southern California collector [[Constance McCormick Fearing]] and the purchase of about 200 pieces from L.A. businessman [[Proctor Stafford]]. The holdings recently jumped from about 1,800 to 2,500 objects with a gift of Colombian ceramics from [[Camilla Chandler Frost]], a LACMA trustee and the sister of [[Otis Chandler]], former ''Los Angeles Times'' publisher, and [[Stephen Munoz-Kramer|Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer]] of Atlanta, whose family built the collection.<ref name="LatimesLatinJuly262008"/> A sizable portion of LACMA's pre-Columbian collection was excavated from burial chambers in Colima, [[Nayarit]] and other regions around Jalisco in modern-day Mexico.<ref name="LatimesLatinAug12008"/> LACMA boasts one of the largest collections of [[Latin American art]] due to the generous donation of more than 2,000 works of art by [[Bernard Lewin]] and his wife Edith Lewin in 1996. In 2007 the museum signed an agreement with the Fundación Cisneros for a loan of 25 colonial-style works, later extended until 2017.<ref name="Spreading the riches"/>
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==Programs==
In 1966 Maurice Tuchman, then curator of modern art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, introduced the Art and Technology (A&T) program. Within the program, artists like [[Robert Irwin (artist)|Robert Irwin]] and [[James Turrell]] were placed, for example, at the [[Garrett AiResearch|Garrett Corporation]], to conduct research into perception.<ref>Randy Kennedy (December 9, 2013), [http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/09/art-and-technology-together-again-at-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art/ Art and Technology, Together Again, at Los Angeles County Museum of Art] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211012749/http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/09/art-and-technology-together-again-at-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art/ |date=December 11, 2013 }} ''[[New York Times]]''.</ref> The program yielded an exhibition that ran at LACMA and traveled to [[Expo '70]] in Osaka, Japan.<ref>David Ng (December 10, 2013), [https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-lacma-art-technology-program-20131210,0,7309800.story#axzz2nD5XkpJv LACMA resurrects art and technology program, teams with Google] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140211064526/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-lacma-art-technology-program-20131210,0,7309800.story#axzz2nD5XkpJv |date=February 11, 2014 }} ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''.</ref> It also contributed to the development of the [[Light and Space]] movement.
In 2014, the museum opened its Art + Tech Lab, building on the legacy of the original Art and Technology program and its associated 1971 exhibition. Since then, the Art + Tech Lab has presented an annual series of artists’ projects that engage with contemporary technology.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lunenfeld |first=Peter |date=2015-09-01 |title=“ART AND TECHNOLOGY” |url=https://www.artforum.com/columns/art-and-technology-2-225373/ |access-date=2024-06-03 |website=Artforum |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Management==
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