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.
The Broad Museum in Los Angeles Photo by Tu Tram Pham on Unsplash
A year after the Covid-19 pandemic forced museums across the US to shut down, many are now greeting visitors at limited capacity after a loosening of wildly divergent state and city restrictions. California, however, has been an outlier: its museums have remained closed as they had been, with a few exceptions, since the first wave of Covid-19. Still, some relief seems to be on the horizon, as evidenced by Tuesday s announcement that San Francisco museums could reopen this week with limited attendance.
At the end of January, Governor Gavin Newsom relaxed some of the state’s health safeguards, allowing restaurants to resume outdoor dining and other businesses such as zoos, gyms and even hair and nail salons to reopen at limited capacity while museums were firmly excluded.
Funders Unite to Support Los Angeles Arts Nonprofits
February 17, 2021
A group of funders led by the J. Paul Getty Trust have banded together to support small- and medium-sized arts organizations. Under the heading The LA Arts Recover Fund, a dozen initial funders have raised $38.5 million. The fund’s grants will provide a minimum of two years’ operating support to Los Angeles County arts organizations that had annual operating budgets of less than $10 million prior to March 2020.
The fund is administered by the California Community Foundation. In addition to financial resources, the fund will aid organizations’ efforts in gaining capacity-building support and technical assistance. The fund is open and the administrators hope to increase it to $50 million. As part of the fund, the Ford Foundation issued a challenge grant aimed at supporting Asian, Black, Indigenous and Latinx arts organizations.
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New $38.5M Fund Launches For Los Angeles Arts Pandemic Recovery
February 09, 2021 15:10
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The largest-ever pooled private investment for arts across Los Angeles County will sustain community organizations and save jobs
Arts nonprofits in LA County will benefit from a record $38.5 million pandemic recovery fund, the result of an unprecedented collaboration between Los Angeles-based and national philanthropic organizations.
The LA Arts Recovery Fund pools contributions from more than a dozen funders to provide multi-year operating support for small and medium-sized arts organizations impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic those with smaller budgets that play vital roles in their communities.