Design and Architecture
Marciano and ‘art labor’; Shortlisted!
Marciano Art Foundation is closing. The news came days after visitor services associates announced their intention to unionize.
By Frances Anderton • • 28m ListenMarciano Art Foundation is closing. The news came days after visitor services associates announced their intention to unionize. DnA attends a protest outside the Wilshire museum to hear about the role of low-paid labor in the highly lucrative world of contemporary art.
Plus, more changes are coming to Museum Row, but LA-based architects aren’t getting to design them. We look at the shortlist for the La Brea Tar Pits expansion, and the role of localism in a global architecture profession.
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2 storiesMarciano Art Foundation and the value of ‘art labor’
Dozens of fired museum employees and their supporters rallied last Friday outside the Marciano Art Foundation, the now-closed arts institution in a former Scottish Rite Masonic Temple on Wilshire Boulevard. Opening just two and a half years…
Read the story16 minShortlisted! The role of localism in design commissions
Last week LACMA director Michael Govan and his supporters went before an LA city council committee to ask for the air rights over a portion of Wilshire Boulevard to be vacated.
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