Come For The Jeff Koons Living Sculpture, Stay For The Wine: A Map Of Lacma's David Geffen Galleries

Los Angeles is getting a brand-new taste playground successful nan 3.5-acre nationalist parkland surrounding Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s David Geffen Galleries. The caller campus, pinch its outdoor drinking and eating options and landscaped sculpture garden, is meant to beryllium a portion of nan city, truthful ft postulation is expected and welcome. The 360-degree windows that ringing designer Peter Zumthor’s 347,500-square-foot building let you to drawback glimpses of nan interior, and those wrong tin spot you — making your motions, your journey, your day, integral to nan creation of nan place. So person immoderate fun!

You don’t request to bargain a summons to return successful immoderate awesome nationalist art. You whitethorn person a cardinal pictures of your family successful Chris Burden’s “Urban Light,” but now you tin crouch earlier Jeff Koons’ monolithic topiary sculpture “Split-Rocker,” pinch its colorful riot of autochthonal blooms; aliases motorboat yourself up to an alien vessel wrong Shio Kusaka’s “Beam.” Don’t miss pondering nan enigma of Pedro Reyes’ “Tlali” aliases catching nan mist from Alexander Calder’s playful fountain “Three Quintains (Hello Girls).”

Stop for a latte astatine nan cafe beside nan second installation, enjoying nan caffeine unreserved astatine an outdoor array pinch position of nan La Brea Tar Pits, aliases drawback luncheon astatine nan edifice lodging Sarah Rosalena’s woven wonderment “Threading nan Boundless: Omnidirectional Terrain.” Looking for thing stronger? Make nan trek crossed Wilshire Boulevard to nan vino bar, and watch a movie aliases typical impermanent speaker successful nan museum’s caller 300-seat theater.

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Galleries
1. Resnick Pavilion
2. BCAM

Installations
5. Michael Heizer’s Levitated Mass
6. Robert Irwin’s Primal Palm Garden
7. Sarah Rosalena’s Threading nan Boundless: Omnidirectional Terrain (2025)
8. Chris Burden’s Urban Light
9. Tony Smith’s Smoke

Amenities
16. Smidt Welcome Plaza & Ticket Office
17. Restaurant
18. LACMA Store

In nan neighborhood
23. Academy Museum
25. Wilshire/Fairfax Metro Line  (Naomi Otsu / For The Times)

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Galleries
3. David Geffen Galleries
4. Pavilion for Japanese Art

Installations
10. Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Sculpture Garden
11. Pedro Reyes’ Tlali
12. Mariana Castillo Deball’s Feathered Changes
13. Alexander Calder’s Three Quintains (Hello Girls)
14. Shio Kusaka’s Beam
15. Jeff Koons’ Split-Rocker

Amenities
19. W.M. Keck Education Center
20. LACMA Cafe
21. Wine Bar
22. Theater

In nan neighborhood
24. La Brea Tar Pits and Columbian Mammoths  (Naomi Otsu / For The Times)