Michael Govan, director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is well known in the museum world for his fund raising skills. He seems to have scored a coup this week by attracting some very affluent names to the LACMA board of directors. One is Gabriel Brener, CEO of Brener Interenational Group. [...]

 Let's finish up that conversation with Maya Lin about her new earthwork project, Storm King Wavefield. LACAYO: The Wavefield is a succession of enormous grassy mounds. It's made of planted earth, it's outdoors and exposed to the elements. So do you expect that this piece will eventually decay? LIN: It'll erode, it'll soften. [...]

 Let's continue that conversation with Maya Lin about Storm King Wavefield, the large earthwork she just unveiled at a sculpture park in upstate New York. LACAYO: For a long time people have understood that your Vietnam Veteran's Memorial is in some ways a Minimalist work or post-Minimalist work. What the Wavefield makes you [...]

 It was 20 years ago this month that the Corcoran Museum in Washington, D.C. decided to cancel a show of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe rather than risk a confrontation with culture war conservatives who were gunning to take down the National Endowment for the Arts. They came close to taking it down anyway and [...]

 In April I posted a few times about the latest royal architectural dust-up in Britain, where Prince Charles stepped in at the last minute to object to the design of a London apartment project being developed by a company headed by members of the royal family of Qatar. The Qataris had chosen as their [...]

 The other day I stopped by the New York studio of Maya Lin, the artist-architect-memorial designer, to talk with her about current projects, but mostly about Storm King Wavefield, the large new earthwork she just unveiled at Storm King Art Center, the mountainside sculpture park about an hour north of Manhattan, which I was on [...]

 I wasn't surprised this morning to see that the government of Greece has turned down an offer from the British Museum to lend the Elgin Marbles for three months to the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, which will be having its much delayed official opening on June 20. In October of 2007, when the [...]

 Earlier this week I posted about Frank Gehry's departure as architect of the NBA arena planned as the centerpiece of the giant Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn. At the time I noted that he was still identified as "master planner" for the overall project ? 17 buildings on a 22-acre site, including office towers [...]