#8 LACMA (part 1)

Great Art Historians Don’t Always Write Great Object Labels

What struck me as I walked through the galleries of LACMA’s Modern Art Collection on the third floor of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM) pavilion was the speed—the sheer pace at which visitors moved through the space. In a room with perhaps twelve or fifteen paintings, most people glanced at only a handful. Of those, they read the object labels …