Dear fellow LACMA Lover,

Thank you for joining more than 800 concerned citizens who have signed the petition urging the Los Angeles County Supervisors to reconsider their approval of the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for LACMA's Wilshire-straddling redevelopment plan.

We write to pull your sleeve to a short piece by Deborah Vankin in the Los Angeles Times earlier this week, titled “LACMA opposition group vows to keep fighting the museum’s Zumthor plan.”
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-lacma-protest-20190625-story.html

The reporter learned about, and asked for a statement regarding, a gathering of concerned citizens who met a week ago to brainstorm about what’s next for LACMA. Our full response to her is below:

“There is growing public concern about the LACMA plan. The ad hoc meeting on Sunday in a loft downtown was of a group of concerned citizens who got together to begin a discussion about this grave situation. The group members all feel that public input has been discounted and curtailed, and they are seeking to express the public voice, in the public interest. Everyone attending opposed, for many reasons, the plan as proposed, and the discussion centered around how to go back to the drawing table for a better, more reasonable architectural solution to the crisis that LACMA is now facing due to the redesign plan. The purpose of the meeting was to explore and delineate the problem space.”

Another link of interest is this rare interview with architect Peter Zumthor, on how he is approaching the LACMA redesign project. Even automatically translated from the German, his remarks raise numerous red flags about the lack of transparency and prudent planning behind the extremely costly public project.
https://lacmaonfire.blogspot.com/2019/06/zumthor-speaks-lacma-to-be-asylum-for.html

We will continue to advocate for an open conversation with the Los Angeles County Supervisors about the LACMA plan, and to gather supporters of this conversation under the umbrella of the LACMA Lovers League.

Please keep sharing the petition link (http://chng.it/PBQw6hhzdX) with your friends who love LACMA and want it to remain at the heart of our city's culture and community. And stay tuned for updates as we have them.

The LACMA Lovers League is also on Facebook:
 https://www.facebook.com/lacmaloversleague

Yours for Los Angeles,
Kim Cooper & Richard Schave
The LACMA Lovers League