The Iconoclast Remaking Los Angeles’s Most Important Museum | The New Yorker

The Iconoclast Remaking Los Angeles’s Most Important Museum

Will the new LACMA building be Peter Zumthor’s masterpiece or a fiasco?

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/12/the-iconoclast-remaking-los-angeles-most-important-museum

Anna studied him. She has blond hair, cut asymmetrically, and wore a cobalt-blue shirt. “No,” she said. “You’re a good example of post-traumatic growth.” In 2004, she had accompanied her father to the site one last time before the towers came down. At dinner, she said that in footage of that visit “you can see the exact moment when you realize this is a stillbirth. You’re brokenhearted. You were misunderstood, blackmailed, your reputation was murdered.”