LACMA Collectors Committee Weekend
Photo Credit: Michael Buckner for Getty Images
Photo Credit: Michael Buckner for Getty Images
Photo Credit: Michael Buckner for Getty Images
Photo Credit: Michael Buckner for Getty Images
Photo Credit: Michael Buckner for Getty Images
Photo Credit: Michael Buckner for Getty Images
Photo Credit: Michael Buckner for Getty Images
Photo Credit: Michael Buckner for Getty Images
Photo Credit: Michael Buckner for Getty Images
Photo Credit: Michael Buckner for Getty Images
Photo Credit: Michael Buckner for Getty Images
Photo Credit: Michael Buckner for Getty Images
Photo Credit: Michael Buckner for Getty Images
Photo Credit: Michael Buckner for Getty Images
Photo Credit: Michael Buckner for Getty Images
Photo Credit: Michael Buckner for Getty Images
Photo Credit: Michael Buckner for Getty Images
Photo Credit: Michael Buckner for Getty Images
Photo Credit: Michael Buckner for Getty Images
Photo Credit: Michael Buckner for Getty Images
Photo Credit: Michael Buckner for Getty Images
Photo Credit: Michael Buckner for Getty Images
Supporters of Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art (LACMA) gathered on Saturday, April 26, to vote on new acquisitions for the museum, raising their high-tech paddles for a variety of artworks, vacations, and wines during a live auction that was part of the sixth annual Collectors Committee Gala. The gala event was the third in a series of festivities for the institution’s Collectors Committee Weekend, an event that kicked off on Friday, April 25, with private dinners for Collectors Committee members held at the homes of LACMA trustees. Guests sat down to meals created by such chefs as Nobu Matsuhisa and Gregorio Stephenson, José Andrés, and Christopher Kostow paired with wines from celebrated vintners including Darioush, Spottswoode, and Bond Estates. LACMA curators were also on hand to chat with guests about the potential new acquisitions they presented on Saturday afternoon. The two-day event raised $4.1 million—through Collectors Committee dues, funds from individual donors, and the live auction—towards acquisitions, which were announced at the concluding gala dinner presented by Collectors Committee Chair Ann Colgin. The new works included Roni Horn’s Untitled—a lavender-hued, 3,000 pound glass sculpture—a 9-foot tall poster by Charles Rennie Mackintosh made for the Scottish Musical Review in 1896, two 9th century lion sculptures carved from a sacred shinboku tree, and a 1952 print by Pablo Picasso depicting a theatrical scene of a Spanish horsemen instigating a bullfight aptly entitled Bull and Picador. Also obtained by the museum over the weekend was an installation, Helen Pashgian: Light Invisible by Pasadena-based artist Helen Pashgian that was acquired through a donation by Carole Bayer Sager and is currently on view at the museum through June 29.
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