“The ever-evolving Los Angeles County Museum of Art has cleared its biggest hurdle to erecting a radical new building by the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor that represents one of the country’s most ambitious museum transformations.
The county board of supervisors voted Tuesday to approve the current plan and release $118 million in taxpayer funding for it, despite last-minute entreaties from some art and architecture critics who urged the board to vote against the project.
Michael Govan, the museum’s director, in turn, took to the Opinion page of The Los Angeles Times to present his case.
“This is the big green light everybody has been waiting for,” Mr. Govan said after the meeting, where leaders of neighboring museums and celebrities like Brad Pitt and Diane Keaton made short public comments of support. “Now we can go ahead with construction drawings and go raise the rest of the funds with the assurance this is going forward.”” Excerpt from New York Times
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