Wednesday, 27 February 2008 |
The opening of a museum is just about as much fun as ... what? The
closing of a museum? We can quit this sort of kidding now that we’ve
seen the star-studded opening gala of Lacma — the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art. Tom Cruise, Christina Aguilera, Katie Homes and Tony
Bennett were just a few of the luminaries enjoying the lavish Wolfgang
Puck-catered, Lionel Ritchie-entertained dinner as a prelude to the
opening of the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum building of Lacma.
Urban Light, a fantastic forest of vintage lampposts by Chris Burden,
lit up the entry to the cocktail reception where life-size
ice-sculpture waiters served champagne. Event virtuoso Ben Bourgeois of
J. Ben Bourgeois Productions called the party itself a contemporary art
installation and he knows what that means. Just to create the “wrapper”
for the dinner party, he brought in a 22,000-square-foot steel frame
and covered the interior walls, tables, chairs and 12 massive light
cubes with white Ultrasuede. All of the surfaces served as screens for
the evening’s entertainment.
The 72,000-square-foot Broad Contemporary Art Museum building was
designed by Renzo Piano whose work includes Paris’s Pompidou Centre and
the New York Times headquarters. The initial 160-piece exhibition
includes works by Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons. By Tuija Seipell
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A Museum Opening - L.A 
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