Article: Taking a new route through modern art: as part of its Transformation project, Los Angeles County Museum of Art's collections of 20th-century art have been reinstalled in the Ahmanson Building. As Stephanie Barron explains, the collection has itself been transformed by a munificent gift of 130 paintings, sculptures and drawings from Janice and Henri Lazarof, which includes 20 works by Picasso.(THE AHMANSON BUILDING)(Pablo Picasso)

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In January 2008 the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) opened new galleries for modern art filling the entire plaza level of the Ahmanson Building. The move to the Ahmanson, one of the museum's three original buildings from 1965, has allowed for a thoroughly new presentation of the museum's collection of 20th-century art in 22,000 square feet of contiguous gallery space. Organised according to chronology and geography, the installation presents paintings, sculptures, works on paper and decorative arts, as well as occasional textiles, in expansive, redesigned galleries with dark wood floors, light grey and stark white walls, and dark ceilings ...

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