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The Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion, designed by Renzo Piano, dramatically expands the museum's exhibition space and unifies the western half of the museum's twenty-acre campus.
The single-story, 45,000 square foot structure is the largest purpose-built, naturally lit, open-plan museum space in the world. This fall, it will house a trio of exhibitions that highlight both the diversity of the museum's encyclopedic collection and the flexibility of the new building: Eye for the Sensual: Selections from the Resnick Collection; Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico; and Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915
The Resnick Pavilion is named in honor of long-time patrons Lynda and Stewart Resnick. Mrs. Resnick, a LACMA trustee since 1992, is currently vice chair of the museum's Board of Trustees and chair of the Acquisitions Committee. Mr. and Mrs. Resnick are leading arts philanthropists with wide-ranging charitable interests.
Robert Irwin's Palm Garden installation surrounds the Resnick Pavilion. The palms, some quite rare, come in a wide variety of sizes, colors and shapes. They are set into orderly grids, articulated by Cor-ten steel walls and containers. Irwin has noted that certain cycads chosen for the site are among the first plants on earth.
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