Time Lapse Images of Smoke

This video describes the making of a pietre dure panel. Learn more about The Gilbert Collection at LACMA.

Courtesy of V&A. The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Time lapse video of the construction of the Resnick Pavilion, which opened to the public in October, 2010.

During the winter of 2011, Director Michael Goven visited the quarry in Riverside, California where the 340-ton monolith was awaiting transport to LACMA.

In this video, filmed while the site was being prepared during the summer of 2011, John Bowsher talks about the physical dynamics of the construction and the process of working with a living artist on a truly massive project. Find out more.

In the fall of 2011, during a visit to the quarry in Riverside where the megalith that will be part of the artwork Levitated Mass, by Michael Heizer, awaited transport, we talked to the crew about the challenges of moving a 340-ton boulder.

The Los Angeles times asked the experts to name the greatest works from the permanent collections of Los Angeles museums. Eleven of LACMA’s permanently held artworks made the Times list. In era, subject, and form they are profoundly varied, ranging from ancient sandstone dryads to Georges de La Tour's seventeenth-century The Magdalen with the Smoking Flame to Vija Celmins’ monumental enamel-on-wood comb of 1970.

The megalith that will be part of Michael Heizer's Levitated Mass began the journey to LACMA on Tuesday, February 28th, 2012. Transport, made possible by Hanjin Shipping, took place over the course of roughly eleven nights, traveling through four counties (Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, and Los Angeles) and twenty-two cities.

During its 10-day journey to LACMA, the megalith that will be part of Michael Heizer's Levitated Mass paused in Bixby Knolls, where local officials hosted a street party to welcome it to town. Our thanks to the people of Bixby Knolls, and those at every stop along the route, which passes through four counties (Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, and Los Angeles) and twenty-two cities.