Come for the Jeff Koons living sculpture, stay for the wine: A map of LACMA's David Geffen Galleries

Los Angeles is getting a brand-new taste playground successful the 3.5-acre nationalist parkland surrounding Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s David Geffen Galleries. The caller campus, with its outdoor drinking and eating options and landscaped sculpture garden, is meant to beryllium a portion of the city, truthful ft postulation is expected and welcome. The 360-degree windows that ringing designer Peter Zumthor’s 347,500-square-foot gathering let you to drawback glimpses of the interior, and those wrong tin spot you — making your motions, your journey, your day, integral to the creation of the place. So person immoderate fun!

You don’t request to bargain a summons to instrumentality successful immoderate large nationalist art. You whitethorn person a cardinal pictures of your household successful Chris Burden’s “Urban Light,” but present you tin crouch earlier Jeff Koons’ monolithic topiary sculpture “Split-Rocker,” with its colorful riot of autochthonal blooms; oregon motorboat yourself up to an alien vessel wrong Shio Kusaka’s “Beam.” Don’t miss pondering the enigma of Pedro Reyes’ “Tlali” oregon catching the mist from Alexander Calder’s playful fountain “Three Quintains (Hello Girls).”

Stop for a latte astatine the cafe beside the second installation, enjoying the caffeine unreserved astatine an outdoor array with presumption of the La Brea Tar Pits, oregon drawback luncheon astatine the edifice lodging Sarah Rosalena’s woven wonderment “Threading the Boundless: Omnidirectional Terrain.” Looking for thing stronger? Make the trek crossed Wilshire Boulevard to the vino bar, and ticker a movie oregon peculiar impermanent talker successful the museum’s caller 300-seat theater.

However you’d similar your time to unfold, see this representation your useful guide.

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Galleries
1. Resnick Pavilion
2. BCAM

Installations
5. Michael Heizer’s Levitated Mass
6. Robert Irwin’s Primal Palm Garden
7. Sarah Rosalena’s Threading the Boundless: Omnidirectional Terrain (2025)
8. Chris Burden’s Urban Light
9. Tony Smith’s Smoke

Amenities
16. Smidt Welcome Plaza & Ticket Office
17. Restaurant
18. LACMA Store

In the neighborhood
23. Academy Museum
25. Wilshire/Fairfax Metro Line  (Naomi Otsu / For The Times)

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Galleries
3. David Geffen Galleries
4. Pavilion for Japanese Art

Installations
10. Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Sculpture Garden
11. Pedro Reyes’ Tlali
12. Mariana Castillo Deball’s Feathered Changes
13. Alexander Calder’s Three Quintains (Hello Girls)
14. Shio Kusaka’s Beam
15. Jeff Koons’ Split-Rocker

Amenities
19. W.M. Keck Education Center
20. LACMA Cafe
21. Wine Bar
22. Theater

In the neighborhood
24. La Brea Tar Pits and Columbian Mammoths  (Naomi Otsu / For The Times)