Long Beach Museum of Art Receives $2M Gift, Largest in Institution’s History
The Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) has received the largest single gift in the Museum’s 65-year history and the largest gift to a cultural institution in Long Beach.
The Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) has received the largest single gift in the Museum’s 65-year history and the largest gift to a cultural institution in Long Beach.
Come September 25, dozens of restaurants throughout Long Beach will be donating 20% of your bill to C.A.R.E. But before you carbo-load on pasta at La Parolaccia or dig into the lamb gyro at Kafe Neo, the organizers of the foodie tradition want you to meet your local restauranteurs.
Art lovers and night owls alike can breathe an end-of-the-week sigh of relief as they gaze across the Pacific ocean, drink in hand, and absorb some of Long Beach’s most revered art and music culture as they meander through the current exhibit and get down to soulful tunes.
The moment you walk into Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA)’s upcoming exhibition, The Many Moods of Blues, you are greeted by Laddie John Dill’s Bird Series. The mixed-media piece—an amalgamation of cement, glass, and pigment—is anything but melancholy, the go-to metaphor for blue. Rather, the piece evokes a sense of playfulness mixed with edginess: it explodes off the wall and, like much of the exhibit, offers a view of blue that runs across a spectrum—from aspects of wealth, power and identity—more than relying on a single focal point.
With the inauguration of Risqué {dirty little pictures}, is safe to say that Ron Nelson, the Executive Director of the Long Beach Museum of Art, has finished his slowly-but-surely 180 turn of the museum’s direction.