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The Art Angle

Carolina Miranda joins the show to discuss what LACMA means for the city and for museums now.

Guests explore a gallery during LACMA's Opening Gala for the David Geffen Galleries at the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Photo: Joe Scarnici/Getty.

Los Angeles has a new museum. Or a new vision for an old one. One of the most important museums in the country, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art , has just debuted a long-awaited new building .

It’s designed by the revered Swiss architect Peter Zumthor . It cost three quarters of a billion dollars to realize. And long before it opened to the public last month, it has been controversial, for a whole host of reasons.…