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...LACMA will integrate a cluster of disparate buildings, linking them with walkways, plazas and gardens. Piano's design was in place before Govan's arrival, but he has already convinced the architect to rethink the museum's new entrance and brought in the sort of contemporary artists who helped put his Dia:Beacon on the international map. Chris Burden is readying more than 200 historic lampposts, and Robert Irwin is curating a garden of palm trees. If all goes according to plan, expect a 161-ft. (49 m) crane dangling a 70-ft. (21.3 m) train replica courtesy of Jeff...
Heizer's rock is called Levitated Slot Mass, says Govan, unearthing a photograph of it from his very contemporary office. Across the room, artist John Baldessari's photograph of the New York City skyline doubles as a window shade through which to watch cars whizzing along Wilshire. A wall-size photograph displays what looks like the city's iconic Hollywood sign but is a replica created in Palermo, Italy, by conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan...
...office says, and the same could be said of its occupant. Don't be misled by the movie-star looks, pilot's license and glamorous wife, LVMH communications executive Katherine Ross. "This is a substantive guy," says architect Frank Gehry, who worked with then Guggenheim museum deputy director Govan on the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. "He's got ideas, and he works hard to make sure they get implemented...
...Govan has already implemented plenty of ideas at LACMA. The museum had been without an art expert at its helm much of the past 15 years, and Broad ticks off the tasks Govan took on. "We had to re-energize the staff, rebuild our board of trustees and make an architectural mess a more coherent campus," says Broad. "And we had to raise a lot of money to pay for all this. Michael was the ideal leader to make all that happen...
...apparently took a while to convince him. Trustees say they originally didn't think Govan would be interested, given his high-profile work as Dia's president and director, and the director concedes he resisted their overtures. But eventually Govan decided that he simply couldn't pass up the opportunity, citing everything from the city's ports to its diversity and, most passionately, the vitality of its visual-arts scene and plethora of filmmakers, designers and other creative people...