Geffen's gift is a 'game changer' for LACMA plans: Historic $150-million donation helps shore up museum expansion
LOS ANGELES - Breathing fresh life into one of the city's most ambitious cultural projects and making history as the largest gift on record toward the construction of an American museum, David Geffen has pledged $150 million to a new building for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Geffen's pledge raises LACMA's fundraising total to $450 million of the $650 million needed to break ground on a modernist Peter Zumthor building, arguably the most anticipated new piece of architecture in L.A. since Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall opened in 2003.
The Zumthor building, to be named the David Geffen Galleries, has evolved from a black, amorphous design reminiscent of the
