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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new David Geffen Galleries, designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. Peter Zumthor’s freeway-like design for LACMA’s David Geffen Galleries is daring but disappointing By Paul Goldberger The Los Angeles County Museum of Art was founded in 1961 to show the world that Los Angeles deserved to be taken seriously. Like New York, Chicago, Boston, and so many other American cities, it, too, could have a large, comprehensive, important art museum that would gi...