See About archive blog posts. It’s hard to imagine the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Ahmanson Pavilion without Tony Smith’s Smoke--a monumental, multifaceted sculpture that the space ...

Or from another view it looks like a huge lumbering dinosaur. Smith called his sculptures “presences,” not objects, because they have this sort of dynamic, temporal quality. They change as you ...

Tony Smith’s Smoke has become a LACMA icon since its 2008 installation in the Ahmanson Building atrium, where it animates the transitional space between the museum’s east and west campus. In addition ...

An exhibition of monumental geometric black sculptures by the late American designer Tony Smith on display at Pace ... been expanded by Thomas Phifer, and Smoke at the Los Angeles County Museum ...