The LA Times continues to praise the mediocre project by Rem Koolhaas/OMA for the rebuilding of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Smart money says it will never be built. Between the closure of the entire LACMA complex for a lengthy period and LA’s perennial inability to raise money for the visual arts, OMA’s project is likely to run aground for any number of reasons. If Rem wanted to be really radical, he would have replicated the 1965 plan for LACMA by Mies van der Rohe. Instead, we are treated to an ever more exhausted vision of “the new.”