As the article states, "ancient Greek sculptures, Indonesian batiks, old master paintings and midcentury automobiles presented on equal footing." Pretending that mediocre and trivial artworks are exactly as important as great and masterly artworks is the same tired, even exhausted, narrative that our worthless cultural institutions have been pushing for decades.
It's entirely predictable that the feather-brained progressives in charge of LACMA would celebrate the elimination of all the frameworks and categories that allow for actual understanding of artwork in its specific historical context, in favor of an empty and meaningless "equality."
It's why progressives are determined to eliminate all of the orders and structures that give life meaning and integrity -- [because] they stand in the way of "equality." Also not surprising that this lavish new building is simply a shapeless, ugly, concrete blob.
What a pathetic and exhausted civilization.