On April 15, 1958, a fire broke out in the Museum of Modern Art. Smoke quickly filled the building and it took firefighters an hour to contain the blaze. A retrospective of Post-Impressionist ...

The multimedia artist Kathryn Andrews lost her Pacific Palisades home and her entire art ... fire spread from his window while his wife was in the shower. “There was a little tiny plume of smoke ...

The museum, which describes itself as the “safest places for art during a fire,” is now in a mandatory ... to maintain a pressure flow to keep smoke from entering the building from outside.

The art galleries are located about ... "Within fewer than 10 minutes of the fire breaking out, we had changed the air handling system so that no smoke would get into the galleries," said Fleming.