LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced that Bruce Nauman’s most recent large-scale video and sound installation, For Beginners (all the combinations of the thumb and fingers), 2010, is now part of its collection thanks to French entrepreneur François Pinault’s contribution. Widely considered one of the most important artists working today, Nauman represented the United States at the 2009 Venice Biennale, where he won the coveted Golden Lion. The artist made For Beginners in 2010, which was first exhibited at the Sir Norman Foster-designed Sperone Westwater gallery in New York in the fall of 2010. The two-channel work, screened at a large scale, depicts two pairs of hands with the fingers and thumbs opening and closing in different combinations, following verbal instructions. “This is truly a landmark acquisition for LACMA,” says LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director Michael Go