Full Coverage: Your guide to the Broad -- L.A.’s newest art museum
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One of Eli Broad’s goals in building his namesake contemporary art museum in downtown Los Angeles was to help make a stretch of Grand Avenue a premier destination.
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In the skewed perspective of a longtime art writer, it felt like a historic moment.
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The nude in the silver frame calls no attention to herself amid the colors and splashes of Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg and other 20th century masters hanging in a well-lighted house beyond the pepper trees.
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For Elizabeth Diller, the one-minute escalator ride from the lobby of the new Broad museum to the building’s third-floor gallery represents the end of a very long journey.
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One of the first artworks visitors see inside the new Broad museum is a sculpture that could be taken as a nod to “Urban Light,” Chris Burden’s outdoor array of old-time streetlights across town that has greeted visitors to the Los Angleles County Museum of Art since 2008.
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Anticipation — and some unexpected drama — marked the moments before the Broad art museum in downtown Los Angeles swung open its doors to the public Sunday morning for the first time.
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What: Inaugural exhibition will feature works by more than 60 artists, including John Baldessari, Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, Jasper Johns, Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Mark Bradford, Jeff Koons and Roy Lichtenstein.
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Eli Broad has been getting his papers in order -- all 19 cartons of them.
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After Thursday’s night’s black-tie gala opening for 700 at the new Broad museum, what could possibly come next?
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Eli and Edythe Broad wrapped the front of their new contemporary art museum with two 88-foot-long red ribbons to present it officially to the Los Angeles public on Friday.
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A parade of tiny paper sculptures, all re-creations of cultural institutions along Grand Avenue, glowed atop the dinner tables Thursday night at the black-tie gala for the new Broad museum — fitting as the evening was as much a celebration of downtown L.A., particularly the Grand Avenue corridor, as it was an inauguration of Eli and Edythe Broad’s long-awaited museum of contemporary art.
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John Corrigan, assistant managing editor for arts and entertainment, takes you to the Broad museum’s opening gala in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday night.
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Explore photos of the new Broad museum, its interior spaces and some of the artworks presented there.
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Hector Garcia is the Mr. Miyagi of window washing.
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At nearly all museums, the treasures on public display are but a small fraction of the riches within.
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Visitors won’t have to set foot inside the new Broad museum in downtown Los Angeles before seeing an interesting piece of modern art.
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Calling contemporary art an “important social, political and economic commentary on the way we live,” philanthropist Eli Broad welcomed more than 500 members of the media from around the globe Wednesday morning to a press preview of the new Los Angeles museum bearing his name.
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The opening of the Broad museum on Sept. 20 will complete a 36-year bank shot in which founder Eli Broad bounced from one major L.A. art museum to another, with controversy at every stop, before concluding that the collection of contemporary art he has amassed with his wife, Edythe, should have a home of its own.
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Art world stars, Hollywood A-listers and political power players will collide Thursday evening when the Broad museum stages its long-awaited, opening-night gala.
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For years, local leaders have worked to transform upper Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles into a major cultural and tourist destination — to mixed degrees of success.
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When the Broad museum in downtown Los Angeles officially opens on Sept. 20, visitors will be treated to a selection of more than 250 works of contemporary art culled from the private collection of founders Eli and Edythe Broad, museum officials will announce on Friday.
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Joanne Heyler steps off the long escalator that runs through the belly and onto the third floor of the cavernous new Broad museum in downtown L.A.
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The Broad museum announced some operational nuts and bolts Wednesday — opening hours, advance ticketing, parking rates and such — for the $140-million contemporary art showcase opening Sept. 20.
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Tim Hollingsworth says his new restaurant, opening next door to Eli Broad’s new art museum on Bunker Hill downtown, may be part of the museum complex, but he doesn’t think of it as a museum restaurant.
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The nearly completed Broad museum in downtown Los Angeles resembles a giant, milky honeycomb, so it was appropriate that on Sunday the place buzzed with activity.
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The $140-million Broad Museum doesn’t officially open until Sept. 20, but on Sunday it’s set to welcome visitors for a sneak peek of its top-floor gallery.
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The Broad museum, in preparation for its fall opening in downtown Los Angeles, announced Tuesday that it has beefed up its collection of postwar and contemporary art with the acquisition of more than 50 new works.
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As construction continues on the downtown Los Angeles museum Eli Broad and his wife, Edythe, have dubbed the Broad, the couple were due to give a look inside in a “hard-hat tour” Tuesday for news media and invited guests.
