Laidoff broad museum staffers, most of them parttime, will remain on payroll through friday. But for the times when youre not out exploring downtown, youll live with onsite community amenities like. You can soak up yayoi kusamas infinity mirorred room. The distinctive white honeycombcovered building is located just south of the walt disney concert hall across grand avenue from the museum of contemporary art. The broad museum is bringing colorful crosswalks to. The broad houses a nearly 2,000piece collection of contemporary art, featuring 200 artists, including works by cindy sherman, jeff koons, ed. It houses the worldclass collection of local philanthropist and. The broad is a new art museum that houses postwar and contemporary art assembled by philanthropists eli and edythe broad. Broad curator ed schad, who ably organized the exhibition, has alternated rooms of photographs with eight projectedvideo installations. From the instant it opened in september 2015, the broad rhymes with road became a mustvisit for contemporaryart fans. Eli broad pronounced brode, an insurance and construction billionaire, has amassed a library of more than 2,000 works and his foundation still acquires, on average, a new work every week. The porous, white, corallike exoskeleton appears malleable like a tempurpedic mattress and contrasts with the smooth, sturdy steel sails of the neighboring, frank gehrydesigned walt disney concert hall.
Broad contemporary art museum at lacma the eli and edythe. The museum is home to the 2,000 works of art in the broad collection, which is among the most prominent holdings of postwar and. The broad founding director eli and edythe broad collection the. If you read my spain report or any of my trip reports for that matter, you know tracy and i are not aficionados of contemporary art. The broad, though, proved to be a monumental moment in recent l.
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