“I think that if the Broad is to always remain a vital museum, not a collector’s mausoleum, it will need to Broad-en its sights—-developing dynamic programming that views the collection as a springboard, not a straitjacket.”
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See what she did there? Broad-en!!
“I was with Mr. Broad when he was talking to Lennie and did not hear him say that. He also says he did not say that, and I’ve asked her to take down the quote because it’s inaccurate. We are still considering two locations and will not make a decision until after Monday’s…meeting.”
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Karen Denne, Eli Broad’s Spokeswoman, in response to the report yesterday that the Broad Museum would be downtown.
Eli,
Quit playing games with my heart.
xx.
Hyde
Upstanding US citizens, please note: the National Museum of Patriotism in Atlanta closes this week. But surely there are enough American flag-wavers around to keep this star-spangled monument to Uncle Sam open? Sadly not - the institution, whose jaunty slogan is “Come for a memory, leave with a mission”, is the latest victim of the economic downturn. “Therefore, The National Museum of Patriotism had to answer the call of the new economy to find a new way of doing business. The National Foundation of Patriotism will become a virtual museum online,” according to the museum website. A spokesman told local press that the museum will continue to host special events “relating to patriotism”.
“It just burns me that people are saying they’re giving me, a billionaire, $1 a year for nothing, without looking at the public benefit that’s being created…. Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn’t have to pay for it.”
— Eli Broad, who would actually not be paying just $1 but $7.7 million for the downtown location for his museum.
Go-go dancing at the Hammer.
During the Sardines and Oranges show at the Hammer in 2008 they had dancer Falk Hentschel dance on the 1991 piece Untitled (Go-go dancing platform) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres for 5 minutes, unscheduled, every day.
Reason #4,598 that I love the Hammer so much.
But apparently the LA Times thinks that they are?
Eli Broad, Los Angeles’ leading philanthropist, is asking the city and county to give him a piece of property downtown for an art museum to house his collection — a museum he’s offering to build and endow. As they consider that request, the Board of Supervisors, the City Council and other agencies of local government should base their decisions not on what is best for Broad but on what best serves the public. And they should approve this deal.
I sort of stopped following this story a while ago (sorry) because I got bored with the Broad baiting, but I haven’t seen one article or even a quote against Eli’s proposed museum. All I have read is the fight over the location between Beverly Hills (now out of the race), Santa Monica and Downtown (so Deitch can have a friend to play with). I wish they had linked to any sort of dissenting voice so I could feel better about reading this article filled with information that anyone with common sense most people who have an active interest in art already knows.
