Full coverage: Eli Broad dies at 87
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Eli Broad, a billionaire philanthropist and art collector, played a central role in building such Los Angeles institutions as Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Museum of Contemporary Art before building his own museum, the Broad.
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Eli Broad’s death leaves a conspicuous void in both philanthropy and leadership in Los Angeles.
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Photos: Eli Broad, philanthropist, art collector, builder, created part of the Los Angeles landscape
Eli Broad, philanthropist, art collector and builder, has died at 87.
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Broad had a hand in a Renzo Piano building at LACMA, the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall and his own museum, by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
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Eli Broad stepped in when L.A. hit a low. He changed the city in ways he didn’t always expect.
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He spent millions upon millions on schools, museums, stem-cell research centers. Sometimes, however, he treated his donations more like investments.
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Eli Broad attracted his share of critics. He plowed ahead — donating, demanding, building, and L.A. is the better for it.
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Jeff Koons says his first ‘Balloon Dog’ sculpture came into being only with the patience and pocketbook of Eli Broad, who died Friday at 87.
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Mark Bradford won’t forget his “funny handshake.” Liz Diller called him “curmudgeonly generous.” Artists, architects and museum directors share their memories of Eli Broad.
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LACMA, MOCA, the Hammer — museums had a complicated relationship with Eli Broad. Which partly explains why he ultimately built his own.
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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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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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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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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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In the skewed perspective of a longtime art writer, it felt like a historic moment.
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To an important degree, Grand Avenue is Music Street. Not all of it, of course.
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For this Grand Avenue project, we invited Justin Davidson, the architecture critic for New York magazine (and a frequent commentator on that famously dense city), to cast his eye on the evolving cultural density of Grand Avenue.
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Critic’s Notebook: Broad Collection may borrow prestige from MOCA
