The Broad （Los Angeles）

Curator Ed Schad discusses artist Ross Bleckner’s work Unknown Quantities of Light (Part IV) (1988). Bleckner’s painting blends abstraction with recognizable symbols to create meditations on perception, transcendence, and loss. As the AIDS health crisis began to take its toll on society and on many of Bleckner’s friends and colleagues, his paintings became elegies to […]

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Music has always been a driving vehicle of change in the struggle for equality since the early civil rights and Black Power movements. In particular, jazz was a life force and an integral part of creative expression within the artist community, and much of its influence is clearly displayed in the works of artists highlighted […]

Associate Curator Sarah Loyer discusses artist Kara Walker and a new acquisition by Walker called The White Power ‘Gin I Machine to Harvest the Nativist Instinct for Beneficial Uses to Border Crossers Everywhere (2019). In this work, Walker imagines harvesting racist anxieties and fears with a patented machine. Featuring The Broad’s curators, Up Close is […]

Dr. Todd Boyd reflects on David Hammons’s African-American Flag (1990) and on the global movement for racial justice ignited by the murder of George Floyd one year ago. Invited by The Broad to share his thoughts on this work, Dr. Boyd is the Katherine and Frank Price Endowed Chair for the Study of Race and Popular Culture and Professor […]

“Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.” —Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960–August 12, 1988) The first segment of The Broad’s Time Decorated series, produced by Quincy Jones Productions and directed by Moses Berkson, featured L.A. jazz musician Terrace Martin as well as input from Quincy Jones himself. Martin delved into […]

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“Don’t pardon the skin I’m in / It’s not a sin / Black is the universe / We’re living in” —Jimetta Rose, “Continuum (Sickness)” The Broad commemorates #Juneteenth, the date marking the emancipation of African Americans who had been enslaved in the United States, with Don’t Pardon the Skin I’m In, a video featuring commissioned […]

Curator Ed Schad discusses artist Roy Lichtenstein’s painting Rouen Cathedral, Set 3 (1968–69). This painting is Lichtenstein’s take on both the French Impressionist Claude Monet and the evolving nature of vision and what it means to see through the medium of painting. Featuring The Broad’s curators, Up Close is a series that takes a deeper […]

Developed amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the groundswell of demands for social justice and racial equity, Invisible Sun features works that resonate with this unprecedented period of rupture and unrest. The exhibition’s title is taken from Julie Mehretu’s painting Invisible Sun (algorithm 8, fable form) (2015). While not created in response to these specific events, […]