Review: The Broad Is an Old-Fashioned Museum for a New Gilded Age
Works by Takashi Murakami on display at the Broad museum in Los Angeles, which opens on Sept. 20.Credit.Monica Almeida/The New York Times
Sept. 12, 2015
LOS ANGELES Traditional art museums are some of the most conservative and controlling institutions on earth. They are built as vaults to preserve the past, and as monuments to edited histories. In the Gilded Age America of a century or so ago, many new museums were also monuments to private collectors Henry Clay Frick, J. P. Morgan, Isabella Stewart Gardner who strove to shape and fix an image that history would have of them, as enlightened power brokers of their day and benefactors to the future.
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