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.
Philanthropist and art collector Eli Broad dies at age 87
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LOS ANGELES - Businessman, philanthropist and art collector Eli Broad, who left an indelible imprint on Los Angeles cultural scene, died Friday. He was 87.
Broad died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center following a long illness, according to Suzi Emmerling, spokeswoman for the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.
A New York native, Broad parlayed a loan from his in-laws into a homebuilding empire with partner Donald Kaufman that began in Detroit in the late 1950s but migrated to Los Angeles in 1963. That company, Kaufman and Broad Home Corp., grew into what is now known as KB Home.
Billionaire Michigan State University alumnus, philanthropist Eli Broad dies at 87
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In this Oct. 17, 2007, file photo, Eli Broad, founder of SunAmerica Inc. and KB Home speaks after receiving the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in Pittsburgh. Eli Broad, the billionaire philanthropist, contemporary art collector and entrepreneur who co-founded homebuilding pioneer Kaufman and Broad Inc. and launched financial services giant SunAmerica Inc., died Friday, April 30, 2021 in Los Angeles. He was 87. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)
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EAST LANSING, MI Billionaire and philanthropist Eli Broad died Friday, April 30, after a long illness at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles at the age of 87.
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In this Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011, file photo, billionaire Eli Broad attends the unveiling of the Broad Art Foundation contemporary art museum designs in Los Angeles (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) Eli Broad, the billionaire philanthropist, contemporary art collector and entrepreneur who co-founded homebuilding pioneer Kaufman and Broad Inc. and launched financial services giant SunAmerica Inc., died Friday in Los Angeles. He was 87.
Suzi Emmerling, a spokeswoman for the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, confirmed his death to The Associated Press. Emmerling said Broad died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after a long illness. No services have been announced.