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Museum Hours Shop Monday Closed The Shop at The Broad is located Tuesday 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. in the lobby and features limited- Wednesday 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. edition prints, books, gifts, jewelry, Thursday 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. The Broad publications, and more. Friday 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. Eat / Drink Sunday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Located on the plaza, Otium Please note that galleries may begin to is a contemporary American close 10 minutes before the end of the day. restaurant by restaurateur Bill Chait and chef Timothy Mobile App / Audio Tours Hollingsworth. Featuring an Make the most of your visit eclectic menu that focuses by downloading The Broad’s on both refined and rustic app. Engage with The Broad’s techniques, Otium merges art and architecture through indoor and outdoor spaces by video, audio, and text. Select utilizing wood-fire rotisseries, a self-guided audio tour and a mezzanine garden, and an go at your own pace. open kitchen. For reservations and hours, visit otiumla.com. Photography and Sketching You are welcome to take Accessibility photographs of the collection for All galleries and facilities are personal use unless otherwise wheelchair accessible. Large-print noted. Drawing with pencil in the gallery notes are also available free galleries is also permitted. Please of charge. For information about do not use flashes, tripods, video access programs, ask any VSA. cameras, easels, or selfie sticks. General Info Visitor Services Associates To enjoy the and Have a question? Ask any Visitor keep artworks safe, please: Services Associate (VSA) you • Keep mobile phones and see throughout the building. other devices on silent Our VSAs can tell you about • Do not touch the art the collection, help you reserve tickets for upcoming programs, • Do not eat or drink in the help you download and navigate galleries the mobile app, and much • Do not bring bags, purses, more. We are here to help! and backpacks larger than 11 x 17 x 8 inches Programming into the museum The Broad’s public programming calendar varies day to day. View the calendar online or on the app, or ask a VSA about what programs are happening today. Quick Facts

The Broad collection continues to grow — adding about one work a week.

Eli and have been building their collection Inaugural Installation Nearly all 2,000 works of postwar and contemporary art over the last five decades, in the Broad collection The inaugural installation features and the collection continues to grow by approximately one are stored onsite in a predominantly chronological artwork per week. With a belief that the greatest collections the 21,000 square feet selection of masterworks are developed alongside practicing artists, the Broads focus of collection storage. from the Broad collection. on the art of their time. One work that isn’t? The installation begins on the Charles Ray’s life-size third floor with works by major With in-depth representations of influential contemporary Firetruck. artists, such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, , artists who came to prominence , Ed Ruscha, , , in the 1950s, including Jasper The Broad collection , , , , Johns, , and Cy Twombly. The Pop art of includes works by Robert Rauschenberg, and more, plus an ever-growing more than 200 artists. representation of younger artists, The Broad enriches, the 1960s — an area of great depth provokes, inspires, and fosters appreciation of in the collection — is represented contemporary art. through works by , The longest artwork in Ed Ruscha, and , the collection is Takashi among others. Moving into the Murakami’s In the Land of 1980s and 90s, the installation the Dead, Stepping on the presents a rich concentration Tail of a Rainbow, which of works by artists such as measures 82 feet long. Jean-Michel Basquiat, , Barbara Kruger, Kara The Broad collection Walker, , Damien includes the largest Hirst, and Jeff Koons. The representation of Cindy installation continues on the Sherman’s work — 124 first floor featuring works from photographs and counting. the millenium through the present, Lending Library including an immersive, nine- The Broad’s freight screen video piece by Icelandic The museum is also home to The Broad Art Foundation, elevator is 20 x 14 x 16 artist Ragnar Kjartansson, as which was created in 1984 as a pioneering lending library feet, and was built to bring well as major works by Takashi dedicated to increasing public access to contemporary the longest single-piece Murakami, , Thomas art through an extensive loan program. The foundation has work, ’s Struth, and Goshka Macuga. made more than 8,000 loans to over 500 and Green Angle, up to the galleries around the world. skylit third-floor gallery.

The Broad collection has the deepest holdings of German conceptual artist Joseph Beuys on the West Coast.

Image credits: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1981, © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat/ADAGP, Paris/ARS, New York; photography credit: Douglas M. Parker Studio, . Jasper Johns, Flag, 1967, © Jasper Johns/ Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Your body is a battleground), 1989, © Barbara Kruger. Quick Facts

T he “veil” is made T he vault walls of 2,500 fiberglass are made of a reinforced concrete Venetian plaster. panels and 650 tons of steel. T he plaza next to The Broad was also T he third-floor gallery designed by DS+R features 318 skylights and features a grove that filter in diffused of 100-year-old northern light. Barouni olive trees.

3 6 million pounds Th e Broad includes of concrete make up 50,000 square feet The Broad is designed by world-renowned the “vault.” of gallery space — architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) 35,000 square feet of in collaboration with Gensler. column-free space on the third floor and Dubbed “the veil and the vault,” the museum’s 15,000 square feet design merges the two key programs of the on the first floor. building: gallery space and the collection storage that supports the museum’s extensive lending activities.

Compared to the smooth and shiny exterior of the adjacent , The Broad’s “veil” was designed to be porous and absorptive.

To highlight the history of the Broad collection and its lending library, DS+R placed the artwork storage front and center. The central mass, called the “vault,” houses the collection and appears to hover in the middle of the building.

During your visit, you will tunnel through the vault —up the 105-foot escalator that takes you straight to the third-floor galleries; up or down the cylindrical glass elevator; or down the central stairs that wind through the vault, providing glimpses into collection storage along the way.

Illustration of the two main components of the building—the veil and the vault. The Shop at The Broad Inspired by the Broad collection and located in the lobby, The Shop at The Broad features limited-edition prints, books, posters, T-shirts, gifts, jewelry, The Broad’s publications, and more. The Shop provides a unique, world-class retail experience through products that celebrate both the building’s architecture and the artists in the collection.

Located on the plaza, Otium is a contemporary American restaurant by restaurateur Bill Chait and chef Timothy Hollingsworth. Featuring an eclectic menu that blends both refined and rustic techniques, Otium merges indoor and outdoor spaces by utilizing wood-fire rotisseries, a mezzanine garden, and an open kitchen. For reservations and hours, visit otiumla.com.

On view on the first floor is ’s Infinity Mirrored Room — The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, a mirror-lined chamber housing a dazzling and seemingly endless LED light display. This experiential artwork has limited capacity, accommodating one visitor at a time for approximately 45 seconds, and requires a separate free timed ticket. To check availability and reserve a timed ticket, visit the kiosk at the entrance to the installation at the beginning of your visit. Lobby The Oculus Hall Galleries Galleries Restrooms Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirrored Room Administrative Offices The Shop at The Broad Collection Storage Windows Restrooms Plaza Otium Restaurant

Otium Restaurant High-Density 4 Cool Collection Collection Storage 13 Storage Storage 1 3 4 5

2 5 2 14 6 3 Main Screen Room 7 1 12 6 Plaza

Workshop and Artwork Prep Elevators Area to Garage Administrative 11 8 Offices 9

10 The Oculus Hall 8 7 Lobby

Grand Avenue

Level 1 Artwork Highlights Points of Interest Level 3 Artwork Highlights

Plaza 1 Christopher Wool, Untitled, 1990 8 Jeff Koons, Balloon Dog (Blue), 1 Robert Longo, Untitled (Ferguson 5  , Bateau de Guerre, 2001   Police, August 13, 2014), 2014 1994–2000 2 Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Can 6 , Untitled The Oculus Hall  (Clam Chowder — Manhattan Style) 9 Barbara Kruger, Untitled 2 Ragnar Kjartansson, The Visitors, 2012 (Dancing Black Butterflies), 2007  Windows into collection storage [Ferus Type], 1962 (Your body is a battleground), 1989 3 Thomas Struth, Audience 4 (Galleria 7 Goshka Macuga, Death of Marxism, dell’Accademia), Florenz, 2004 Women of All Lands Unite, 2013 3 Jasper Johns, Flag, 1967 10 Robert Therrien, Under the Table, 1994 4 Ellsworth Kelly, Green Angle, 1970 11 Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1981 4 , In the Land of 8 Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirrored   the Dead, Stepping on the Tail of Room—The Souls of Millions of a Rainbow, 2014 Light Years Away, 2013 5 Ed Ruscha, Norms, La Cienega, 12 Glenn Ligon, Double America 2, 2014 on Fire, 1964 13 Kara Walker, African’t, 1996 6 Cy Twombly, Leaving Paphos Restrooms Stairs Escalator Dining Ringed with Waves (III), 2009 14 Jeff Koons, Tulips, 1995–2004

7 Roy Lichtenstein, I…I’m Sorry!, Drinking  Baby Change Elevator Shop 1965–66 Fountain

Please note that some galleries may be closed at short notice for refurbishment. Grand Avenue is one of the foremost explore destinations for art and culture in the world. The Broad joins world-class architecture Grand and arts organizations on Grand Avenue, Download The Broad’s free mobile app, including Center Theatre Group, the Colburn accessible on Apple and Android smartphones avenue School, , Grand Performances, or Wi-Fi-enabled portable electronic devices — LA Master Chorale, LA Opera, LA Phil, just search “The Broad” in the app store. Los Angeles Central Library, MOCA, REDCAT, Featuring audio, video, maps, descriptions The Music Center, and Walt Disney Concert Hall. of artworks, and self-guided audio tours, Take time to explore Grand Avenue during the app will help deepen your engagement your visit to The Broad. with the collection and the building. The app’s audio and video tours can be taken as multi-stop tours or individually throughout the galleries. Look for the below symbols in the galleries to find a tour stop. Cultural Organizations 1 Grand Arts High School 1 Need headphones? Stop by The Shop 4 at The Broad to buy a pair of The Broad’s 2 Cathedral of Our Lady 2 of the Angels branded earbuds. 3 The Music Center 6 Temple Street 4 Ahmanson Theatre Take a Tour 3 5 Dorothy Chandler Looking with LeVar Pavilion A family audio tour for kids 6 of all ages, narrated by 7 Grand Park 5 21 award-winning actor, director, 8 Walt Disney Concert Hall and education advocate 9 REDCAT 7 LeVar Burton. 10 Colburn School Artists-on-Artists 11 MOCA 8 A tour featuring collection 12 The Broad 9 19 20 artists talking about artworks 18 by other artists also in the Food collection. Listen to Barbara 13 Otium Restaurant Hope Street Kruger on Kara Walker’s 12 African’t, 14 Lemonade at MOCA 13 on ’s Fountain 15 Water Court at Cal Plaza 1st Street 10 (Buddha), and Sterling Ruby 16 Etchea Café & Bakery 16 Grand Avenue 23 17 on Christopher Wool’s Untitled, 17 Colburn Café 1990, among many others. 24 18 REDCAT Café 11 25 Olive Street Inside the Broad 19 Walt Disney 14 Explore selected works in Concert Hall Café 2nd Street the Broad collection with 20 Patina Restaurant

commentary by the people 21 Kendall’s Brasserie Hill Street who built it — founders Eli and and Bar Edythe Broad and founding 22 Grand Central Market director Joanne Heyler. 23 Vespaio 15 24 Subway Architecture 3rd Street Learn more about The Broad’s 25 Ocho Mexican Grill “veil-and-vault” design concept from Elizabeth Diller, 22 principal-in-charge at Diller Connect Scofidio + Renfro, the firm that /thebroadmuseum designed The Broad. View the @thebroad

architecture tour stops and @thebroadmuseum 4th Street locations on the app. Free Wi-Fi