The city's urban culture gulch is on the brink of opening a major new art museum — L.A.'s seventh — as the Broad finishes preparations for its Sept. 20 debut downtown.
The flashy new building stands next to Walt Disney Concert Hall and REDCAT and across Grand Avenue from the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Colburn School. The latest project of billionaire philanthropists and art collectors Eli and Edythe Broad, it launches with a 50,000-square-foot exhibition drawn exclusively from its wide-ranging permanent collection.
Unfortunately the show doesn't gel, although many works are superlative.