CIVIC CENTER — Billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad has chosen downtown Los Angeles over Santa Monica as the site to house his extensive contemporary art collection after a decision by the Grand ...

A rendering of the new addition to the Broad Museum in Los Angeles. The expansion will add 55,000 square feet of new construction at the rear of the museum complex, on an unused area overlooking ...

Broad, the philanthropist and art collector whose worth Forbes magazine estimates at $5.7 billion, already has promised both cities he will pay the museum’s full construction cost of up to $100 ...

This summer, Los Angeles art institutions offer both sorely needed aesthetic escapes and deep dives into contemporary issues. There are several career-ranging surveys and historical reassessments ...

Expanding the museum reflects our belief in the importance of art as a resource for everyone and in the vision Eli and I shared for Los Angeles as a world art capital.” The museum has proved so ...

The Broad broke ground April 9, 2025 on a major expansion designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), architects of the museum’s widely acclaimed existing building.