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The Broad is a new contemporary art museum founded by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. The museum is designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler and offers free general admission. The museum is home to the more than 2,000 works of art in the Broad collection, which is among the most prominent holdings of postwar and contemporary a

rt worldwide. With its innovative “veil-and-vault” concept, the 120,000-square-foot, $140-million building features two floors of gallery space to showcase The Broad’s comprehensive collection and is the headquarters of The Broad Art Foundation’s worldwide lending library.

Most portraits put royalty on a throne. Amy Sherald put hers on a playground slide. Kingdom (2022) turns one ordinary ki...
06/19/2026

Most portraits put royalty on a throne. Amy Sherald put hers on a playground slide. Kingdom (2022) turns one ordinary kid into a figure whose presence commands the entire space around him.

honors the Black experience by depicting her subjects in both historically recognizable and everyday settings, at once immortalizing them and reinserting them into the art historical canon.

"The works reflect a desire to record life as I see it and as I feel it. My eyes search for people who are and who have the kind of light that provides the present and the future with hope." —Amy Sherald

Kingdom is part of the Broad's collection. While it's not currently on view in Los Angeles, you can see it now at the High Museum of Art () in Atlanta, as part of the exhibition Amy Sherald: American Sublime through September 26.

Artist Credits:
Amy Sherald, Kingdom, 2022, oil on linen, The Broad Art Foundation

Seven photographs. One road trip. A reckoning with American history that's still unfolding. Catherine Opie's monument/m...
06/18/2026

Seven photographs. One road trip. A reckoning with American history that's still unfolding.

Catherine Opie's monument/monumental (2020) traces a journey from Los Angeles to Richmond, Virginia. Along the way, Opie photographed the American landscape, deliberately blurring each image to place distance and reflection at the center of the work—arriving at a city where Black Lives Matter demonstrators had reclaimed a confederate statue of Robert E. Lee as a site of protest.

"In the first and last image, you're looking at the exact same sunset," Opie wrote. "In this piece, there is this suspended sun that never quite sets on the history of racism in this country."

Though the statue was removed in September 2021, the questions raised by Opie's photographs of the monument remains.


One of the most vital voices in contemporary photography, Opie has spent decades examining who gets written into the American story and who gets left out. This work was last on view at The Broad in 2024 for our Desire, Knowledge, and Hope (with Smog) exhibition and is currently stored The Broad's vault.

Artist Credits: Catherine Opie, monument/monumental, 2020, pigment prints, The Broad Art Foundation.

06/18/2026

Family Field Day: Come Play Multiform is right around the corner. Not sure how to play? Artist and creator of the game Gabriel Fontana () is here to break it down. 🏃⚽

In this participatory sport, three teams compete on a custom playing field where the rules shift and players switch teams multiple times throughout the game. It’s designed to challenge fixed ideas of competition and reimagine teamwork in a fun way.


Family Field Day: Come Play Multiform is a free event co-presented with KCRW () happening outside on The Broad’s East West Bank Plaza (.us). Four days over two weekends of DJs, luchadores, drag, live comedy, warm-up ceremonies, a sports bar, and so much more. All ages welcome, families included. Bring the whole team.

📅 June 20, 21, 27, & 28
🕐 1–5 PM each day
📍 East West Bank Plaza at The Broad
🎟️ Tickets are free. Link in bio.

“Sounds do not make music. When you listen, you listen to your mind. That is where the music is.” — Yoko Ono These words...
06/14/2026

“Sounds do not make music. When you listen, you listen to your mind. That is where the music is.” — Yoko Ono

These words are also the heart of Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, a philosophy Yoko Ono has lived for more than seven decades, seen across instruction-based works, peace activism, film, performance, and large-scale installations, showing how she’s one of the most important artistic voices of our time.

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind is on view now through October 11 at The Broad. Tickets at the link in bio. 🎟️

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Kaikai is pure joy. Kiki is pure mischief. In Hustle 'n' Punch by Kaikai and Kiki (2009), Takashi Murakami gave them a 2...
06/13/2026

Kaikai is pure joy. Kiki is pure mischief. In Hustle 'n' Punch by Kaikai and Kiki (2009), Takashi Murakami gave them a 20-foot canvas to sort it out.


Kaikai and Kiki are two of Murakami's most iconic characters, both of which evolved out of Murakami’s original, central character Mr. DOB. “Kaikaikiki” is a term from 1500s Japanese art criticism meant to denote a blend of refinement and eccentricity, two sensibilities that Murakami pursues in his work and commercial ventures. Kaikai, the smiling white-rabbit figure, represents energy and optimism. Kiki, with three eyes and vampire fangs, reflects chaos and unpredictability. Together they embody Murakami's ongoing fascination with opposing forces, and they are so central to his practice that he named his entire studio after them.


The work saturates the field with their oversized, hyper-expressive faces floating among dense clusters of smiling flowers. Wide mouths, spiraling eyes, and bouncing energy are rendered in the crisp, graphic style of Murakami's Superflat aesthetic, which collapses distinctions between high art, manga, consumer design, and commercial production. The surface reads as a continuous plane of pattern and pop exuberance, masking an undercurrent of manic intensity that runs through the entire composition. Joy and chaos, together at last.


You can see Hustle 'n' Punch by Kaikai and Kiki at The Broad with free general admission. Tickets at the link in bio 🎟️


Artist Credits: Takashi Murakami, Hustle'n'Punch By Kaikai And Kiki, 2009, acrylic and platinum leaf on canvas mounted on aluminum frame, The Broad Foundation. Images are details of the artwork.

Apparently, our building and the art inside are goals. Literally ⚽Wishing Team USA () all the luck as they kick off thei...
06/12/2026

Apparently, our building and the art inside are goals. Literally ⚽

Wishing Team USA () all the luck as they kick off their first FIFA World Cup () match against Paraguay right here in LA.

Heading to the game? Come get your pre-match inspiration at The Broad first.

Not attending? We've still got you. Starting next weekend, The Broad and KCRW () present Family Field Day: Come Play Multiform, four days of DJs, luchadores, drag, participatory sport, and general revelry on our East West Bank Plaza (.us) across two weekends, timed to the 2026 FIFA World Cup. All ages welcome, families included. Bring the whole team. This event is free to attend for everyone.

More info on our website and at the link in bio.

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Supervsn () and The Broad () come together this Juneteenth for a full day of music, art, and an exclusive new collab whi...
06/11/2026

Supervsn () and The Broad () come together this Juneteenth for a full day of music, art, and an exclusive new collab which drops online today.

Join us on June 19 for:

🎧 DJ sets by House Of 73 (), FRIDAY (), and Kailyn Hype () from 12 PM to 5 PM

🎵 Free all-day access to Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind

🎨 Free public tours of the Yoko Ono () exhibition and third-floor collection galleries

👕 The Broad x Supervsn collection is available to shop online starting today, with the in-person debut at The Shop at The Broad () during the event.

Join us as we celebrate the resilience and power of Black communities through music, art, and creativity.

📅 Friday, June 19
🕚 11 AM–5 PM
📍 The Broad
🎟️ Free entry (reservations recommended). More info via link in bio

Every day, our team harvests 500+ wishes from Yoko Ono’s Wish Trees for Los Angeles (1996/2026), brimming with handwritt...
06/11/2026

Every day, our team harvests 500+ wishes from Yoko Ono’s Wish Trees for Los Angeles (1996/2026), brimming with handwritten hopes in more than ten languages, for peace, for visas, for true love, “for things to make sense.” Every day, L.A. fills the branches again.

In Deborah Vankin ()’s piece for the Los Angeles Times (), she describes it as a “prismatic snapshot of our hopes, frustrations, anxieties, dreams and desires at this moment in time.” Read her article, and come add your wish to the trees on The Broad's East West Bank Plaza (.us).

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind is on view now through October 11. Tickets and the article are at the link in our bio.

Image Credits:

[1-8]Kayla Bartkowski (.bartkowski) for the Los Angeles Times

Celebrating q***r artists year-round, and even more so this Pride season. Who's your pick? Tell us in the comments 🌈
06/06/2026

Celebrating q***r artists year-round, and even more so this Pride season. Who's your pick? Tell us in the comments 🌈

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