The Broad Opens Collection Show 'Has the myth been shattered' on November 21: More Than a Dozen Works on View for the First Time, Free Admission
The Broad, on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, opens the collection exhibition Has the myth been shattered on November 21, running through April 4, 2027. Drawn entirely from the museum's own collection, the show spans six decades and a wide range of media, and exhibition tickets are included with the museum's free general admission.
Curated by the museum's assistant curator Jen Vanegas Rocha, the exhibition brings together 14 artists. New acquisitions by Guadalupe Rosales and Hank Willis Thomas lead a group of more than a dozen works on view at the museum for the first time, joined by works from collection artists including Barbara Kruger, Glenn Ligon, Andy Warhol, Leon Golub, Robert Longo, Thomas Ruff, Mark Tansey and Mickalene Thomas.
The show takes its title from Rosales's 2024 work of the same name, which encases the front page of the Los Angeles Times from the immediate aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising in a frame with LED lights and a two-way mirror, its headlines glowing under changing colors. Founding Director Joanne Heyler said the exhibition spans decades of collection artists asking questions about injustices that persist in American life and offers a glimpse of how the collection is evolving.
Other highlights include Hank Willis Thomas's Black Survival Guide, or How to Live Through a Police Riot (2018), which recreates a 13-page pamphlet produced in 1968 for Black residents of Delaware and is printed on retroreflective vinyl, revealing images of the National Guard occupation of Wilmington under flash; Mickalene Thomas's The Charnel House (Resist #5) (2021), which answers Picasso's unfinished wartime painting with overlapping archival images from the Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter movements; and seven acrylic portraits of Nelson Rockefeller painted by Leon Golub in 1976, on view at The Broad for the first time.
The Broad, at 221 S. Grand Avenue, was founded in 2015 by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad. General admission is free, and exhibition tickets can be reserved with free general admission tickets on the museum's website. The presentation is supported by East West Bank, and a full season of public programming accompanies the show.
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