Opening last fall, The Broad’s galleries
The public has answered the call, as
have something for everyone and serve as
crowds flock daily in droves, drawn not
a greatest hits overview of golden-age
only by the art but by performance pieces,
contemporary art—Warhol, Johns, Twombly,
music and lecture events, and even visiting-
Rauschenberg,
they
celebrity selfies. Recently, Adele taped a video
offer in-depth representations of newer
performance of her song “When We Were
masters like Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari,
Young” inside Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Jeff
Room after seeing a Broad-tagged Instagram
Koons, and Cindy Sherman. More recent
photo posted by an enamored Katy Perry. To
stars like Kara Walker, Damien Hirst, Mark
date, about 350 thousand guests have visited,
Bradford, Christopher Wool, and Takashi
and the free-entry reservations are fully
Murakami have also been shown.
booked through early spring. And whether
“There’s no other gallery in Southern
entrants reserve in advance or simply wait
California where you’re going to find a
out the day-of standby line, Heyler