The Broad Art Foundation

The

Founders: Eli and Edythe Broad

Eli and Edythe Broad are both art enthusiasts, amassing huge collections of several artworks and other masterpieces of classical and contemporary artists and painters, which could be over 2000. Aside from his corporate dealings and affairs, Eli Broad is one of United States’ very prominent philanthropists and, together with his wife, founded The Broad Art Foundation in 1984.

Areas of Interest:

Among the Foundation’s goals is to promote public appreciation for the arts and improve public education and advance the quality of school management, through financial contributions to other organizations, establishment of libraries, and the funding of and lending artworks to galleries and art museums.

The Broad Art Foundation and its Notable Projects/Programs:

The Broad Art Foundation, in efforts to bring art and the people closer, built several and funded some multi-million dollar museums located in major universities and other locations in the United States:

  • The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center in University of California, Los Angeles
  • The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan State University (proposed project)
  • The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, California
  • The Museum of Modern Art in New York
  • The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  • The Broad Contemporary Art Museum (proposed project)

The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center in UCLA is a major cultural destination among art students and enthusiasts. Among the most frequented areas in the Art Center is the Murphy Sculpture Garden Garden, where collections of sculptures made by Alexander Calder, Claire Falkenstein, and Barbara Hepworth, among others, are scattered on a five-acre meticulously landscaped garden.

Eli Broad, a believer in the positive impact of architecture in the development of a city, helped funded the construction of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, which brought in famed architect Frank Gehry to design the building. The Walt Disney Concert Hall debuted in 2003 and was received positively by the public.

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