Tickets to the Feb. 15 event are on sale now right here.
Downtown's newest art museum just got an opening date. The Broad, Grand Avenue's free contemporary art museum, will open its doors to the public on September 20 with a decades-spanning show from local philanthropists (and architecture expert) Eli and Edythe Broad's impressive collection.
The list of names in the chronologically-presented exhibition is astounding: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly from the '50s; Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha and Andy Warhol from the '60s; and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cindy Sherman and Jeff Koons from the '80s. Apparently the Broads weren't too keen on the performance-driven '70s. Plus, contemporary Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson will have a monumental eight-screen video piece, The Visitors, on display.
We've already seen the museum's veiled exterior unwrapped, but if you're like us, you can't wait until September to see inside. To tide you over, the museum is mounting two temporary sound and light installations next Sunday in its third floor gallery space. Titled "Sky-lit: Volume, Light, and Sound at the Broad" features a Los Angeles soundscape from BJ Nilsen and an after-dark light activation from Yann Novak. Timed tickets ($10) go on sale Friday—that's tomorrow—at 10 am.