Eli Broad

Huntington, Getty, Simon, Hammer, Crocker, Menil, Wadsworth, Phillips, Frick, Morgan, Whitney, Guggenheim, etc. -- the list of super-rich Americans who, since the mid-19th century, established museums or galleries to house their personal art collections...

-- Official confirmation: Eli Broad announces that he will build his new museum on Grand Avenue in downtown L.A., with Diller Scofidio + Renfro as the architects. (Los Angeles Times) -- On the hunt: Egypt has arrested a senior culture......

Eli Broad officially confirmed Monday what many Los Angeles area officials and art-world leaders were expecting: The billionaire philanthropist and his wife, Edythe, will build their new contemporary art museum, the Broad Collection, on Grand Avenue in...

Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, whose architectural firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro was announced Monday as designers of the Broad Collection building planned for Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, are artists as well as architects. "Scanning: The...

-- Major find: Archaeologists have discovered the site of what was once an oasis city in ancient Egypt. (Bloomberg) -- Back home: A painting by Austrian artist Egon Schiele returns to Vienna after a lengthy legal dispute. (Agence France-Presse, via......

Money trouble: The much-delayed Grand Avenue project in downtown Los Angeles faces another setback. (Los Angeles Times) New appointment: The Cleveland Museum of Art names David Franklin as its new director. (The Plain Dealer) Languishing: Two L.A.-area...

The dynamic 2006 building designed for Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art contains one serious flaw. Unfortunately, it appears that architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, who designed the ICA, are about to repeat the error in the museum building they're...

Darius Anderson is a well-known player in the high-powered and often-overlapping worlds of California business, lobbying and politics. No stranger to campaign finance, he’s raised millions of dollars for candidates over the years, mostly for Democrats....

Huntington, Getty, Simon, Hammer, Crocker, Menil, Wadsworth, Phillips, Frick, Morgan, Whitney, Guggenheim, etc. — the list of super-rich Americans who, since the mid-19th century, have established museums or galleries to house their personal art...

L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art is interested in running the city-owned Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in Hollywood’s Barnsdall Park, as the cash-starved city government tries to outsource eight arts facilities in hopes of saving about $1.3...

-- Money, money, money: Eli Broad is ranked No. 44 in the annual Forbes list of the richest Americans. (Forbes) -- Big stars: Roman Polanski's film version of the play "God of Carnage" will star Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph......

First it was canceled, and then it wasn't. Now it appears to be in limbo. The future of the Downtown Art Walk, which draws more than 20,000 people to a monthly stroll of downtown galleries and nightspots and has been......