Broad planning Beverly Hills art museum

Eli Broad is talking about building an art museum to house his vast art collection in Beverly Hills. Details from Bloomberg's Andy Fixmer and Daniel Taub (via LA Biz Observed):

The gallery would display works from his charitable foundation and personal collection, an attorney for Broad wrote in an Oct. 20 letter to Beverly Hills City Manager Roderick Wood. The proposal includes offices for Broad's art foundation, which along with a second Broad foundation has assets of $2.5 billion. Broad would like the new museum and offices for the Broad Art Foundation to open in about three years, Joanne Heyler, director and chief curator of the foundation, said in an interview. The facility would house art currently stored or displayed across the Los Angeles region, she said. "There are other sites we are looking at but this is one we are taking very, very seriously,'' Heyler said. She declined to discuss those other sites. "The Broads have had a longstanding commitment that contemporary art works in their collection are seen by the broadest audience.''

Turns out the museum rumor has been circulating for weeks around Beverly Hills. From Curbed L.A.: "Beverly Hills Weekly columnist Rudy Cole drops this juicy bit of news this week: Philanthropist Eli Broad is in talks with Beverly Hills city officials about creating a museum at Wilshire and Santa Monica (currently a Starbucks is on the site) to house at least part of his art collection."

--Shelby Grad

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Comments

[realist]

never happen at that site. traffic way too bad. there was an anti-growth ground swell with the waldorff project across the street at the hilton--same folks (and more) will come out of the wood work to stop this project dead in its tracks. nice thought though, Mr. B.