Eli Broad

The Broad Museum Will Be Free to You, L.A.

After giving the The Broad museum $52 million of your tax dollars to build a parking lot, the least the institution could do is let you see it ... for free. See also: Eli Broad Gets $52 Million of Your Money For Parking Garage. That's the deal announced today by the museum's founders, billionaires ... More >>

MOCA to Merge With Pinterest

Beset by financial troubles and a series of staff departures, the Museum of Contemporary Art has announced a surprise move: It will merge with the social networking site Pinterest. Effective today, MOCA is closing its brick and mortar locations, including its Grand Avenue headquarters, Geffen Conte ... More >>

Eli Broad, Austin Beutner To Make Play For Los Angeles Times, Report Says

We told you recently how the conservative, billionaire Koch brothers might be interested in buying the Los Angeles Times. Well, they might have company. The Hollywood Reporter says that perennial would-be Times bidder Eli Broad, perhaps best known as a billionaire philanthropist and art collector ... More >>

Eli Broad: A Conversation With the L.A. Billionaire Philanthropist About His Critics and His Legacy

When the Museum of Contemporary Art shocked the art world last month by firing highly respected curator Paul Schimmel after 22 years on the job, Eli Broad, the billionaire philanthropist and MOCA board member, personally gave Schimmel the bad news. Broad, who founded two Fortune 500 companies b ... More >>

MOCA Fires Paul Schimmel, Chief Curator: Is This Part of Eli Broad's Downtown Takeover?

Update: MOCA has completed its transformation to trendster heaven by contracting the studio of L.A. street-art celeb Shepard Fairey to do all major design work. Details below. Local arts blogger Mat Gleason broke the game-changing news last night that Paul Schimmel, chief curator at the Los Angeles ... More >>

Eli Broad Wants to Buy Los Angeles Times (Again)

First Magic Johnson and Guggenheim Baseball purchase the Dodgers from the dreaded Frank McCourt. Now local billionaire Eli Broad is once again teasing us with the possibility that he could buy the Los Angeles Times and kick its loathed ownership -- the Tribune Co. and its tard of a chairman, Sam Ze ... More >>

Eli Broad Joins Twitter, Starts Blog to Plug New Memoir The Art of Being Unreasonable

L.A. philanthropist Eli Broad joined Twitter using the handle @UnreasonableEli to help publicize his new book The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking, which is being released by Wiley on May 8. He also started blogging at elibroad.com/blog.

Occupy L.A: Top 5 Would-be City Giveaways That Might Inspire Occupiers to Give up The Lawn

Leave it to L.A. leaders to make a half-assed offer to Occupy L.A. in an attempt to extract demonstrators from the City Hall lawn. The city said occupiers could take over the old old B. Dalton Bookstore space in the nearby, subterranean L.A. Mall if they gave the lawn a permanent break. Occupiers pr ... More >>

Dodgers Ownership: Top 5 Rich Guys You Wouldn't Want to See Take Over Team (or Maybe You Would)

Thanksgiving is upon us, so it's time to bow our heads and be thankful that at least somebody in the family has a job, medical marijuana is still around (for now) and a bloody presidential election is still nearly a year away. And, after the dreaded Frank McCourt vowed to sell the Dodgers, we shoul ... More >>

Eli Broad, L.A. Elite, Offers $250K Prize to Charter Schools That Serve Low-Income Kids

New YorkerEli Broad, lover of L.A. art and equality in education.​Opponents of the burgeoning charter-school industry like to paint it as a corporate wolf in "reform" clothing -- stealing money from struggling district-run schools while receiving an even steadier cash flow from billionaires. ... More >>

Billionaire Eli Broad Wants More of Your Cash to Build Shrine to Himself

Eli Broad makes it rain. For himself.​Mama always said the rich don't get that way by spending money. She was right, of course. L.A.'s second-wealthiest man, Eli Broad, has made an art of using OPM (other people's money) to erect a shrine to himself -- a Grand Avenue museum and office -- dow ... More >>

Frank Gehry Calls Eli Broad a 'Control Freak' on National Television

Gehry's Disney Hall.​The star of the 60 Minutes feature on L.A.'s own billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad was ... architect Frank Gehry. Seems like he's the only person in town who had the balls to say what others have uttered off-the-record: That Broad, while infinitely generous, is a pain ... More >>

Mayor Villaraigosa's Friends, Including City-NFL-Stadium Deal Hopeful Anschutz Corp., Aim $1 Mil at his School Board Picks

Mayor V's candidates get $1 million in support.​L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wants to keep his grip on the L.A. school board, and he's got some friends in high places helping him out. One of those friends, the Anshutz Corp., has given $100,000 to the Coalition for School Reform, a committe ... More >>

Jerry Brown Redevelopment Alert: Wealthy Eli Broad Gets $52 Million for a Garage; the Entirety of South L.A. Gets $32 Million

By Tibby Rothman and Jill Stewart Mitch Handsone Jerry Brown goes after Community Redevelopment Agencies. Do they have bigger guns?​In a move that California Gov. Jerry Brown might see as L.A.'s "let them eat cake" moment, the city's Community Redevelopment Agency has set aside $5.5 million i ... More >>

CRA Cherry-Tops Billionaire Eli Broad's $130 Million Museum With $52 Million More, Before Governor Brown Can Have at It

New YorkerAnything for you, Mr. Broad​Now that the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency is on the chopping block, all eyes (including the governor's) are on the final moves of CEO Chris Essel and the Board of Commissioners. Their latest allocation is business as usual for the rich-get-r ... More >>

L.A. Billionaire Eli Broad Collects Great Art Like Some Guys Collect Fast Cars

Broad foundationDoes Eli Broad (with wife Edythe) collect art to show he's better than you?​What inspires rich people to collect masterpieces? Is it art's transcendence, which reaches straight to the heart of humanity? Is it the works' connections to beauty and history in this age of digital d ... More >>

Eli Broad, In Total Non-Surprise, Will Put His Museum Downtown

​Billionaire developer, philanthropist and art collector Eli Broad is putting his modern art museum downtown, finally eliminating Santa Monica from the running, though the Santa Monica thing was seen by most knowledgeable people as a negotiating ploy and not a serious consideration. To be su ... More >>

L.A. County Board Okay's Possible Broad Museum Downtown

Eli and Edythe Broad.​The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved a plan to house Eli Broad's art collection at a museum that would be part of the Grand Avenue Project downtown. The board's okay was the third of four approvals needed for the museum to be built ... More >>

Broad Museum's scandalous math: A $7.7 million land gift to billionaire from broke Los Angeles City Hall

By Tibby Rothman What can $1 a year get a billionaire in Los Angeles these days? Hard bargainer​Evidently, a property worth $7.7 million. According to a document obtained by the L.A. Weekly, that's the value of the prime downtown square footage near Disney Concert Hall that Mayor Antonio Villarai ... More >>

$1 Rent for Billionaire Broad

So much for Villaraigosa's new era of transparency and shared sacrifice

Deal Likely For Broad Museum Downtown

Andy Warhol's 'Small Torn Campbell's Soup Can,' Possibly Worth $12 Million, Is In Broad's Collection.​A deal has likely been struck for Eli Broad's much-sought museum to be located at the very Grand Avenue project the billionaire has been touting for years, according to the Beverly Hills Couri ... More >>

Beverly Hills Pulls Out Of Competition To Host Broad Art Museum ... Sort Of

Eli and Edythe Broad.​The city of Beverly Hills this week sent a letter to Eli Broad notifying the billionaire developer and art collector that it is pulling its proposed site from consideration for a museum that would house his art collection. "The Beverly Hills City Council has confirmed t ... More >>

Downtown Gets Into Mix For Broad Museum

Eli and Edythe Broad.​In news first reported by blogdowntown, a third possible location for billionaire Eli Broad's proposed museum has cropped up indeed -- downtown Los Angeles. While Santa Monica was busy claiming it almost had a deal to host the museum wrapped up and Beverly Hills was rep ... More >>

HuffPo L.A. Gets Off to Shaky Start

Whenever a news media outlet starts, and publicizes, its debut coverage of Los Angeles with a top ten list from local billionaire Eli Broad -- not to mention what's essentially a press release from a big time, local politician ... in this case, L.A. County Board Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky -- you kno ... More >>

MOCA Is Back With A Little Help ($60 Million Worth) From Its Friends

The Museum of Contemporary Art on Sunday celebrates its survival after nearly going under (and temporarily closing its Geffen Contemporary branch) with a 30-year retrospective exhibition.MOCADoug Wheeler, 'RM 669.'​Collection: MOCA's First 30 Years happens through May 3 and features 6,000 pieces o ... More >>

Rap Names for L.A. Politicians

What's in a name? Ask MyRapName, a Web site that automatically generates a rap-singer identity for you after you enter your first name and last initial. We did this with the names of some Los Angeles' leading statesmen and stateswomen -- just in case they require more street cred for their next elec ... More >>

Why New York Hates L.A.: Chapter One

The New York Times last week just couldn't help getting in a little dig at L.A. when it reported, on December 23, on the Museum of Contemporary Arts' financial meltdown. After describing MOCA's embrace of Eli Broad's $30M bailout offer,  Edward Wyatt and Jori Finkel wrote, "The plan avoids a pa ... More >>

Broad's Reach: MOCA to Announce New CEO

By Tom ChristieIt would appear that Museum of Contemporary Art trustees have decided against a merger with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and are going with Eli Broad's bailout plan instead.A new MOCA CEO will be introduced at a museum press conference Tuesday morning.  Broad will join MO ... More >>

In Surprise Move, Moca Board to Turn Over Operation of Museum to Machine Project Gallery

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In Surprise Move, MOCA Board to Turn Over Operation of Museum to Machine Project Gallery

An unconfirmed report suggests that the Museum of Contemporary Art's board of trustees is ready to turn control of the embattled institution over to a small non-profit art space, Machine Project. "Basically, the board doesn't know what to do," said a source with inside information. "This is a Hai ... More >>

Dance Pick: Synapse Dance Theater at the Broad Stage

SMC troupe takes the first dance at the new venue

First Dance

Synapse Dance Theater takes a bow at the Broad

The Trickle Down Economics of the Nation's Financial Crisis

This week, the Los Angeles Business Journal explains how the trickle down economics of the country's financial crisis may hurt LA...as well as some of its wealthiest citizens. Billionaire Eli Broad, who's a major shareholder of American International Group, the insurance company that the federal gov ... More >>

A Lesson in Philanthropy for Villaraigosa

Over the weekend, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa flew into Denver for several days and nights of glad-handing and back-slapping at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. It'll be a good time for Villaraigosa to make new friends, assure old ones, and work on his status as a rising star in national poli ... More >>

Rolling Out L.A.'s Cement Carpet

Downtown's long-promised central park has few trees. "Ugly" doesn't cover it

Cracked Egg: BCAM's Inaugural Show

Hello ... Wrong

Eli Broad's Grand Illusion

While real L.A. goes begging, City Hall pours millions into a plastic promenade

Deal or No Deal

Broad, Burkle, Geffen... when it comes to the Times, whose briefcase is bigger?

Where Did the Love Go?

Mayor V and Eli break up over school reform

Oil On Concrete

The Los Angeles County Garage of Art

Bunkum Hill

Over the past 50 years, the city has tried repeatedly to turn Grand Avenue into the living, breathing heart of downtown, and has failed miserably. Now, a public-private group led by Eli Broad is trying again — with the emphasis on private

The Reformers Are Dead, Long Live the Reformers

L.A.’s teachers union upends the Riordan Revolution in midstream

A Million-Dollar Moment

Off camera, an L.A. school-board candidate admits Riordan and Broad chose her

Broad Warriors

’80s Sturm und Drang revisited

Top of the Class

The inside story of how Roy Romer got the job

Life Without Ramon

Massive changes await L.A. Unified

School Boss Sweepstakes

Urban Legend Watch