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The Broad ( )〔Cotter, Holland. (September 12, 2015). (Review: The Broad Is an Old-Fashioned Museum for a New Gilded Age. ) New York ''Times.'' Retrieved September 19, 2015.〕 is a contemporary art museum in Downtown Los Angeles. The museum is named for philanthropist Eli Broad, who is financing the $140 million building which houses the Broad art collections. The museum offers free general admission to its permanent collection galleries.〔 It opened on September 20, 2015.〔http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-broad-opening-day-20150921-story.html〕 ==History== Since 2008, Eli Broad and the (Broad Art Foundation ) had been considering different sites for a museum for the art collection. In November 2008, the news surfaced that Broad had approached Beverly Hills about building his museum at the southeast corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Santa Monica Boulevard.〔Mike Boehm (November 16, 2009), (Cities compete for Broad museum: Santa Monica and Beverly Hills vie for the billionaire's art center as plans expand ) ''Los Angeles Times''.〕 In January 2010, he revealed that he was considering a 10-acre parcel on the campus of West Los Angeles College in Culver City.〔Mike Boehm (January 13, 2010), (Eli Broad and the mysterious third museum site ) ''Los Angeles Times''.〕 Meanwhile, in March 2010, the Santa Monica City Council approved an agreement in principle to lease the city-owned 2.5-acre parcel next to the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium to Eli Broad for $1 a year for 99 years while also contributing $1 million toward design costs. Broad would have paid the rest, an estimated $50 million to $70 million.〔Mike Boehm (May 6, 2010), (Broad says downtown art museum would draw better than one in Santa Monica ) ''Los Angeles Times''.〕 In August 2010, Eli Broad announced formally that he would build a museum in Downtown Los Angeles.〔David Ng and Jori Finkel (August 24, 2010), (Eli Broad says Grand Avenue will be site of new contemporary art museum ) ''Los Angeles Times''.〕 He agreed to pay $7.7 million for a 99-year lease. Officially characterized as a grant, the money subsidized affordable-housing units at The Emerson, a high-rise residential tower next to the museum.〔Mike Boehm (September 9, 2015), (Eli Broad, white knight and lightning rod, gets ready to open his own museum ) ''Los Angeles Times''.〕 The agreement also includes an $8.5-million government share of the cost of the museum's outdoor plaza and government payments of up to $30 million to reimburse Broad for building the museum's underground parking garage. Under that buy-back provision, the garage eventually will be government-owned.〔 In an invited architectural competition for the project in 2010, six architects were asked to present preliminary designs. They included Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and his firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture; Swiss pair Herzog & de Meuron; Christian de Portzamparc from Paris; Japanese duo Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima of SANAA; and Diller Scofidio + Renfro from New York.〔Christopher Hawthorne (May 25, 2010), (Two architectural firms are finalists for Broad museum project ) ''Los Angeles Times''.〕 Diller Scofidio + Renfro were eventually chosen by Broad to design the approximately 120,000-square-foot museum, which includes exhibition space, offices and a parking garage.〔David Ng and Jori Finkel (August 23, 2010), (It's official: Eli Broad will build his art museum downtown; Diller Scofidio + Renfro will design ) ''Los Angeles Times''.〕 In February 2015, Eli and Edythe Broad hosted a public preview of the new building, attracting some 3,500 visitors.〔Kelly Crow (May 26, 2015), (Eli and Edythe Broad Build a Museum for Their Art Collection ) ''WSJ.''.〕 The museum was due to be opened by Broad and his wife on Sunday, September 20, 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Broad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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