THE BROAD

I'm lucky to be married to a cool, stylish girl.

And she takes me to cool, stylish places.

Like LA's newest contemporary art museum,

THE BROAD!

Built by Eli and Edythe Broad,

a couple of sooper crazy rich art collectors

who reportedly buy a piece of art a week.

(most of which probably cost more than your house)

it's quite the spectacle.

The brand new $140 million 

"Vault and Veil" building 

is a sight unto itself.

But the inaugural show

is why we came.

So we dove right in.

Or... up:

The Broad's collection covers virtually 

EVERY

contemporary artist you can think of.

And YES...

many of the pieces are a bit obvious

and/or large scale, gaudy, sensationalist junk.

(Hi, Jeff Koons) 

But I don't think I've been to a show 

that I've enjoyed more in a long time.

And that includes our trip to the museums in Paris!

Here's a sampling of what we saw:

Chris Burden,

the artist who created

LACMA's

METROPOLIS

and

URBAN LIGHT

always has something interesting to show:

Mark Grotjahn

Urs Fischer

There were a number of

John Currin's

distorted

twisty

brilliantly rendered

Rennasiance yet

oh-so-modern

paintings

that I love so much:

There was a lot of

the aforementioned

Jeff Koons:

And a delightful room full of

Cy Twombly:

And so much stuff by every

contemporary artist ever:

Kutztown's own

Keith Haring

Barbara Kruger

Elsworth Kelly's 

Green Angle

(more about him over HERE at Artsy)

Lots and lots of Warhol.

most of it you've seen before.

Kara Walker's

storytelling

silhouettes:

Basquiat:

Robert Therrien's

Under The Table

was enormous fun:

He also does those stack of dishes

thingies:

And if you take the steps down,

you can get a glimpse into

the storage vaults,

where countless more

artsy-fartsy stuff

resides:

There was one piece that totally blew me away 

but I'm saving that for a post of it's own.

So keep it locked here and I'll tell you all about it.

In the meantime,

get off your butt and

check out

The Broad. 

You could use the culture.