The Broad museum in Los Angeles will send 164 works to the Fondation Louis Vuitton, in Paris. It will be the most extensive exhibition the institution has ever mounted outside of Los Angeles. The show will run from April 21 through August 30 of next year. The art will return for the opening of the museum’s $100 million, 55,000-square-foot expansion, set to be finished ahead of the 2028 Summer Olympics.
After the expansion, the Broad will have 70 percent more gallery space. The institution will not close down during construction. The third floor will shut down in its entirety late next year, but the ground floor will remain fully open, at least for all of next year. The Broad will also enter into a partnership with Art + Practice, a nonprofit arts and education foundation cofounded by Mark Bradford. The organization regularly partners with museums to display exhibitions. It will share work and resources with the Broad for at least two years.
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“It’s been my directive to the architects, the construction team and our internal team that we would do absolutely everything we could to keep our galleries at the Broad museum as open as possible,” said Broad founding director and president Joanne Heyler in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.
During its time in Paris, the Broad collection will occupy nearly all of the Fondation Louis Vuitton. It will feature some of the institution’s most prized pieces, including work by John Ahearn, Rigoberto Torres, Takashi Murakami, William Kentridge, John Baldessari, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Bradford, Chris Burden, Jack Goldstein, Mark Grotjahn, Keith Haring, Toba Khedoori, Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, Roy Lichtenstein, Glenn Ligon, Julie Mehretu, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Yayoi Kusama, Kara Walker, and Andy Warhol. The Broad has recently acquired work by L.A. artists like Sayre Gomez, Lauren Halsey, Patrick Martinez, and Laura Owens. Work by these artists will also go to Paris.