Over the winter break, I had a chance to visit family in Pasadena.
It was an incredible visit, highlighted by our visit to the new Broad Art Museum in downtown Los Angeles.
Tickets to the Broad are free, but there is a waiting list…It’s a beautiful building in downtown L.A…
It is also right next to the Walt Disney Concert Hall…
The Broad is not a gigantic building, but the inside is very open and airy…it doesn’t seem crowded at all…
Elevators and stairwells feel like secret passageways…
The collection is amazing! Every gallery had important works from every important contemporary artist from the last 60 years…this was the Warhol gallery…
Rauschenberg and Johns…
Ellsworth Kelly and John Baldessari…
Terry Winters, Chuck Close, and Joseph Beuys…
Roy Lichtenstein and Jeff Koons…
Robert Longo…
Robert Therrien…
Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat…
Glenn Ligon and Kara Walker…
Christopher Wool and Ellen Gallagher…
Barbara Kruger…
Takashi Murakami…
That was just a snippet of everything in the museum…it is a gigantic collection…going down one of the stairwells, there is a window to the rest of the collection in storage…
A few non-art related, but still amazing things I got to see in Los Angeles…
We also went to Amoeba Music in Hollywood…
Some important stars to see…looked for Pee-Wee Herman’s star, but never found it…
We also went to “The Last Bookstore” in L.A…
I got to go on a tour of The Rose Bowl in Pasadena…
And I got to see the actual Endeavour Space Shuttle at the California Science Center…
Joseph Lupo 
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