What We Can Learn From The Art In Eli Broad’s Vault

“Listen to Eli Broad, and it’s a great sin for museums to have art in storage. That’s why he built his own museum (with 1700+ works in storage). Storage is a fact of life with a contemporary collection, where tastes change quickly. Nobody buys 11 Taaffes thinking they’re all going to be on permanent display or constantly on loan. And nobody knows what art-of-our-time will resonate 50 or 100 years hence. A few of today’s artists and works will survive the winnowing of history. Everything else will be in storage.”