The Broad Museum’s Big LA Statement

“When it opens on September 20, the Broad will become the city’s second richest museum behind the Getty—its endowment of $200 million is more than the endowments of the neighboring Museum of Contemporary Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art—as well as the latest edition to the developing downtown arts district. Commissioned by the billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad and his wife Edythe, the $140 million museum will showcase and store the couple’s more than 2,000-piece collection.”

Paris Opera Introduces A Digital ‘Third Stage’

3e Scène, conceived by new Paris Opera Ballet director Benjamin Millepied, “includes 18 films in its first batch of offerings. The filmmakers include the French actor-director Mathieu Amalric, the director Rebecca Zlotowski, [etc.] … Mr. Millepied said that the website aimed to produce around 30 new works each season, and to extend to installations, readings and other events.”

Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.15.15

Where did the creative class come from?
Your humble blogger has been absolutely swamped with a cross-country move and writing about pop culture (mostly) for Salon. I hope to never leave CultureCrash fallow for nearly this long.  … read more
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2015-09-15

The Broad Broadsided: Critics Take Aim
No good deed goes unpunished. That adage seems sadly apt when it comes to collector/philanthropist Eli Broad, whose eponymous downtown Los Angeles museum, opening Sept. 20, has already sustained potshots from leading art critics, … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-09-15

Conover Stamp News & When Paquito Met Willis
The campaign for a US postage stamp to honor the late Voice of America Broadcaster Willis Conover has surmounted a bureaucratic hurdle. Maristella Fuestle of the Conover archive at the University of North Texas reports. … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-09-15

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Report: Public’s View Of The Future Of Public Libraries Is Sharply Divided

“The data paint a complex portrait of disruption and aspiration. There are relatively active constituents who hope libraries will maintain valuable legacy functions such as lending printed books. At the same time, there are those who support the idea that libraries should adapt to a world where more and more information lives in digital form, accessible anytime and anywhere.”