The Edythe L. and Eli Broad Center at UCLA - designed by Richard Meier & Partners Architects LLP - is now scheduled to open to the public on May 20, 2006. Highlights of the opening activities will include public exhibitions of works by world-renowned artists who are members of the faculty in the UCLA Department of Art and the Department of Design | Media Arts. A newly commissioned sculpture - an untitled torqued ellipse by Richard Serra - will be unveiled at this time.
The Broads donated $23.2 million toward the construction of a new complex at UCLA that will provide modern, state-of-the-art facilities for the visual arts programs of the School of the Arts and Architecture (UCLArts). The facility will house the department of art, the department of design | media arts and the New Wight Gallery.
Works by department of art faculty, including John Baldessari, Jennifer Bolande, Barbara Drucker, Roger Herman, Mary Kelly, Paul McCarthy (emeritus), Catherine Opie, Lari Pittman, Charles Ray, Adrian Saxe, James Welling and Patty Wickman, will be on view.
An exhibition of work by the faculty of the department of design | media arts will include works by Rebecca Allen, Mark Hansen, Erkki Huhtamo, Robert Israel, Rebeca MÊndez, Christian Moeller, C.E.B. Reas, Jennifer Steinkamp, Vasa Mihich and Victoria Vesna.