The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center at UCLA - designed by Richard Meier & Partners Architects - is now scheduled to open on Sept. 14. A press preview will take place Sept. 13. 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 UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts. A sculpture by Richard Serra - "T.E.U.C.L.A.," a torqued ellipse - has been installed on the plaza.
The Broads donated $23.2 million toward the construction of a new complex at UCLA that will provide modern facilities for the visual arts programs of the School of the Arts and Architecture (UCLArts), including interactive multimedia technology, studio space for students, updated classrooms, galleries for student exhibitions and public presentations, as well as office and conference space. The facility will house the department of art, the department of design | media arts and the New Wight Gallery.
The department of art exhibition at the Broad Art Center - curated by Michael Darling, assistant curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles - will include works by faculty members John Baldessari, Jennifer Bolande, Chris Burden (emeritus), Barbara Drucker (chair), Roger Herman, Mary Kelly, Paul McCarthy (emeritus), Catherine Opie, Hirsh Perlman, Lari Pittman, Charles Ray, Nancy Rubins (emerita), Adrian Saxe, Don Suggs, James Welling and Patty Wickman.
The department of design | media arts exhibition - curated by Christiane Paul, adjunct curator of new media arts at the Whitney Museum, New York City - will feature work by faculty members Rebecca Allen, Mark Hansen, Erkki Huhtamo, Robert Israel, Rebeca MÊndez, Vasa Mihich, Christian Moeller, C.E.B. Reas, Jennifer Steinkamp and Victoria Vesna (chair).
The exhibitions, which are free, will be open to the public from Sept. 14 through Oct. 26. New Wight Gallery hours for the exhibitions are noon to 5 p.m., Tuesdays through Saturdays; open until 7 p.m., Thursdays. The gallery is closed on Sundays and Mondays. Campus parking costs $8 and is available in Lot 3. (Enter the campus at Hilgard Avenue and Wyton Drive.)