Eli Broad shows his hand (and his art too)
By Tom Teicholz at 20 November, 2008, 12:40 pm
There’s an article today saying that Eli Broad has filed papers in Beverly Hills to begin the approval process for building a museum to house his art collection.
This goes back to the BCAM issue — Although Broad contributed to building the structrure for the contemporary art galleries, apparently he decided against giving LACMA the collection, in part, because they refused to committ to showing the entire collection.
This is reminiscent of other collectors, Isabel Gardiner, The Frick, the Barnes Collection, are the good examples, Armand Hammer is the less good, of collectors who are so enamored of what they’ve put together, and of the art they’ve collected that they assume a “take it all or leave it” approach.
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