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.- This summer, the McNay Art Museum presents two exhibitions of works on paper from American artists who helped shape the Conceptual and Op art movements; John Baldessari: California Dreaming and Optical Dazzle: Op Art at the McNay. This selection of works is offered at a timely moment, as two of the prolific artists featured died in 2020, just months apart from one another. These exhibitions also feature a new acquisition and a rarely-seen sculpture. On view through September 5, 2021 in the Charles Butt Paperworks Gallery, Optical Dazzle: Op Art at the McNay investigates the sensation of looking at art. Short for Optical Art, Op art emerged in the 1960s as a distinct style of art that creates the sense of illusion or movement. By the end of the decade, artist Richard Anuszkiewicz (pronounced Ah-nu-skey-vich) was one of the leading Op painters in America. The artists small, jewel-like prints on view at the McNay present color
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You know you’re a big deal when everyone in your field knows who you are just by hearing your first name.
Lots of rich people populate the international art world. But say “Eli” wherever you go in those serpentine precincts, and everyone knows you mean Eli Broad. In that regard he was the art world’s Cher.
He couldn’t sing, but he especially loved Pop art and its descendants, amassing superlative collections of paintings, sculptures and photographs by Jasper Johns (42 works), Andy Warhol (25), Roy Lichtenstein (35), Ed Ruscha (45), John Baldessari (42) Cindy Sherman (127), Jeff Koons (36) and more. When he committed to the work of an artist, he understood the importance of collecting the artist’s work in depth.
Eli and Edythe Broad. Photo courtesy of the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.
Billionaire art collector, philanthropist, and entrepreneur Eli Broad a towering figure in the cultural scene of the United States, and most of all, in his adopted hometown of Los Angeles has died at 87. His reign culminated with the founding of the Broad, a contemporary art museum showcasing the collection he and his wife, Edythe Broad, built together, which opened in 2015.
In his cultural pursuits, business activities, and education and science philanthropy, Broad proudly proclaimed himself “unreasonable.” (The title of his 2012 book was
The Art of Being Unreasonable.) He helped define what it meant to be a 21st century philanthropist, importing the kind of high expectations, metrics, and authority he embraced in business into his charitable activities. This approach, which he has described as “venture philanthropy,” made him widely influential and also divisive.