LOS ANGELES, CA – The Broad is pleased to announce public programming for the upcoming exhibition
Desire, Knowledge, and Hope (with Smog) running from November 18, 2023 to April 7, 2024. Complementing the exhibition drawn entirely from the Broad collection which showcases works by Los Angeles-based artists, the slate of public programs will offer up a series of varying perspectives on the city as a site of creative production. The collected works, performances, and programs offer a dialogue between artists and provide visitorswith an expansive toolkit to consider the city’s past, present, and future.
Tickets to the exhibition and Opening Day Community Celebration are available now at
thebroad.org.
The Broad will present a robust roster of artist discussions, live music, and spoken word performances that explore some of the organic scenes that have been vital to L.A. as a thriving center of cultural production. On November 18, the museum’s East West Bank Plaza will be activated for the exhibition’s public opening and community day, hosting DJ sets by Chulita Vinyl Club, a Family Weekend Workshop, and a selection of food vendors presented in collaboration with Watts Labor Community Action Committee (WLCAC), including Trap Kitchen, Not So Instant Coffee, and Tacos y Mariscos El Samurai. Beginning December 14, Smog Check Thursdays will bring together writers and musicians to enliven the themes explored in the exhibition. The two-part performance series L.A. Intersections gathers iconic artists from the city’s historically significant punk, jazz, and hip hop scenes on January 27 and March 30. A new installment of the museum’s lauded Un-Private Collection conversation series will be held on March 2 with exhibition artists Sayre Gomez and Patrick Martinez, moderated by award-winning writer Lynell George, discussing how their lived experiences of Los Angeles influence their respective creative practices.
Programming Details
Opening Day Community Celebration for Desire, Knowledge, and Hope (with Smog)
Saturday, November 18, 2023
Exhibition Viewing Hours + Photo Booth: 10 am – 6 pm
Family Weekend Workshops + Food Vendors + DJ Sets by Chulita Vinyl Club on East West Bank Plaza: 11 am – 5 pm
Event Location: The Broad, 221 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Food Vendors, Presented in Collaboration with Watts Labor Community Action Committee: Trap Kitchen, Not So Instant Coffee, and Tacos y Mariscos El Samurai
DJs: Chulita Vinyl Club (CVC) is made up of women, gender-non-conforming, non-binary, LGBTQ+ and self-identifying people of color. CVC launched in 2014, with the context of providing a safe space for empowerment, togetherness and to utilize music and vinyl as a form of resistance against the erasure of culture. Each Chulita identifies with their own identity. They are not to be classified as one nationality or culture. Within CVC they individually identify with the following: Latinxs, Tejanxs, Chicanxs, Xicanx, Afro-Latinx and many more. The unifying denominator is that they come together over the belief that EL DISCO ES CULTURA and they believe that is worth preserving and perpetuating.
Family Weekend Workshops: Craft, Create, Celebrate. Create a mixed-media collage inspired by
Njideka Akunyili Crosby, craft a cardboard birdhouse like
Doug Aitken, or design a drawing infused with wordplay in the manner of
Ed Ruscha to make your own artwork to take home. Take inspiration from artworks in
Desire, Knowledge, and Hope (with Smog), iconic downtown buildings, and your own experience of the city to create an artwork that reflects your own personal Los Angeles.
