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We can't stop thinking about the Shirin Neshat exhibition @TheBroad . Get your tickets now!

Happy first day of Summer! Sam Francis' "Summer #1," currently on view @thebroadmuseum ☀️ • #SamFrancis Summer #1 1957 Oil on canvas 96 3/4 x 72 3/4 x 2 in. (245.745 x 184.785 x 5.08 cm)

California has the highest number of technology workers in the country, yet 61% of high schools in California don't offer computer science courses: bit.ly/2IQKDpU

Screening microbial communities, the birth of a blood cell and more in @broadinstitute 's latest research roundup → bit.ly/2Imz3nK • 📸 Erik Jacobs

#Repost @thebroadmuseum ・・・ #Juneteenth honors the end of slavery in the US in 1865, when news finally reached Texas of the Emancipation Proclamation, issued by Lincoln 2 ½ years prior. Nearly 100 years later, Norman Lewis’s painting, America the Beautiful, (1960) evokes the KKK, while its title raises the contradiction between the ideal America and its reality. In the face of continued injustice, the notion resonates today. See Lewis's painting today in Soul of a Nation #AtTheBroad! Click the link in our bio to reserve tickets. (📸: @timothynorris )

The Broad has acquired David Hammons' "African-American Flag," and a 50-foot long work by Mark Bradford. Read more about the latest acquisitions 👉 bit.ly/2x3cA8s • 📷 David Hammons, African-American Flag, 1990, dyed cotton ©David Hammons/Courtesy of The Broad Art Foundation

#Repost @thebroadmuseum ・・・ IN MEMORIAM: Broad collection artist Robert Therrien, the sculptor who embraced the world with a child’s-eye perspective, has passed away at the age of 71. Robert Therrien was one of the first Los Angeles artists collected by Eli and Edythe Broad. Therrien’s objects seem very familiar. They are ordinary things – tables, chairs, keyholes, snowmen, plates, and pitchers – but transported, with care, across media, scales, and environments. These objects derive from the artist’s experiences, yet rather than being personal symbols, they are products of a collective memory that he shares with us. His objects are both new and strikingly nostalgic; each one wears Therrien’s sense of time like a new set of clothes. Therrien’s Under the Table (1994) is currently on view. This sculpture is based on an actual table that resided in Therrien’s studio kitchen. Founding Director Joanne Heyler often sat at this very table during her visits to the artist’s studio, where they sat and chatted. Robert Therrien, Under the Table, 1994. Wood, metal and enamel. The Broad Art Foundation. © Robert Therrien/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Robert Therrien, No Title, 1993. Ceramic epoxy on fiberglass. The Broad Art Foundation. © Robert Therrien/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Broad Collection artist Ellsworth Kelly was born on this day in 1923. From @thebroadmuseum : Kelly "was willing to drop traditional painting’s insistence on the square or rectangular frame to pursue departures of vision and experience." • 📷 Blue Red #EllsworthKelly 1968 Oil on canvas, two joined panels 73 3/4 x 161 1/8 in. (187.33 x 409.26 cm)

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard scientists have linked rare DNA alterations to type 2 diabetes, identifying new genetic targets for research and potentially drug development: bit.ly/2ErNHaD • 📷 Jonathan Knowles / Getty Images

Explore the past, present and future of downtown L.A.'s Grand Avenue 👉 lat.ms/2QgkioG • 📷 Downtown Los Angeles around 1962 | Al Monteverde / Los Angeles Times

Our founder, Eli Broad, looks back on the creation and development of the arts institutions that reinvigorated Grand Avenue and elevated L.A.'s profile as an international cultural capital: lat.ms/2Qj7gql • 📷 Rick Loomis / @latimes

This Neuroscientist Wants to Know Your Brain On Art—and How It Improves Learning: bit.ly/2LZjZA7