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🎟️ Tickets for Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind are officially on sale 🎟️ Yoko Ono needs little introduction. As an artist, musician, and activist, her influence on contemporary culture runs deep, and she has been inviting audiences to imagine for more than seven decades. This spring at The Broad, visitors will be invited to directly participate in many of @yokoono ’s works that transform simple acts into expressions of peace and connection. Help bring the exhibition to life by tying a wish to an olive tree as part of Wish Trees for Los Angeles (1996), hammering a nail into Painting to Hammer a Nail (1961/1966), or contributing a reflection to My Mommy is Beautiful (2004). The artist’s first-ever solo museum exhibition in Southern California, organized in collaboration with Tate Modern (@tate ), offers a rare opportunity for Angelenos to experience a practice that is at once radical, playful, disarming, and hopeful. On view May 23–October 11, 2026. Get your tickets now at the link in bio.

Spring Break is here. Still looking for something the whole family can enjoy? Bring everyone to The Broad, hailed by @timeoutla as “the best free museum in LA.” It’s a must-see this season. Spend time together moving through our galleries that feature work by Takashi Murakami, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Yayoi Kusama, Barbara Kruger, and Robert Therrien, to name a few, some of the most recognizable voices in contemporary art today. General admission is always free. Reserve your tickets at the link in bio. 🎥Video by @drianhuerta

“From the start, Ono’s art was performative and interactive. It was also informed by the trauma of living in Tokyo during World War II, an experience that would feed her lifelong commitment to peace, love and understanding between people and communities,” writes Jessica Gelt for the @latimes in her exclusive announcement of Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind coming to The Broad in 2026. Yoko Ono, the visionary artist, musician, and activist whose work has shaped contemporary culture for more than seven decades, will be celebrated at The Broad in Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in Southern California, organized in collaboration with @tate Modern, London. The exhibition will bring together Ono’s pioneering “instruction” works, participatory installations, key films and videos, and materials from her international campaigns for peace. Visitors will be invited to directly participate in many of the works—transforming simple actions into expressions of grief, healing, imagination, and collective hope. On @eastwestbank.us Plaza, The Broad’s olive trees will become Wish Trees for Los Angeles, a living installation inviting audiences to tie their own wishes to the branches—continuing a work Ono first realized in 1996 in Santa Monica, now returning to the city in a new expression of shared hope. “Ono has expanded the possibilities of art as a force for connection and change,” said Joanne Heyler, Founding Director and President of The Broad. “Poetic and bold, her emphasis on community and activism is especially timely, reminding us that imagination binds us together and can be a powerful source of collective strength.” Opening May 23, 2026 and on view through October 11, 2026, Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind offers a rare opportunity to experience the full arc of @yokoono ’s practice—from her early involvement in the experimental art communities of Tokyo, New York, and London, to her lifelong commitment to participation and peace. 🗓️Tickets will be available in 2026! 🔗 Read the full L.A. Times article via the link in bio.

The Topping out ceremony this week @thebroadmuseum marks a major milestone in the expansion of one of L.A.’s favorite museums. L.A. Dignitaries & museum officials were on-hand to watch @mattconstruction place the final steal beam on the structure that is almost going to double gallery space at the museum. Let’s get into it! Thank you for your hard and excellent work @ibew11 #losangeles #thebroadmuseum #lainaminute

"The marker of a great artist's work is that it continues to feel relevant," says The Broad's curator Sarah Loyer on Yoko Ono. 📣 Announcing the full season of programming for Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, as reported by Julius Miller (@julius_miller ) for the Los Angeles Times (@latimes ). Four events bring the exhibition to life beyond the galleries: ⚽️ In June, The Broad kicks off the summer with Sports Raves: Multiform, where Gabriel Fontana (@gabriel_fontana__ ) brings us a game where teams form, uniforms transform, and alliances blur during, taking place during FIFA 2026. ✂️ In July, two of Ono's most significant performance works, Cut Piece (1964) and Sky Piece to Jesus Christ (1965), featuring the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (@lachamberorchestra ), will be staged live in Los Angeles for the first time at REDCAT (@calartsredcat ). 🎶 In August, Yuka Honda (@eucademix ) guest-curates Yoko Only, a one-night supergroup performance dedicated to Ono's extensive music catalog, including @nelscline , @therealylt , @sleater_kinney , @tuneyards , and @rufuswainwright . 🎭 In September, Honda and Glenn Kaino (@gkstudio ) close out the summer with I Am Yoko, a multimedia musical in development that puts the audience in the shoes of Ono herself. Digital billboards will also launch across Los Angeles on May 23, bearing some of Ono's most enduring declarations of peace, presented thanks to Orange Barrel Media (@orange_barrel_media ). The exhibition opens May 23 and runs through October 11, 2026. For event details and tickets, visit thebroad.org. Special thanks to Exclusive Grand Opening Sponsor and Leading Partner since 2017, @eastwestbank.us 📰 Full article in bio

Today, we celebrated our topping out ceremony, a major construction milestone in the museum’s expansion project. One year after breaking ground, @mattconstruction steelworkers Kristian Garcia and Brett Temple placed the final steel beam on the new building, approximately 90 feet above Hope Street. Designed by @diller_scofidio_renfro , the expansion will increase gallery space by 70%, elevate the museum’s live programming, and deepen The Broad’s connection to Downtown Los Angeles when it opens in 2028, just ahead of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Thank you to everyone who joined us in person or tuned in via livestream. Special thanks to @eastwestbank.us , The Broad’s Exclusive Grand Opening Sponsor and Leading Partner since 2017. We can’t wait for what’s to come ❤️ 🎥@shafik

Tiny hugs, big memories 🍼🖼️✨ From the colorful worlds of Takashi Murakami and Ellen Gallagher, to the whimsical creations of Jeff Koons and the community portraits of John Ahearn & Rigoberto Torres, there’s nothing sweeter than seeing our visits share a museum day with their little ones. Free general admission tickets at the link in bio 🎟️ 📸@aliyah_r.t @mishell_19m @shr00msz @justrude._

IT’S TIME FOR ACTION: TWO WEEKS until Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind opens at The Broad 📞🎶 “The audience makes the work as much as the performer, as much as Ono herself.” — Sarah Loyer, The Broad’s Curator for @artandobjectonline Come step inside an exhibition shaped by imagination, human connection, and the idea that small actions can carry powerful meaning. Opening May 23. Tickets available now at the link in bio 🎟️

This is Robert Rauschenberg’s Untitled (1954), the work that marked the turning point for the Broad collection. In this painting, Rauschenberg layers comics, lace, wood, clothing, and printed matter gathered from everyday life beneath a dense red surface. Shapes drift in and out of view. Fragments of text appear, disappear, and reemerge. Hidden within the composition are pieces of a 1954 New York Times front page, preserved like traces of a specific moment in time. While abstract expressionism dominated the 1950s art world, Rauschenberg moved toward chance encounters, unexpected combinations, and the visual language of ordinary life. His approach helped open the door to the Combine paintings that would soon redefine the relationship between painting and sculpture. Untitled (1954) also carries special significance in The Broad’s history. When Eli and Edythe Broad acquired the work in 1983, they traded a beloved Vincent van Gogh drawing for it. This decision marked a major shift in the direction of their collecting, reflecting a growing commitment to contemporary artists and helping lay the foundation for what visitors experience at The Broad today. You can see Robert Rauschenberg’s Untitled (1954) at The Broad with free general admission. Tickets at the link in bio 🎟️ Artist Credits: Robert Rauschenberg, Untitled, 1954, oil, fabric and newspaper on canvas, The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Collection.

🎨 "As an artist, we're reporters. Our job is to report what it's like to be alive now." — Robert Longo Robert Longo has spent decades turning that instinct into image, finding ways to make the feeling of a cultural moment visible, palpable, and impossible to look away from. His work translates anxiety into form with a precision that feels forensic and visceral. 🖼️ In Untitled (Men in the Cities: Ellen) (1981), a well-dressed woman is caught mid-motion, suspended between composure and something harder to name. No setting, no context, just a figure performing in a void. That blankness strips away circumstance and leaves only the weight of existing publicly, of holding yourself together when the culture keeps pulling at the seams. 🗿 "I always think that drawing is a sculptural process. I always feel like I'm carving the image out rather than painting the image." Charcoal is layered, erased, and reworked until the figure feels built from the inside out rather than drawn on a surface. In Untitled (White Riot) (1982), bodies torqued and dislocated feel less like drawings and more like physical events. Staged from photographs of friends reacting to stimuli, the figures are reactive, unguarded, gesture pushed into rupture. 💬 "What I'm trying to do is find this balance between something that's highly personal and also socially relevant." The figures in Men in the Cities came from Longo's own circle, friends who became stand-ins for a generation measuring itself against ambition, spectacle, and the pressure of 1980s urban life. His private reference points became a shared portrait of an era. 🪜 "The history of art is basically a ladder that we as artists are meant to step on to get a little higher and establish another rung so someone else can step on us." The rung Longo built is still here. His work expanded what drawing could hold, who it could speak to, and what it demands from a viewer. That contribution belongs to all of us now, something to stand on, and maybe build that next step for the future generation. 🌟 Come see Untitled (Men in the Cities: Ellen) (1981) and Untitled (White Riot) (1982) at The Broad. General Admission is always free.

A rush of flags, a convergence of nations, a scene that feels like the world is unfolding all at once. In Congress (2003), Julie Mehretu builds from global motifs to create a composition that has been compared to the entrance of a stadium or the gate of a city, capturing the tension and scale of a major gathering in motion. Mehretu begins with a precise geometric framework, then builds intuitively as the painting develops, adding and removing elements. Some forms remain sharp, while others recede or partially disappear, leaving behind traces that read like memory embedded in the surface. Drawing from abstract expressionism’s all-over compositions and networked lines, the work reflects how cities grow and information accumulates, complex, shifting, and never fully fixed. See it in person at The Broad. General admission is free. Tickets at the link in bio 🎟️ Artist Credits: Julie Mehretu, Congress, 2003, ink and acrylic on canvas, The Broad Art Foundation.

Side effects of visiting The Broad may include: staring a little too long at an El Anatsui, losing your friends to a Julie Mehretu painting, and taking too many photos of an Anselm Kiefer from slightly different angles. No known cure. We recommend repeat visits. General admission is free. Tickets at the link in bio 🎟️ 📸@aline_itshere @muratalla_fav @nguyen.ngvi @vlorenzatto @ha_jinlee