The Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM) is the centerpiece of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s (LACMA) Transformation – an ambitious program of expansion and renovation.  Designed by Renzo Piano, this stunning three-story museum includes 60,000 square feet of exhibition space – one of the largest column-free art spaces in the US designed specifically for the display of contemporary art.

Transformation
BCAM features an assortment of exhibition areas, including six loft-like spaces, each of which measures 8,500 square feet.These are located on three floors, in two symmetrical wings that unfold on either side of a predominantly glass core.  Smaller connecting and circulation galleries provide additional space to view art. The central core of the building contains a large glass-fronted elevator and passageways that connect to the wings. The main entrance to BCAM is on the third floor, which you access by either an open-air, vivid red escalator that traverses the building’s façade, or by the interior glass-fronted elevator.  Except for the core, the building is clad in Italian travertine selected to complement existing historic buildings on LACMA's twenty-acre campus.

Inaugural Installation
Most of BCAM’s gallery space is devoted to groupings of works by single artists, providing rich representations of some of the most important artists of the last forty years.  You begin your journey in a dramatic space on the third floor, suffused with natural light via a spectacular glass ceiling.  Here, you’ll view works by Los Angeles conceptual artist John Baldessari, the provocative Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, perhaps the epitome of the SoCal artist, Cy Twombly, Ellsworth Kelly, and, finally, the acclaimed pop artist Roy Lichtenstein.

The Broad Collection
LACMA Trustees, philanthropists, and BCAM’s funders Eli and Edythe Broad dedicated more than four decades to building two of the most prominent collections of postwar and contemporary art worldwide.  Engaging a wide range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography, and installation, the two collections together comprise approximately 2,000 works.  Many artists are represented in exceptional depth, often spanning the entirety of a career.

LACMA is located at 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles.  For more information call 323-857-6000 or visit www.lacma.org.