The Broad opens Has the myth been shattered on 21 November

The Broad opens Has the myth been shattered in Los Angeles on 21 November 2026, presenting a new collection exhibition about media, memory and collective experience. The exhibition runs until 4 April 2027 and is drawn entirely from the museum’s holdings.

Has the myth been shattered opens on 21 November

The Broad is presenting the exhibition as a collection show spanning six decades of artists and media. More than a dozen works will be on view at the museum for the first time, including new acquisitions by Guadalupe Rosales and Hank Willis Thomas. The exhibition also includes works by Barbara Kruger, Glenn Ligon and Andy Warhol.

The official exhibition details for 21 November give the opening date as Saturday, 21 November 2026. The show is curated by Jen Vanegas Rocha, the museum’s assistant curator, with support from curatorial assistant Nadia Estrada.

Media history shapes the new collection exhibition

The title comes from Rosales’s work Has the myth been shattered, which incorporates a Los Angeles Times front page published after the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising. The page is placed inside a frame with LED lights and a two-way mirror, while the words Seeing Ourselves and Has the Myth Been Shattered? appear beneath changing colours.

Other works connect print media, political power and social history. Hank Willis Thomas’s Black Survival Guide, or How to Live Through a Police Riot recreates a 13-page pamphlet made in 1968 for Black residents in Delaware during the National Guard’s occupation of Wilmington. A series of seven acrylic paintings of Nelson Rockefeller by Leon Golub examines political power through portraiture, while Mark Tansey’s Matrix from 1993 considers how printed images can carry several interpretations.

The relationship between the opening date and the building is direct: visitors will encounter a presentation about media and public memory inside a museum whose collection is being refreshed while its wider expansion continues. The exhibition is therefore both a new display and a public view of how the collection is being developed.

A downtown Los Angeles museum built around contemporary art

Founded in 2015 on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, the museum was created by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad. Its landmark building was designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and it houses the Broad collection of postwar and contemporary art.

The museum’s collection galleries include more than 2,000 works, while an expansion scheduled to open in 2028 is intended to increase gallery space by 70 per cent. The new exhibition arrives during that continuing change, but the presentation itself remains focused on works already held by the institution.

The collection’s wider history also reaches beyond Los Angeles. The Broad Art Foundation has operated a worldwide lending library since 1984, giving the museum’s collection an established connection with exhibitions beyond its Grand Avenue home. The exhibition’s six-decade span brings that collecting history into one public presentation.

Visiting The Broad: what travellers from Western Europe should know

• Has the myth been shattered opens on 21 November 2026 at The Broad, 221 South Grand Avenue in Los Angeles, and continues until 4 April 2027.
• The exhibition is included with free general admission. The museum says general admission tickets are released daily online, with a standby line also available.
• The museum is in downtown Los Angeles on Grand Avenue. The Metro A and E lines serve Grand Av Arts/Bunker Hill station, according to the Los Angeles tourism authority.
• Entry requirements depend on your nationality; UK travellers can check the FCDO travel advice at gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice, Irish travellers the Department of Foreign Affairs at ireland.ie.

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Frequently asked questions about The Broad

When does Has the myth been shattered take place at The Broad?

The exhibition opens on 21 November 2026 and runs through 4 April 2027.

What is The Broad?

It is a contemporary art museum founded in 2015 on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles.

Where is The Broad and how do you get there?

The museum is at 221 South Grand Avenue in Los Angeles, near the Metro A and E lines’ Grand Av Arts/Bunker Hill station.