Eli Broad

Spending in L.A. mayor's race breaks records

2013-05-18 20:30:00

Spending in the hotly contested two-year race for Los Angeles mayor exceeded $33 million on Saturday, breaking previous records as unlimited outside money continued to play a dominant role in Tuesday's contest. Candidate super PACs and so-called...

Ratliff holding slim lead in LAUSD race

2013-05-22 00:00:00

The race for an open seat on the Los Angeles Board of Education was close in early returns with Monica Ratliff ahead despite financial support and union backing that made her opponent, Antonio Sanchez, a heavy favorite. In the Los Angeles Community...

Political savvy vs. education skills in L.A. school board runoff

2013-05-17 22:47:00

The race for a seat on the Los Angeles Board of Education pits the political savvy of Antonio Sanchez against the education skills of Monica Ratliff. And when it comes to campaign resources, politics trumps all. Sanchez, 31, has used his background in...

Topless Beatrice Arthur painting part of record $495-million auction

2013-05-16 08:00:00

Did it come with a card attached that says, "Thank you for being a friend"? A 1991 painting depicting a topless Bea Arthur that was created by artist John Currin has sold at an auction Wednesday for $1.9 million. The sale was part of a larger Christie's...

Monica Ratliff's election to L.A. school board is 'huge upset'

2013-05-22 23:14:00

On its face, the election this week of a Los Angeles fifth-grade teacher to the Board of Education was a stunner. Monica Ratliff's low-budget effort included her boyfriend, a film school instructor, as her campaign manager. She had no paid staff and no...

Scouting out Malibu beaches? Get 'em on the phone

2013-05-27 05:00:00

When environmental writer Jenny Price first began scouting for ways to get to Malibu's beaches, she drove up and down Pacific Coast Highway but did not spot a single sign pointing "this way to the beach." Shrubbery obscured stairway openings. "Private...

Three new names on MOCA board

2013-04-10 17:10:00

Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art has appointed three new trustees, including Bruce Karatz, the former chief executive of KB Homes who was convicted three years ago on four felony counts of failing to disclose the backdating of stock options. Also...

MOCA's Deitch to New York Post: LACMA takeover still an option

2013-03-28 14:43:00

Is Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art all-in when it comes to its own independence? The question arises from a recent comment by museum director Jeffrey Deitch in the New York Post. MOCA this week announced the launch of "MOCA Independence,...

N.Y. Mayor Bloomberg gives $350,000 to L.A. school board race

2013-04-24 16:21:00

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg donated $350,000 to the L.A. school board campaign this week, records show. Bloomberg's contribution, which was filed Tuesday, will enlarge an already sizable warchest of the Coalition for School Reform, a political...

Juilliard School honorees include Daniel Day-Lewis, Dawn Upshaw

2013-04-24 06:45:00

Daniel Day-Lewis will soon have a new role to obsessively inhabit -- recipient of an honorary doctoral degree from the Juilliard School in New York. The arts school said it also would bestow commencement honors this year on opera singer Dawn Upshaw,...

MOCA gala takes walk on the wild side

2013-04-21 11:43:00

It seemed only fitting that the MOCA gala celebrating the opening of Urs Fischer's new chaos-skirting show, organized under the "creative direction" of the crazy-making artist Rob Pruitt, would have a Dada sort of anti-logic. In other words, it was...

MOCA hits $75-million mark, nearing endowment goal

2013-04-18 06:00:00

Trustees of the Museum of Contemporary Art say they have reached the $75-million mark in their campaign to establish a $100-million endowment, with $50 million raised in the last month alone. MOCA's board co-chairs Maria Bell and David Johnson said...

Laurent Puechguirbal leaves Carbon Beach in Malibu via a public access path. This stretch of sand is also called Billionaires Beach, where visitors might catch a glimpse of bigwigs such as Eli Broad, Haim Saban and Jeffrey Katzenberg.

2013-05-26 15:48:03

Eli Broad, left, and Jeffrey Deitch in 2010. Deitch, director of L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art, was quoted this week saying a takeover proposal by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is still an option.

2013-03-28 12:59:36

Philanthropist Eli Broad attends a "topping out" ceremony recognizing the placement of steel beams framing the downtown Los Angeles structure that will become the Broad, a contemporary art museum.

2013-01-08 20:59:00