THE BROAD

LA has been buzzing since the grand opening for The Broad last weekend. The Broad is a new museum of contemporary art in downtown. According to the website for the past 40 years, the Broads have assembled a private collection of contemporary art that feature masterworks by more than 200 artists including Jeff Koons, Jasper Johns, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Barbara Kruger, and Roy Lichtenstein. I'd like to add that the name is pronounced BR-OO-ED not like the common word BROAD,  yes I know, I was just as surprised as you are. 

Entrance is free but due to it's popularity you must reserve tickets in order to get in. If it weren't for Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrored Room we wouldn't have gone the first week of opening. That's honestly the reason why we made the trip there. Her installation looks absolutely amazing but unfortunately, due to it's popularity, we weren't even let in. To my understanding, the installation only allows one person to view it at a time so you can imagine how long that'll take since that's what most people want to see. Our tickets were for 4:30 PM on a Thursday afternoon and the Infinity Mirrored Room was already booked for the rest of the day. We will definitely be going back to attempt to get in again. Although we were disappointed about not being able to see the room, art is something we have a deep appreciation for so the rest of the collections were nonetheless exciting to admire.

That same afternoon we also went to MOCA for the very first time. I think I enjoyed the art at  MOCA a lot more but I'm not sure why. Maybe the vibe and the art felt less pretentious than at The Broad? I'm not sure because there were some of the same artists at MOCA that there was at The Broad so... you'll just have to go and see for yourself because I can't figure it out at the moment. 

I'd also like to share that it was my very first time driving out to Downtown LA. I experienced the dreaded LA traffic, road rage, and the disaster that it is when it comes to finding and paying for parking. Not everything went right on this trip but it was a fun experience! I recommend all of you to go to DTLA and submerge yourself in art and maybe some coffee in between museums.  

Thanks for reading! 


PRO TIPs:
-MOCA is completely free on Thursdays after 5 o' clock. Any other day you need your school I.D to pay $6 instead of $12.  
-Most parking lots are $8 instead of $12 after 4 o'clock during the week.

JEFF KOONS

KEITH HARING

BARBARA KRUGER 

MOCA

THOMAS STRUTH

MARK ROTHKO

SHARON LOCKHART

FAREWELL SUMMER DAZE | 2015

It's now September which means summer has officially ended but we have one last adventure to share. A few days ago we shared photos from our desert road trip and now we have a video too! The video below chronicles the entire road trip  with our besties. The trip was a perfect way to say goodbye to our summer daze and now is helping us get through a terrible case of post-summer depression.

Let us know what you think!!

DESERT ROADTRIP | 2015

Remember that time I talked about going on an epic road trip across California? Well this is not that road trip. One afternoon while enjoying the summer daze it hit us--it was all almost over. The end of summer sneaked up on us and we panicked. We couldn't let our summer end without doing something big. So we planned a road trip to a place none of us had been to in a long time : the desert. I've personally been obsessed with the idea of a desert road trip for a long time. I love the blazing heat, the vast emptiness and the landscape itself. After months of dropping hints and casually mentioning it to the $QUaD they finally agreed because they knew it was the perfect way to end our summer. If you didn't know already, Alex and I are college students. As you read this Alex and I are on campus hustling to get our degrees so ending our summer with a bang was very important to us

Throughout this road trip we stopped  in Cabazon, Pioneertown, Niland, and even made our way down to the coast of San Diego. Obviously, we couldn't do something this cool without documenting it in every way possible.

You'll see more from this trip very soon!