Balloon Animal The Broad
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The year was 1997 or ‘98, Jeff Koons said. He had the idea for his first “Balloon Dog” sculpture: a Pop piece shaped like a kid’s birthday party favor — except made of mirror-polished stainless steel and measuring nearly 12 feet long.
“Eli stood by the piece and paid for the production, and that’s how the first ‘Balloon Dog’ came into being, ” Koons said Friday, the day Broad died in Los Angeles at age 87. “He stood by the work and made sure it would be finished. Now the blue ‘Balloon Dog’ is at the Broad.
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Eli Broad, a billionaire philanthropist and art collector, played a central role in building such Los Angeles institutions as Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Museum of Contemporary Art before building his own museum, the Broad.
“I say all this because he was a very fair person — accomplished in business but fair. We were under a certain contract for production, but when the cost kept getting increased to get the type of finish we wanted for it and on that scale. He stood by the work. And I’m grateful to him for that.”
Koons, one of many art-world figures sharing their remembrances of Broad on Friday, also recalled a time he was returning from Washington, D.C., to New York.
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“Eli had his plane and asked if I’d like to ride back with him to the city, and I said I would, ” Koons said. “He really wanted me to sit in one of the seats up front, like an assistant pilot. And he was sure to sit me in there and put the seat belt on. It was such a quirky moment.”
Koons found humor in being buckled in by a billionaire. “There was a tremendous warmth with Eli, ” the artist said. “He could be very structured within his business world, but he really had a warmth and compassion for people that was bar none.”
LACMA, MOCA, the Hammer — museums had a complicated relationship with Eli Broad. Which partly explains why he ultimately built his own.
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Deborah Vankin is an arts and culture writer for the Los Angeles Times. In what’s never a desk job, she has live-blogged her journey across Los Angeles with the L.A. County Museum of Art’s “big rock, ” scaled downtown mural scaffolding with street artist Shepard Fairey, navigated the 101 freeway tracking the 1984 Olympic mural restorations and ridden Doug Aitken’s art train through the Barstow desert. Her award-winning interviews and profiles unearth the trends, issues and personalities in L.A.’s arts scene. Her work as a writer and editor has also appeared in Variety, LA Weekly and the New York Times, among other places. Originally from Philadelphia, she’s the author of the graphic novel “Poseurs.”
Deborah Vankin is an arts and culture writer for the Los Angeles Times. In what’s never a desk job, she has live-blogged her journey across Los Angeles with the L.A. County Museum of Art’s “big rock, ” scaled downtown mural scaffolding with street artist Shepard Fairey, navigated the 101 freeway tracking the 1984 Olympic mural restorations and ridden Doug Aitken’s art train through the Barstow desert. Her award-winning interviews and profiles unearth the trends, issues and personalities in L.A.’s arts scene. Her work as a writer and editor has also appeared in Variety, LA Weekly and the New York Times, among other places. Originally from Philadelphia, she’s the author of the graphic novel “Poseurs.”
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