The Broad has announced its next free collection exhibition, and it asks a question Los Angeles is still answering. ‘Has the myth been shattered’ opens on November 21, 2026, and runs through April 4, 2027, in the museum’s ground-floor galleries on Grand Avenue.
Drawn entirely from The Broad’s own collection, the exhibition spans six decades and a wide range of media, examining how mass media has shaped history, memory and our collective experience of major events. New acquisitions by Guadalupe Rosales and Hank Willis Thomas are among more than a dozen works that will be on view at the museum for the very first time, joining pieces by foundational collection artists including Barbara Kruger, Glenn Ligon and Andy Warhol.
The show takes its title from Rosales’s 2024 work of the same name, a full-length two-way mirror framed in engraved aluminum and color-changing LEDs that suspends the front page of the Los Angeles Times from the days after the 1992 Los Angeles uprising — a page that wondered whether the city would finally confront its inequities. ‘This exhibition spans decades of collection artists asking questions about injustices that persist in American life,’ said founding director Joanne Heyler, ‘and offers a glimpse of how the collection is evolving.’
Like all of The Broad’s collection exhibitions, admission is free, and general-admission tickets are released monthly. Happy City News recommends reserving early: a free exhibition built around one of the defining questions of Los Angeles history is sure to draw crowds downtown.
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