Local Ladies: Friendship and Fun

Dear Friends,

As you may know, our beloved Deborah is moving to ITALY! Let's send her off in style! Please come anytime during the time because I know some of you may not be able to make it there by 5 - I kept the time longer so come and go as you please - just wanted to make sure everyone could go!

She has been a beloved member of our group for a few years and now we can go visit her in Tuscany.

Let's bid her a wonderful farewell this friday at Happy Hour at Star Leaf, next to Vromans -- this is the most beautiful restaurant in Los Angeles!!

They have a wonderful happy hour that ends at 6pm so let's start the party at 5pm -- it will be wonderful and full of laughter and hopefully not too many tears as we will see her soon over pasta in Tuscany!!

We will be at the bar -- I'll try to get a booth in the back for all of us!!

Cheers!

Anna

For those who haven't been to the Broad museum in a while, this should be a real treat. Tickets are FREE, but you MUST order them yourself at this link. MEET IN LOBBY AT 3pm. If you are late, Ill send my cell or put a message on the platform.

Tickets will be released by the museum at the end of the month, so please check back when the date, Thursday May 8th is open. YOU MUST RESERVE YOUR OWN TICKET, YES REPEAT, RESERVE YOUR OWN TICKET, SO PLEASE DO THAT BEFORE THE EVENT. Link is below:

https://ticketing.thebroad.org/events/84185978-8137-44a7-9774-356133b9997d

Afterward, there will be a dinner at Taix, a nearby french restaurant but that is a separate RSVP and it will fill up quickly as there are not that many spots...I'll post that soon! That is a meetup that is cross-posted with 3 ladies groups, so each group has only 6 spots.

MUSEUM LINK:

https://www.thebroad.org

The Broad makes its collection of contemporary art from the 1950s to the present accessible to the widest possible audience by presenting exhibitions and operating a lending program to art museums and galleries worldwide.

By actively building a dynamic collection that features in-depth representations of influential contemporary artists and by advancing education and engagement through exhibitions and diverse public programming, the museum enriches, provokes, inspires, and fosters appreciation of art of our time.

The Broad was founded by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler, the museum offers free general admission and presents an active program of rotating temporary exhibitions and innovative audience engagement. The Broad is home to over 2,000 works of art in the Broad collection, which is one of the world’s leading collections of postwar and contemporary art.
The 120,000-square-foot building features two floors of gallery space and is the headquarters of The Broad Art Foundation’s worldwide lending library, which has been loaning collection works to museums around the world since 1984. The Broad welcomes more than 900,000 visitors from around the world per year.

### ARCHITECTURE

The Broad is designed by world-renowned architectural firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler. With its innovative “veil-and-vault” concept, the 120,000-square-foot, $140 million building features two floors of gallery space to showcase the Broad’s comprehensive collection and is the headquarters of The Broad Art Foundation’s worldwide lending library.
Dubbed “the veil and the vault,” the museum’s design merges the two key components of the building: public exhibition space and collection storage. Rather than relegate the storage to secondary status, the “vault,” plays a key role in shaping the museum experience from entry to exit. Its heavy opaque mass is always in view, hovering midway in the building. Its carved underside shapes the lobby below, while its top surface is the floor plate of the exhibition space. The vault stores the portions of the collection not on display in the galleries or on loan, but DS+R provided viewing windows so visitors can get a sense of the intensive depth of the collection and peer right into the storage holding. The vault is enveloped on all sides by the “veil,” an airy, honeycomb-like structure that spans across the block-long gallery and provides filtered natural daylight.

The metro goes right there, for the intrepid -- literally across the street. Parking is underneath.

## Directions & Parking

### PARKING

Parking is available under the museum. Enter on 2nd St. between Hope St. and Grand Ave. Rates are $17 for 3 hours with museum validation, and $5 for each additional 15 minutes, with a $27 daily maximum. There is a $17 flat rate after 5 pm on weeknights and all day on weekends. Lost parking tickets will result in a full charge of the $27 daily maximum. Bike parking is free and located on the P1 level. The garage opens at 9 am and closes at 10:30 pm. Additional parking is available at other adjacent garages and lots around Grand Ave. The Broad does not provide validation for any other parking garages or lots.

### ACCESSIBLE PARKING

### BY METRO

The closest Metro line stop is located at the Grand Avenue Arts/Bunker Hill Station—cross the bridge over Hope St. for direct access to the museum through the East West Bank Plaza. The closest Metro bus stations are 1st & Grand and Grand/3rd.

Metro Red Line stop closest to The Broad is the Civic Center/Grand Park Station.

The Broad, 221 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012