The Broad

• The Broad website. Full of information!

Across the street from MOCA and across a different street from Disney Hall Where LA Phil Plays, The Broad offers well-known approximately mid-century conceived and born in the USA art. I also learned about and enjoyed some less familiar (translation: previously unknown to me) paintings, and I discovered Japanese artist Takashi Murakami whose work I might have seen had my life not had such a long ellipsis. Or maybe not. That remains in the grace-filled "I'll never know" category.

I'm blogging some of my favorites.

Ed Ruscha

• Angry Because It's Plaster Not Milk, 1965
• Psycho Spaghetti Western #5, 2010
• Heavy Industry, 1962
• Bloated Empire, 1996-1997

Roy Lichtenstein

• Female Figure, 1979
• Purist Still Life, 1976
• Perfect Painting, 1986
• Imperfect Painting, 1986
• Non-Objective I, 1964

Robert Rauschenberg

• Untitled, 1965

Jasper Johns

• Flag, 1967

The series has become sufficiently famous to qualify as iconic, and this isn't my favorite pair of soup cans by Andy Warhol, but they're here because of the irresistible titles:

• Small Torn Campbell's Soup Can (Pepper Pot), 1962
• Campbell's Soup Can (Clam Chowder Manhattan Style) [Ferus Type], 1962

Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1960-1988

• Wicker, 1984
• Horn Players, 1983

Takashi Murakami

• Hustle 'N' Punch by Kaikai and Kiki, 2009 (detail)
• Tan Tan Bo A.K.A. Gerotan Scorched by the Blaze in the Purgatory of Knowledge, 2018 (detail)

After my art immersion, I had a mid-afternoon burrito bowl lunch at Chipotle. Of course it was really really good, because I chose the ingredients.

My day off ended with a Hazelnut frappe at the Olympic and Doheny Starbucks in Beverly Hills. I love that Doheny Drive begins and ends in a cul-de-sac. And I love that they made my frappe in an old-fashioned glass glass because I told them I'd be enjoying it in the store.