The Broad.Credit Gary Leonard

After a series of construction setbacks, the billionaire art collectors Eli and Edythe Broad have announced that their new art museum downtown will open this year on Sept. 20. The Broads originally expected the building, designed by Diller Scofidio & Renfro, to be completed about two years ago, but they never issued a specific date. (A $19.8 million lawsuit by the museum against the German manufacturer Seele, which fabricated the building’s intricate honeycomb-like facade, is pending.)

Visitors, meanwhile, can get an early look inside the museum, known as the Broad one day this month. Long a fan of vast, column-free exhibition spaces for showcasing contemporary art, Mr. Broad is opening the third floor, a 35,000-square-foot exhibition space yet to be carved up by gallery walls, for a Feb. 15 event.......Continue Reading

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