Up Close: Keith Haring

Mickalene Thomas discusses her first major international touring exhibition, Mickalene Thomas: All About Love, and the themes that drive her work: family, community, and purpose.

Associate Professor of Art history at New York University Pepe Karmel discusses Broad collection artist Charline von Heyl’s Story of a Panic, 2013.

Curator Sarah Loyer discusses Broad collection artist Cindy Sherman.

The Broad's curator Ed Schad discusses Mark Bradford's Corner of Desire and Piety (2008).

The Broad's curator Ed Schad discusses Ross Bleckner's painting Unknown Quantities of Light (Part IV) (1988).

The Broad's curator Ed Schad discusses Roy Lichtenstein's painting Rouen Cathedral, Set 3 (1968–69).

Dr. Todd Boyd reflects on Broad collection artist David Hammons’s African-American Flag (1990) on the occasion of the first anniversary of the murder of George Floyd.

The Broad's associate curator Sarah Loyer discusses Broad collection artist Kara Walker.

Curator Ed Schad discusses Broad collection artist Jean-Michel Basquiat's With Strings Two (1983), which specifically refers to Charlie Parker.

The Broad's associate curator Sarah Loyer discusses Broad collection artist Oscar Murillo, whose projects often address the effect of global power imbalances and global economies on people.

The Broad's curator Ed Schad discusses Broad collection artist Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s artistic practice and themes of memory, loss, and trauma.

The Broad's associate curator Sarah Loyer discusses Mike Kelley’s Infinite Expansion (1983), which explores the concept of the sublime, an awe-inspiring emotion created by an encounter with greatness of incalculable scale.

Singer-songwriter Devendra Banhart discusses Cy Twombly’s work and its inspiration for his own creative process.

The Broad's curator Ed Schad discusses revolution, history, and uncertainty in the work of Julie Mehretu.

The Broad's curator Ed Schad discusses Thomas Houseago’s imposing 14-foot-high sculpture, Giant Figure (Cyclops) (2011).

The Broad's associate curator Sarah Loyer discusses works by John Baldessari, who tested the structures of art, images, and language. 

The Broad's associate curator Sarah Loyer discusses David Hammons’s African-American Flag (1990), which takes on the complex topic of American identity and ideals.

The Broad's curator Ed Schad discusses Jasper Johns’s lifelong preoccupation with the meanings behind familiar symbols, objects, and images.

The Broad's curator Ed Schad discusses the celebrity and iconography as seen in the work of Andy Warhol.