It has finally arrived, the glowing building filled with all things contemporary opened last weekend, BCAM, also known as the Broad Contemporary Art Museum. The papers and websites have been flooded with news on the addition to LACMA, but this is a big even for Los Angeles and it is necessary to talk about it until the art world doesn’t care anymore and has moved on to another museum. BCAM holds a good amount of the most well known contemporary art and the benefactor of the building, Eli Broad, has no plans of stopping his takeover of the Los Angeles art world. One of the interesting aspects of the new contemporary museum is located outside of the building. BCAM has commissioned prominent artists to create outside of its walls and along the property of LACMA. For example, Chris Burden, famous for his days at UCLA and that infamous gun shot installation, has illuminated the entire building with his piece “Urban Light”, a collection of antique street lamps held in his backyard for the past years. For more information read about BCAM in LA Weekly or visit the new addition at Wilshire and Fairfax

“Urban Lights” at the opening of BCAM (losangelestimes.com)