Berggruen Institute, 'Condemned to Be Modern'

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Billionaire philanthropist Nicolas Berggruen has likened his planned research center in the Santa Monica Mountains to a secular monastery. Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron is designing it. What is the Berggruen Institute, and will the building please the neighbors? And in Condemned to Be Modern at LA Municipal Art Gallery, artists from Cuba, Brazil and Mexico examine the legacy of modernism.

Photo: A rendering of the Berggruen Institute in the Santa Monica Mountains. (Herzog & de Meuron)

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Host:
Frances Anderton

Producers:
Frances Anderton, Avishay Artsy