Berggruen Institute, 'Condemned to Be Modern'

Hosted by Frances Anderton Sep. 05, 2017

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)

From this Episode:

Berggruen Institute: Herzog & de Meuron's 'secular monastery'

A rendering of the Berggruen Institute in the Santa Monica Mountains Image courtesy of Herzog & de Meuron There's an ambitious plan for a site high in the Santa Monica...

21 min

Condemned to Be Modern

Alexandre Arrechea, Havana, 2015 Image courtesy Galeria Nara Roesle In the late 1950s, the art critic Mario Pedrosa said that Brazilians were condemned to be modern. He...

6 min

Credits

Host:
Frances Anderton

Producers:
Frances Anderton, Avishay Artsy