A cultural producer committed to bold, daring, and socially relevant artistic works by a diverse array of emerging and established artists.
“Through inspired programming and direction, Ed Patuto has made The Broad Museum in LA a place for the community to feel relaxed and connected while engaging with the arts...In order for Ed to do this, he has to stay on top of what is happening not only in the specialized world of art but in the much bigger realm of popular culture. It’s an amazing job that requires someone with a range of skills that takes a lifetime to accumulate, along with requiring tremendous curiosity and energy.”
— David Stewart, Ageist
“Ed Patuto, 59: Director of Audience Engagement at The Broad Museum”
“Combined, the roster delivered an often unforgettable string of moments, and it did so while thematically exploring what it described in its notes as mining “the Broad’s investment in ‘downtown’ art sensibilities” that were “inspired by the asphalt jungle...On a broader scale, the expansive array of performers confirmed the need for the kind of hand-picked, modestly sized performance experience mostly absent from our region’s festival offerings.”
— Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times
“The Broad’s ‘Summer Happenings’ shows the need for smaller, eclectic hand-picked bills”
“Even the avenue’s most recent addition, the Broad museum, couldn’t resist the musical pull of Disney. At the moment, it has some of the most imaginative musical programming of any major California museum.”
— Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times
“The audience for his May 19 ISSUE Project Room performance—part of the miniature festival “Cecil Taylor: A Celebration of the Maestro,” with events at Harlem Stage and Anthology Film Archives—was buzzing before his appearance and was riveted throughout his set. It was standing room only; nobody left, and everyone joined in the ovation at the close. The concert had a strong and lovely homecoming feeling. Taylor has been a long-time resident of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, and this, amazingly, was his first public performance in the borough. It was also the most noteworthy event so far for ISSUE Project Room in its new, resonant space at 110 Livingston Street.”
— George Grella, Brooklyn Rail
“The Broad Museum teams with local schools and 826LA, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center, to tap creativity that is too often idled by lack of exposure.”
— Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times
“Before Broad museum opens for business, L.A. students have it to themselves, and the poetry flows”
“The sets on the second of four evenings in the downtown museum’s inventive annual performance series brought Beuys’ philosophy into the here and now...Beuys’ ideas surged to life at the Broad, where music-focused artists including Japanese noise innovator EYE, Georgia artist-bard Lonnie Holley, New York frequency weaver Pharmakon (Margaret Chardiet), German “krautrock” innovators Faust and Miami noise monger Total Freedom delivered oft-brutal assaults.”
— Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times
“Review: The Broad brings walls of noise in honor of Joseph Beuys, via vicious sets from Matmos, Faust, Pharmakon, EYE and more”
“There was something of a perfect moment last month at the inaugural Nonobject(ive) Summer Happenings at the new Broad Museum in downtown Los Angeles. Perfume Genius was performing his fierce '80s-damaged rock-tronic anthem "Queen" when suddenly from another part of the museum the L.A-based experimental troupe Mutant Salon appeared. The group, which does grotesque de-constructions of traditional beauty makeovers, piled into the crowd that was gathered on the museum's plaza with all their misfit beauty on glorious display, perfectly complimenting the emotional rawness of Perfume Genius. It was a brilliant and random confluence of artistic expressions, one that in this context made all the sense in the world.”
— Andy Gensler, Billboard
“How Richard Hell, Sky Ferreira and Perfume Genius Are Improving the Broad Museum's Masterpieces”
“The Greater Body (Shi-Dati) provided an unassuming but audacious counterpoint to more commercial attempts to get exposure for Chinese artists. It assembled musicians and performers operating at the highest level within their own, sometimes self-created, slices of disparate underground Chinese scenes.We can only hope there’s more to come”
— Jonathan Zeitlin, Radii China
“Recap: Disparate Artists from the Chinese Underground Surface at LA’s Broad Museum”
“The Pope of Trash in conversation with the King of Kitsch is undoubtedly a hot ticket. The conversation spanned early art inspirations, family, religion, sex, self acceptance, death and even lawn ornaments. Koons was thoughtful, introspective, earnest; Waters — a.k.a. the Sultan of Sleaze — was full of quick witticisms.”
— Deb Vankin, Los Angeles Times
“Gifts of the Spirit is an ambitious endeavor—a vast expenditure of fiscal and psychic resources whose only output seems to be a collectively authored text. But of course, Athey’s audience left with more than a string of words. This scale of performance adequately matches his reputation.”
— Andy Campbell, ArtForum
