Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum set to break ground in spring

Thanks Zane for further silencing the student voice. Today’s meeting was powerful and students stood tall – well done ignoring realities and furthering the draconian practices of our unselfish President.

“Arts and culture are a very important part of creating a dynamic environment.”

Is that so LAS – then why are you destroying the College of Arts and Letters at MSU?

$40 million for the most ugly and out of place building to come down the pike in a long time. Not to mention accesss to it with parking at a premium in the area. I think the money could be spent on more needed facilities or programs even though the Broads ear marked it for that purpose( art museum). I guess when you achieve that much money(Broad) and that much status(ie Board of Trustees)you take on an elite mentality and the heck with the average Joe and Jane and what would be best to serve the interests of the run of the mill student population.

I’m glad it’s called the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum and not the MSU Art Museum, so everyone knows exactly what kind of people can afford ridiculous largesse in the middle of an unemployment depression.

Not a depression anymore now that we have a $40 million dollar art museum to build! All the unemployed students can be hired to help build it. Then, we can pay them back with all the money they used to pay their tuition in the first place. Problem solved. We can call it Cash for Suckers! Think of all the jobs created and saved! Someone call Obama and tell him to build a 40 BILLION dollar national art museum. BAM – recession over.

There is only one word that can describe this building: Awful. I hope the Broads are proud of having their name on the UGLIEST building on campus, in the prettiest area of campus. Your money could have been spent MUCH wiser.

I’m loving this! Glad to hear the museum is back on track… So you whining naysayers… GIVE IT UP, IT’S GOING TO HAPPEN
so you can go back to dousing yourself in beer w/ Beer Pong, or whatever…

… for those of you DUMB enough (ie, can’t/don’t read), the money is private funds so your trashing this project which is mainly financed by a billionaire alum (w/ the rest raised from other private individuals), GET A FRIGGIN’ LIFE…

… and for all you losers crapping on this building as “ugly”, you wouldn’t know art if it hit you in the face… I bet you, right now, not one of you could correctly identify the main styles of architecture that currently exists on campus, yet you’re somehow an authority about what’s “ugly.” What a laugh.

When will anybody listen? It was a gift made by Eli & Edyth Broad specifically for an art museum. They didn’t give MSU $26 million to do whatever they want with it. Why would you expect such a thing? Philanthropists know better than to let go of large sums of money with no strings attached.

Well, here’s the specifics of the donation. Guess I can do some fact checking of my own (seeing as this is the Internet and all.)

Announcement of the donation

$40 million cost minus $26 million dollar gift = $14 million dollars from university. Now since this is a public university and a large amount of in state tuition is subsidized by the taxpayer, we have a moral justification to decide how that money is spent. With tuition rising, we need to examine what value we are getting for our money. Personally, I feel a new art museum, a bridge under railroad tacks and a massive renovation of Brody isn’t worth the increase in tuition that we have to pay.

Ok, all of the 40 billion dollars is coming from private donors 26 billion from the Broads. But the point is that 40 billion dollars is better spent on saving all of the programs that are being cut left and right. We don’t need ANOTHER art museum at this time, (if you hadn’t noticed, economic times are extremely difficult for most of us)

BTW — The two main architectural styles on campus are collegiate gothic and international.

Wrong, you are WRONG.

The reason why this project has been delayed is because they were still working on getting donations for it. This project is completely privately funded.

Yes, the Broads donated $26 millions but that doesn’t mean they are the only ones that gave money for the project. They gave the initial donation and then several donations followed.

“But, a building like this is necessary, not only for the region, but for MSU.”

Really? Kindly enlighten us as to who will benefit from this. Who is going to pay to go to an art museum when everyone is broke? What will this $40 million monstrosity provide that Kresge does not? “Prestige?” Because we know that’s definitely what Michigan needs to recover.

These are the kind of responses you can expect from the hicks of EL. Quick, i think Nascar is on. You do not want to miss the left turns.

Did you just infer that an EL resident could possibly qualify as a “Hick”? You, sir, are an Idiot :)

I come from a little shit town up north. I assure you that I know what hicks are actually like. You do not.

“BTW — The two main architectural styles on campus are collegiate gothic and international.”

Actually, included are such styles as: Queen Anne (Old Botany, Cook), Romanesque (Linton), Beaux Arts (IM Circle), Brutalist (Geography), Post Modernist (Bio-Medical/Physical Science complex) etc… but that’s besides the point…

Fact is people here complain just to be complaining… The goofy comments above from people like “Wrong” and “You’re all Wrong”, like: ‘we need money for programs’ and ‘we don’t need ANOTHER museum’, just show the sheer immaturity and air-headed-ness that infects too many students at this otherwise great school… U-M, Wisconsin, Berkeley or ANY OTHER great school would welcome with open arms this PRIVATE, DISCRETIONARY GIFT gift from wealthy alumni… Here, the butt-head students complain about it!!!

And once again, students show how empty their arguments are that this exciting/interesting architecture would “foul” such a beautiful part of campus, when the Museum is slated to face Student Services, a building most can agree IS one of the ugliest buildings on Campus.

BTW, “student”, thanks again for being one of the lone voices of reason on a SN board.

I have to agree with Townsend and student. Also, yes, MSU already has Kresge, but have you SEEN Kresge. It’s about time we updated our museum facilities. Sure, it doesn’t look like the other buildings on campus and it most certainly doesn’t fit with the architecture on North Campus, but, as was previously stated, it’s no Student Services building, and I think everyone can agree that’s a good thing.

I for one am excited to visit this building when it is finished.

Once again, people, stop relying on secondary or subjective sources of information.

Here is the latest video of what the museum will look like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wa8VMbUJh0

Be objective. The fact that you don’t like it doesn’t make you any more important than the rest of us.

It is a stunning piece of art.

More buildings like this are needed on MSU. Has anyone been to other big 10 campuses? MSU is on the higher end of tuition, but has some of the worst buildings and features of any big 10 school. Have you seen The Ohio State Library…. Nuff Said.

Also i agree, EL is a hick town. There is absolutely nothing in the area.

I agree with the last post on that this building is needed for MSU, but not on the other statements.

Sometimes people think that what they say is true because they are ignorant and don’t know beyond that.

Also, I read some time ago about the OSU library and, actually, it is structurally great but it is not useful. It has more space but less books.

Finally, MSU is on the higher end of tuition but it is on the lower end of appropriations. Meanwhile, OSU, as many other Big Ten universities, enjoy substantially more support from the state.

You have to put things in context.

Maybe I misread the article, but where did they mention this museum was supposed to “jump start the economy” or solve unemployment? We are very fortunate to have a billionaire alumn continue to contribue to the school. This museum isn’t going to effect our tuition or influence program cuts. Nor will the construction at Brody or the new Farm Lane bridge. First, the several retards in the comments need to learn the difference between private donations and MSU’s operating fund from tuition.

I think that the previous commenter implied that EL residents could be hicks. You inferred it.

Also, the art museum money comes from private funds, and whether people want to believe it or not, it’s a good investment. Look around the country and see which regions are flourishing and which aren’t. Arts are a huge part of drawing and retaining the right mix of people to maintain an economy.

Simon underpaid???
I wish I was underpaid at $520,000 a year!

Yeah, well if you provided services whose market value were much higher than that, you could get your wish. As it stands, I’m gonna go ahead and guess that you have neither the PhD, experience, or track record as Simon.

I’d like to been underpaid at $10 mil/year, but that’d require me to be a better pitcher than Roy Halladay. Which I’m not.

Any person that says “nuff said” is a moron.