Consensus Past Mr. Dodd's father, the late Senator Thomas J. Dodd, served in a post-World War II capital that contemporary Washington would not recognize.
While Jerusalem is home to Israel's major museums, Tel Aviv is its contemporary arts capital.
The stipendiary system was supported by a legal system that decreed draconian punishments for crimes that would be considered petty by contemporary standards; capital punishment and serious mutilation were prescribed for almost every conceivable offense.
By the late 1970s, Sigmar Polke, the late great German Magus, had settled in town; a few years later his onetime cohort Richter moved there, as well as Rosemarie Trockel and Martin Kippenberger; and by the late '80s, Cologne was the contemporary art capital of Europe, and so cross-pollinated with American art of the same period that it felt like a suburb of SoHo.
The arrival of this troika, a seemingly unbeatable combination, and the decision of prominent New York galleries like Gagosian and Matthew Marks to establish outposts in Los Angeles (Mr. Marks's gallery will open next winter), did much to bolster Mr. Broad's grand assertion that "Los Angeles could become the contemporary art capital of the world".
Mr. Broad said his goal was to turn Los Angeles, where he has lived for more than 40 years, into the "contemporary art capital of the world" and he wants to clean up the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's campus, which he calls an "architectural mess".
Over the past two decades, and especially since the 2008 Olympics, Beijing has established itself as a contemporary world capital, with an efficient, modern subway system, an agglomeration of distinguished educational institutions and technology firms, and world-class arts, culture, and architecture.
ANd you've been quoted as saying that Los Angeles is the contemporary art capital of the world.
Whether Los Angeles will emerge as the contemporary art capital of the world, as Broad hopes, remains to be seen.
