Hey, everybody, it's Kai.

Thanks for downloading this episode of the Corner Office podcast.

This week, we're brushing up against the art world, specifically art museums.

While the global art market itself is pretty huge, for a lot of us, our main exposure to that market is through art museums, places like the Brod.

The Brod Museum is a contemporary art museum in downtown Los Angeles.

It houses the private collection, something like 2,000 items of Los Angeles philanthropists, Eli, and Edith Brod.

The museum itself opened to the public five years ago, but it also doubles as kind of a lending library

where the pieces not on display can be loaned out to other museums.

Joanna Heiler is the Brod's founding director.

We met up the other day for a walk and a talk.

We're expecting you.

Don't you ever see?

Ready to go to work?

You know, I was doing my reading for this, and it's amazing it's been five years.

I mean, it's gone like that.

It has gone like that.

And the amount of people who've come to the museum is just astounding us.

And we didn't even expect it.

We expected about $300,000 a year.

And it's how many now?

Last year, we welcomed 917,000 people.

Amazing. I mean, if you drive by and you see the lines, it doesn't surprise you, but it's still kind of amazing.

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