The Broad in Los Angeles will open a new collection exhibition on 21 November that asks how mass media shapes history and collective memory. Has the myth been shattered runs until 4 April 2027 and is drawn entirely from the museum's own holdings, spanning six decades and a wide range of media.

The show takes its title from a work by Guadalupe Rosales, which incorporates a Los Angeles Times front page published in the immediate aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, set behind a two-way mirror with colour-changing LED lights. Rosales looks back at a charged moment in the city's history and probes questions that remain unanswered today.

New acquisitions by Rosales and Hank Willis Thomas are among more than a dozen works being shown at the museum for the first time. They join pieces by artists central to the collection, including Barbara Kruger, Glenn Ligon and Andy Warhol, and a series of portraits of former vice president Nelson Rockefeller by Leon Golub, painted just after the end of the Vietnam War.

The exhibition is free with general admission and will be accompanied by a full season of public programming. Curated by Jen Vanegas Rocha, it is the latest in the Broad's line of free group shows drawn from its collection, using the museum's own holdings to take on subjects that reach well beyond the gallery walls. The Broad's collection, built by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad, is one of the most significant holdings of post-war and contemporary art in the United States. The new show is part of a regular programme of free exhibitions that use the collection to take on subjects of public concern.