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LA MOCA on Life Support: NY Times Roberta Smith Call Deitch’s Tenure “Disappointing”

By Bill Davenport on July 22, 2012

Even NY Times critic Roberta Smith, originally a supporter of LA MOCA’s bold move in appointing flamboyant gallerist Jeffrey Deitch as its new Director, admits his tenure has been disappointing. In a Times article titled “A Los Angeles Museum on Life-Support” she recaps MOCA’s problems, Deitch’s failure to solve them, and the worrisome departure of [...]

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Wrong Museum Burning: Ruscha’s Exit Leaves No Artists on LA MOCA Board

By Bill Davenport on July 18, 2012

Joining John Baldessari, Catherine Opie and Barbara Kruger in a rush to the exit, Ed Ruscha, the last artist on LA MOCA’s board, resigned Monday. The troubled museum, pulled out of a financial hole by Eli Broad and resolutely headed towards a party-filled populist future, ousted noted curator Paul Schimmel a few weeks ago, starting [...]

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MOCA TV Online Next Summer: Deitch Creates New Role as Media Executive

By Bill Davenport on January 21, 2012

LA MOCA has announced it will will begin its own YouTube channel in July, featuring arts news, talk and original arts-related content to compete with niche cable-TV shows about sports, criminals and vulgarity. In the works is a street-art documentary series, a talking heads art news bulletin, a reality-style artists-live-in-squalor program, and art comedy. The [...]

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