Things tagged 'museums'
The morning after the Broad offer @Modern Art Notes
MAN has a great summary of recent developments in the MOCA story and figures out what leverage, if any, this all leaves for the museum.
“That gives MOCA director Jeremy Strick and his board co-chairs room to effectively attach that proviso themselves. If trustees won’t open their wallets, ‘ask’ them to resign effective immediately. Requiring MOCA’s trustees to put up or shut up would seperate the dedicated and the committed from the panicky. It would also lay the groundwork for a stronger MOCA board if and when this is all over. (And for the MOCA trustees who don’t have that kind of liquidity and who are on the board because they’re young collectors, tell them that they may make their commitment to the institution in a different way: Through gifts of art and public promises of gifts of art. It’s time to bind MOCA’s trustees to MOCA, to require them to be personally invested. That’s been missing.) “
Temporary Space @MOCA Exhibition Archive
“Temporary Space: The Contemporary Tent (May 26-Jul. 15, 1984) was a free outdoor exhibition curated by Jacqueline Crist. The show featured approximately seventy-five of the most innovative and durable mountaineering tents currently in use around the world, which were all erected under the chain-link canopy in front of the Temporary Contemporary.”
I gather this show is from before the museum building on Grand was actually finished (‘Temporary Contemporary’).
The MOCA just launched an archive of their exhibitions from 1983-2004. With the financial difficulties they are going through right now, it’s good to be able to look back on the shows they’ve put out there and to get a real sense for the distinct place the museum has occupied in Los Angeles.
In other news, Eli Broad is stepping up to the plate to invest in MOCA and is challenging other Los Angeles philanthropists to do the same.
MOCA said to be courting LACMA for bailout @LATimes
The MOCA in Los Angeles is apparently nearly insolvent; bummer – it’s always been one of my favorites. Proposed solutions include merging w/ LACMA.
“In the wake of Wednesday’s board meeting to discuss options for the fiscal crisis at the Museum of Contemporary Art, here is what I’m told the board is now prepared to do: formally approach the Los Angeles County Museum of Art about a merger, which will effectively mean a transfer of MOCA’s extraordinary collection to the Mid-Wilshire complex.”
LATimes art critic, Christopher Knight writes about why he reckons this is the wrong move.
