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Your Essential Guide to MOCApocalypse 2012
A lot has happened in the week and half since we last gave you an update on the situation at Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art. Oh wait, except ... nothing's actually happened.
Jeffrey Deitch
Art
James Franco / Free Beer
“James Franco / Free Beer” was distributed as a pamphlet as part of Keith Rocka Knittel’s performance “James Franco / Free Beer / Spiral Jetty (IV),” at Perform Chinatown in Los Angeles on July 21, 2012.
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LA's MOCA Loses the Last of Its Artist Trustees
Artist Ed Ruscha has left the board of LA's Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), following the departures last week of John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger and Catherine Opie. The last artist on the board has left the building.
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LA Museum Drama: MOCA Goes Full Deitch, LACMA Lays Off Staff
LA MOCA has fired Paul Schimmel Paul Schimmel quits LA MOCA? (according to Jeffrey Deitch), LACMA is reducing its hours and cutting staff, and the Getty cut jobs last month. Pull yourself together, LA!
Announcement
The Avant/Garde Diaries
The Avant/Garde Diaries [http://engine.nectarads.com/redirect/0/8794/9727/0/2ea185ff80df433f854a9aeeb1d73c47/0/0/0/0] is a digital portrait magazine that invites leading creatives to talk about the cutting edge of art, design, fashion, music and film. In each digital portrait, featured diarists are
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Yvonne Rainer Disturbed by MOCA's "Degrading Methods of Fund Raising"
The final text and signatories of Yvonne Rainer's letter to Jeffrey Deitch/MOCA protesting Marina Abramović's performance for the MOCA gala is on the Artforum website [http://artforum.com/news/#news29378]. There are 50 signatures on the letter.
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Yvonne Rainer Accuses Abramović & MOCA of Exploiting Performers
Since Marina Abramović was picked to provide the entertainment for LA MOCA's upcoming gala we've all been wondering what the performance art queen would conjure up to do her bidding. Now, we kind of know and it raises some serious questions, namely, is performance art ever an excuse for labor abuse?
Opinion
Required Reading
This week is a grab bag of reviews, video clips, profiles and historic finds.
Opinion
Breaking: Julian Schnabel's Abode Fading from "Pompeii Red" to "Venetian Pink"
We haven't been covering the humble home of artist Julian Schnabel, known as Palazzo Chupi, like others [http://ny.curbed.com/tags/palazzo-chupi] have but that's not to say we haven't been gawking at a distance trying to figure out WTF why the hell he made it.
Opinion
Deitch Listens as Carlo McCormick Brings Up Blu Whitewash
According to the art world's favorite vlogger, James Kalm, Art in the Streets essayist Carlo McCormick spoke on June 19 at MOCA and Jeffrey Deitch was in the crowd.
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Street Artist Space Invader Arrested in LA?
The Los Angeles Police Department caught and arrested two French nationals vandalizing buildings with “buckets of grout and pieces of tile” near the LA Museum of Contemporary Art's Little Tokyo gallery this past Friday. One of the vandals seems to be the famed French street artist Space Invader, rep
Art
Everyone Wants to be First
There is apparently something about institutional street art shows that move museum folk towards declarations of their firstness. Street Art at the Tate Modern in 2008 was billed as "the first major public museum display of Street Art in London" while just last winter Hugh Davies, Director of the Mu