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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.
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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!
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Cai Guo-Qiang's Explosive West Coast Debut
LOS ANGELES — We were all gathered outside the Museum of Contemporary Art's Geffen Contemporary space near the Arts District, waiting patiently for the show to start. We'd lined up around the block, and I quietly wondered when things would get going and suddenly it seemed like a giant fireball was h
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Artist Who Sparked Yvonne Rainer Letter to MOCA Speaks Out
We now know the identity of the artist who initially wrote Yvonne Rainer to complain of the conditions of the Marina Abramović performance during the LA MOCA gala. In a letter titled "Open Letter to Artists" published by the Performance Club, performer Sara Wookey explains her motivate for initially
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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?
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Warhol Beats Street Art in LA?
If LA's Museum of Contemporary Art thought street art was a panacea to all its attendance wooes they may want to think again. Sure, there were often lines around the block for the show but the LA Times's Culture Monster blog crunched the numbers and came up with this …
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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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Brooklyn Museum Nixes Street Art Show
The Brooklyn Museum has issued a press release stating that it will no longer be hosting LA MOCA's Art in the Streets exhibition, which was scheduled to appear in Brooklyn next spring.
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Street Artist Gets Jilted by LA MoCA, Bombs Bathroom
Becca Midwood, a downtown LA street artist working since the mid-1990s, got pulled from LA Museum of Contemporary Art's Art in the Streets exhibition due to a “last minute curatorial choice.” Becca gets her work in the museum anyway, though, with a wheatpaste in the museum's bathroom. Check out this
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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