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Artist with work in the collections at MOCA, LACMA and many other major museums, and co-founder of MOCA Mobilization
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Diana Thater
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FROM Diana Thater
Which Way, L.A.?
What's the Future of Art and MOCA? Four years ago, the Museum of Contemporary Art was on the brink of financial disaster. MOCA Trustee Eli Broad ponied up tens of millions of dollars to save it and installed a controversial new director to steward the place into the future. Since gallerist Jeffrey Deitch came to town, critics have opposed his leadership as too driven by flash and commercialism. He's reportedly been at odds from the start with MOCA's Paul Schimmel, who was pushed out three weeks ago from his $235,000 a year job.
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