Friday, July 20, 2012

The MOCA meltdown as "an apt metaphor for our crisis-plagued times"


In an ARTINFO article, Ben Davis traces the troubled history of MOCA from the days of 2008 when its financial problems first came into the open and Eli Broad stepped in to save the museum. Now he says the rescue appears to be an example of pursing a solution that has nothing to do with the real problem, and is more of a pet ideological problem of one man, Eli Broad. Davis says MOCA had a finances problem, not a curatorial problem and that tackling the wrong problem in the wrong way has hurt MOCA 's chances of setting itself right in the long run. Read more...
Image: Eli Broad and Jeffrey Deitch