LACMA announces plan to take over LA MOCA

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has announced a plan to take over the financially troubled LA MOCA, but it may require the approval of billionaire collector Eli Broad. His $30m bailout of MOCA in 2008 was on condition that it may not be acquired by another museum within 100 miles within the next 10 years. You can read the merger proposal here.

Former MOCA chief executive urges Eli Broad to remove Jeffrey Deitch

In an email sent to Eli Broad and obtained by the Los Angeles Times, Charles Young, the former chief executive of the Museum of Contemporary Art, has called for the removal of museum director Jeffrey Deitch.

"I hope that the four-alarm fire now enveloping MOCA has at least given you pause for thought about his appointment and your continued attempts to try to save him for a job which many (including myself) believe he is unqualified," Young wrote to Broad. "The resignation of dedicated, long term trustees, and especially four highly respected artists of international acclaim, should bother you, David [Johnson], Maria [Bell] and the other continuing members of the board. The question is 'What now is to be done?'"

"I will do anything I can to try to right the MOCA ship, but nothing will work, in my mind, without a new Captain/Director," Young concluded. Read more...
Image: Charles Young, former chief executive of MOMA and former UCLA chancellor

Jeffrey Deitch reponds to his critics

Jeffrey Deitch has defended his exhibition record at MOCA and dismissed suggestions by some board members, including in an open letter published in the New York Times, that the museum has lost its artistic bearings under his directorship and is increasingly under the control of billionaire collector and philanthropist Eli Broad. Read more...
Image: Jeffrey Deitch, director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art

Eli Broad at home with art

In a recent edition of the Los Angeles Times, Billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad talks to Jori Finkel about how he built his collection and artists he's known along the way. Read more...