Celebrating its 30-year-anniversary the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art has compiled an admirable retrospective that superlatively tributes a rich artistic history starting from post World War II to the present, but from a perspective that is uniquely L.A. Like looking back through old school yearbooks, the expansive exhibition in two parts, highlights artists like: Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jean Michel Basquiat, Sam Francis, Robert Rauchenberg, Edward Rucha, Antoni Tapies, Ellsworth Kelly, and Barnett Newman, to name a few from our gallery collection. Impressive hardly begins to describe this compendium, and the breadth of influence of the MOCA has never been so pronounced.
This leaves an interesting question at hand: How will the MOCA fair over the NEXT 30 years?
It’s no secret that the last year has been turbulent for the museum and its trustees, filled with messy financial predicaments and exigent correlating choices, the most recent being the appointment of Jeffrey Deitch as the new Museum Director. When the museum board announced in January that the infamous SoHo Art Dealer was to take over the position, the public reacted with grave apprehensions that his market-oriented approach might take the museum out of the frying pan and into the fire.


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