Geffen Contemporary at MOCA 2011
The Creative Genius of Graffiti Artists
Geffen Contemporary April 2012
Cai Guo-Qiang: Sky Ladder Fireworks Explosion
LA County Museum of Art‘s “Levitated Mass”
Michael Heizer’s 340-ton Hunk of Granite
Broad Contemporary at LACMA: “Metropolis II”
Chris Burden’s Erector Set World of Miniature Cars and Trains
Broad Museum at Grand Ave. Project
MOCA’s PAST AND FUTURE
Eli Broad, in an LA Times Op-Ed, tells his version of the history of how he created the Museum of Contemporary Art, how it went downhill when he left the chairmanship after 14 years, how he brought it back to life in 2008, helped put Jeffrey Deitch in charge — a move that has led to the forced departure of long-time and highly-regarded Chief Curator Paul Schimmel.
I like museums -Art, Sccience and Industry, Field – yes I grew up in Chicago. In those
days musums were financed by wealthy people (the public was undergoing a Depression). But today is a brand new ballgame. You paid for these with tax
monies (sales or direct as a property owner or small business operator, income). Are you getting your money’s worth? Are school children (with all the money we pay for the schools ) bussed in as classses to learn from these exhibits? Is downtown close enough to the city’s outskirts that everyone of us knows it very well? A city 450 miles in size? You know that it is definitely not. I live a few blocks from the Ventura County line and pay all taxes mentioned and you know very well that you and I do not have any advantage from these facilities. Yes the c ity council which is the entity that spends all tax monies and keeps raising them to accomodate ideas from very wealthy groups who support them because they are the ones who are paid handsomely with the money we need not only to rear young families but also to save for our retirement. Pensions? Who gets paid pensions nowadays except for the city employees unions? Our city is way overstaffed.
Ron, thank you for explaining all of this to us in the time you have had since you
retired as Editor from the LA Daily News after many years of service.
would look just wonderful with sidewalks and trees want us to water and mantain
the trees and also to repair the sidewalks uprooted by the street trees.
This is art? Lauding graffiti (otherwise infamously known by the b.s. name of ‘street art’?) and erector set art that any eight-year-old boy with an imagination could produce.
How about this, Mr. Throw-Money-at-Crap-Projects-for-Your-Own-Egotistical-Selfish-Interests, and make donations to encourage roof top gardens that will help negate the heating effects of all the ugly concrete you’ve poured to reflect your own grotesque image???
3rd or 4th best post by Ron on this blog in the last 5 years! You just scroll down at the pictures of PURE GARBAGE being paid for as “Art.” A used STEEL AND WOOD BARN would be the appropriate place to house this “Art” by the MOCA People. A homeless shelter for VETERANS could be placed in that Eli Broad thing he’s building and that would be large enough to clear up Skid Row and the surrounding streets–THAT WOULD BE ART! When will these Billionaires begin to step up and do things like build some damn trains and new freeways FOR THE PEOPLE? These wealthy TURKEYS aren’t going to take the money with them to the grave—why not do something to leave a legacy of accomplishing something?
If you had seen “Art in the Streets”, I think you would have a different opinion as to whether it is art. And the lines to see it were nothing less than astouding.
Art, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder. And these eyes say that t’ain’t art and neither is graffiti.
They also say, a picture is worth a thousand words. I have one word for each of the above photos: dreck!
But the point is that you didn’t see it. You didn’t behold and, forgive my saying so, sound incredibly ignorant passing judgment on something you haven’t experienced
Art is in the eye of the beholder. It has always been so.
Again, one needs to actually behold
Interesting article!
Funny that I have read an article from two creatives on LA as city to live in. . .
what do you think?
certainly opinions can be quite controversial. . .
http://betterymagazine.com/places/los-angeles/