What is the problem in my brain that makes me want this for posterity sake?
hyde or die
“A film about the soap opera’s taping and its television broadcast is slated to be screened at MOCA at an unspecified future date. I suppose the only question now is why anyone would care.
If you missed Friday’s “General Hospital,” or prior snippets in episodes that aired last Monday and Thursday, and you aren’t concerned about losing some time that would be more productively spent hitting yourself in the temple with a ball-peen hammer, they’re available for a short time at Hulu.
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— Christopher Knight on James Franco and MOCA’s General Hospital episode.
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), announced a generous gift of $435,000 from the estate of renowned Los Angeles photographer Max Yavno, nearly 25 years after his death. Yavno, who died in 1985, was an accomplished fine art and commercial photographer known for his social documentation and sensitive depiction of urban realism.
I can’t tell if this recording of Olafur Eliasson’s Blind Pavilion is tedious or brilliant. It’s not long, just about 3 and a half minutes, but it’s interesting to be “reading” a book from the perspective of someone else, at their pace, at their glance. Thoughts?
» James Franco at MOCA...Sure Jeffrey, why not?
The other is MOCA’s involvement with James Franco, the actor who has cast himself as an artist in more ways than one. According to Deitch, Franco the actor will resume his role as Franco the artist on “General Hospital” this summer only to leave the fictional Port Charles for Los Angeles at one point because he has landed (still storyline here) a show with MOCA.
If this helps to clarify: “General Hospital’s” shoot will take place at MOCA’s Pacific Design Center location this month, and the film that the real Franco is making based on the soap-opera project will be screened at the museum at a later date.
I just don’t have the energy to get into this right now…Maybe later?
Actually, I don’t know if I will ever have the appropriate energy to actually tackle this. Now if you’ll excuse me, I am going to go look at pictures of kittens to cleanse my pallate of this garbage.
“But if I were Deitch, I would take two other steps as soon as possible: Change the museum’s operating hours and make admission free.”
How did this happen?
Remember toward the end of 2008 when MOCA had negative money and were flayling around and everyone was panicking and then Super Eli came to the rescue? Well, the LA Times is now reporting that the Attorney General found that not only were they very good at going broke, they were very good at breaking laws!
Instead of reducing spending, MOCA paid some of its bills with money from endowments that donors had earmarked for other purposes, Johns found; she noted that the law requires either that nonprofits get written permission from donors before using restricted endowments in other ways, or that they obtain court orders overriding the restrictions. “The withdrawals we reviewed did not follow this standard,” Johns wrote.
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As a consequence, MOCA was ordered to take two “required corrective actions” — hiring a consultant to help it come up with newer and better financial procedures, and special training for all museum board members “to ensure that they fully understand their fiduciary duties.”
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Well, this should be interesting to watch. Deitch is on his way over. They are now going to have to hire consultants. I haven’t heard if they are still having that fundraiser at Blum + Poe, but that’s not good.
I have to wonder if they are just counting on more attendence and interest because they have their hearts set on Eli Broad having his museum downtown and having that fix a lot of their publicity woes. Now that Beverly Hills has bowed out of the competition, it’s only DTLA and Santa Monica going head to head. Where the ball stops, nobody knows.
» Deitch to have Julian Schnabel curate a Dennis Hopper retrospective for inaugural show.
Some people may not be into this, but I really am. Schnabel is a more than competent curator, Hopper is an incredible and underrated photographer who’s oevre covers not only the hayday of American art in the 70’s and on, but he captures the essence of Los Angeles(and other cities) as well. I think this is overdue, and focus on Los Angeles artists is never a bad thing.
