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    Deitch, what are you doing?!  I am not completely confident, but I am under the distinct impression if you are planning on doing something unethical you keep that knowledge to yourself.  Which loosely translates to not telling anyone. Especially not the press!  Maybe he doesn’t think dealing while Director (DWD..heh) is unethical? In which case we have ANOTHER problem. Ugh…Here’s what happened.
(Could Deitch) possibly unload some pieces from his personal collection “to supplement a museum director’s salary.”But instead of talking to me about his personal collection, (Deitch) discussed his gallery’s “enormous” unsold inventory. He couldn’t possibly liquidate his entire stock in the next three months, he told me, so he expected occasionally to put some of those pieces up for auction.“Isn’t that ‘dealing’?” I blurted out, thrown off-guard by this astonishing admission.He then backpedaled: He would sell only lesser works at minor auctions “like Christie’s Open.” (Works in Christie’s most recent First Open sale went for as much as $842,500.) The more important pieces would be transferred from his gallery’s inventory to his private collection (from which he had previously stated that he might occasionally sell works).He then reverted to Jeffrey-as-victim, complaining about being subjected to this importunate line of questioning when he was sacrificing “millions of dollars in opportunity costs” (i.e., money that he would otherwise have made), by giving up future gallery earnings for a nonprofit museum director’s salary.

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    Deitch, what are you doing?!  I am not completely confident, but I am under the distinct impression if you are planning on doing something unethical you keep that knowledge to yourself.  Which loosely translates to not telling anyone. Especially not the press!  Maybe he doesn’t think dealing while Director (DWD..heh) is unethical? In which case we have ANOTHER problem. Ugh…Here’s what happened.

    (Could Deitch) possibly unload some pieces from his personal collection “to supplement a museum director’s salary.”

    But instead of talking to me about his personal collection, (Deitch) discussed his gallery’s “enormous” unsold inventory. He couldn’t possibly liquidate his entire stock in the next three months, he told me, so he expected occasionally to put some of those pieces up for auction.

    “Isn’t that ‘dealing’?” I blurted out, thrown off-guard by this astonishing admission.

    He then backpedaled: He would sell only lesser works at minor auctions “like Christie’s Open.” (Works in Christie’s most recent First Open sale went for as much as $842,500.) The more important pieces would be transferred from his gallery’s inventory to his private collection (from which he had previously stated that he might occasionally sell works).

    He then reverted to Jeffrey-as-victim, complaining about being subjected to this importunate line of questioning when he was sacrificing “millions of dollars in opportunity costs” (i.e., money that he would otherwise have made), by giving up future gallery earnings for a nonprofit museum director’s salary.
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    March 17, 2010, 11:46am  

    Has Eli Broad finally picked a location for his museum?

    Curbed LA is reporting that he has (Downtown LA), his foundation is reporting that he hasn’t.

    What do you say, let’s start a pool on when he will finally announce it and what the location will be?

    I say, Thursday and Downtown LA.  The allure of his buddy Deitch at MOCA is too strong.  Also, he just sunk $30 million into saving MOCA, so he might as well bring even more visitors to the area with the allure of seeing 2 contemporary museums in one trip.

    Clarification: The location choices are Santa Monica, Beverly Hills and Downtown.



    March 17, 2010, 10:46am  

    » Come on MOCA...

    Christopher Knight is reporting that MOCA is having a fundraiser at Culver City gallery Blum + Poe. Really MOCA? Seriously? Y’all went through ALL THE LOCATIONS in ALL OF LOS ANGELES for where you could have a fundraising event and you settled on a COMMERCIAL art gallery? Did anyone speak up and say this might be a conflict of interest, especially when quite a few artists represented by said gallery have pieces in your permanent collection?  Maybe one person? Maybe they thought it but didn’t say it out loud?

    Ugh. I don’t want to talk about it. I DO NOT want to talk about it.



    March 16, 2010, 2:22pm  

    Laura Owens, Untitled, 2000

I am going to be sad when my weekly emails from MOCA, coinciding with  the Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, don’t come anymore.

    Laura Owens, Untitled, 2000

    I am going to be sad when my weekly emails from MOCA, coinciding with  the Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, don’t come anymore.



    March 02, 2010, 10:06am  

    “The bookstore will be much more of a performative space, a theater. All of the bookcases will be on wheels so we can push them aside to make room for talks, signings, music, theater. Why not have a band in there? Or a poetry slam? There will be webcams that can stream performances live. I don’t want to go backwards to having lunches in the store like I did in the old days because I didn’t have any customers. Yet, I would like to do some version of that today because I want to have a dialogue. Art is art and it’s all connected.”

    Dagny Corcoran on her new Art Catalogues Space at LACMA.

    This is very exciting. She used to have the greatest space at the PDC that she had in collaboration with MOCA* which unfortunately went out of business.  I am glad Michael Govan is seeing the great potential with this venture and letting her have her freedom at LACMA.

    *If you go to the MOCA Geffen bookstore, they still have a lot of her old inventory on super sale.  I got 4 catalogues (awesome catalogues) the other day for around $15 and Atencio got a great Hirschfeld book for $5!  It’s a bit of a mess, organization wise, but it is worth the look.



    February 10, 2010, 10:08am  

    Barbara Kruger Untitled (It’s a small world but not if you have to clean it), 1990

This week’s permanent collection piece from MOCA.

    Barbara Kruger Untitled (It’s a small world but not if you have to clean it), 1990

    This week’s permanent collection piece from MOCA.



    January 26, 2010, 8:59am  

    “There’s no gallerist like him. He can do anything…. Jeffrey (Deitch) is a good businessman and he really gets the art.”

    Dan Colen

    Well if Dan Colen’s on board, by all means…



    January 20, 2010, 2:51pm  

    “When they trotted out the impresario in chief himself, he looked more staid and buttoned-up than ever—no small achievement, since I don’t think I’ve ever seen him not in full suit and tie, whether at his gallery or an “art parade” or one of the assorted sordid events he became famous for producing. Wire-rimmed spectacles supplanted his more usual round, colorful glasses, and he sported a newly trimmed hairdo and double-breasted navy suit: the picture of museum sobriety.”

    Andrew Berardini in a completely neutral article about Jeffery Deitch being announced MOCA director.

    I had no idea that one could write a 500+ word article on the subject without stating an opinion. Not even a glimpse of an opinion.



    January 19, 2010, 8:04am  

    Download the newest version of Coagula Art Journal now!

I am curious to see what their take on the Deitch/MOCA situation is.

    Download the newest version of Coagula Art Journal now!

    I am curious to see what their take on the Deitch/MOCA situation is.



    January 18, 2010, 10:48am