Sentences with phrase «moca board»

The Grotjahn news lands at the same time that artist Lari Pittman, who is gay and Latino, confirmed to The Times that he resigned his seat on the MOCA board about two weeks ago.

In March of last year, LACMA Director Michael Govan confirmed that his museum had proposed a takeover of MOCA in response to a request by an unidentified MOCA board member.

Vergne's success at salving the wounded pride of the LA art world was evidenced by Baldessari's return to the MoCA board as well as by the huge number of artists in attendance, including Barbara Kruger, Kathryn Andrews, Sterling Ruby, Diana Thater, and Mark Bradford, whose midcareer survey opens this month at the Hammer Museum.

Exactly one year ago the MOCA board announced that it would keep the museum independent and would try to lift its endowment to $ 100 million from $ 20 million.

Schimmel won't discuss the circumstances of his resignation, or why he thinks the MOCA board leadership ousted him.

Opie, who said that she and Kruger sent a joint email on Friday to Deitch and MOCA board co-chairs David Johnson and Maria Bell, named Schimmel's forced resignation along with the firing of curatorial assistants and longtime education program manager Aandrea Stang as factors in her decision.

MOCA's response came Monday in a two - sentence statement from Maria Arena Bell and David G. Johnson, co-chairs of the museum's board: «We deeply regret the resignations of artists John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger, Cathy Opie and Ed Ruscha from the MOCA board.

John Baldessari left Thursday, making Ed Ruscha the only remaining artist - trustee on the MOCA board.

Although the artists on the MOCA board are not expected to pay annual dues like other trustees, they serve more than a symbolic role.

Wachs will work with MOCA board chairs Maria Bell and David Johnson in the search for a successor to Deitch.

All the Chows (Michael, Eva, Max, and China) were present, along with a gaggle of museum directors (Thomas Campbell, Klaus Biesenbach, Arnold Lehman, and Adam Weinberg); curators Gary Tinterow and Ann Temkin; collectors Steve Cohen, Wendy Stark, and LA MoCA board cochair Maria Bell; artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Marco Brambilla, Ryan McGinness, Aaron Young, and Schnabel; a bevy of fashion types (Calvin Klein, Linda Evangelista, Stefano Tonchi, the ultrafabulous Daphne Guinness); Martin and Stiller; and even the slightly scandalized baseball star Alex Rodriguez.

Across the street from the Broad, for example, Museum of Contemporary Art Director Philippe Vergne has a seat on the MOCA board.

«The way I see it, L.A. is probably the major contemporary art center in the world, not just in museums but also — and more importantly — because of all the artists living here and moving to L.A.,» said Maurice, currently co-chair of the MOCA board.

But the museum has struggled financially over the past 10 years and its problems, rather than its achievements, have been paramount in the art world discussion since last summer, when longtime chief curator Paul Schimmel resigned under pressure and all four artists on the MOCA board soon resigned as trustees.

The partnership idea was initiated by MOCA board member Eli Broad, the billionaire collector who is opening his own art museum downtown in 2014, across the street from MOCA.

Board chairs Maria Bell and David Johnson, along with Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts president Joel Wachs, led a committee that included artists John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger, Catherine Opie and Ed Ruscha, who had all resigned from the MOCA board in 2012, criticizing the direction the museum was headed under Deitch.

So, congratulations MOCA Board, for your poor decision - making and paralyzed inaction.

That would be nice,» said Catherine Opie, one of four well - known Los Angeles artists who resigned from the MOCA board last summer over frustration with the museum's direction.

The MOCA board said it had launched a search for his successor.

MOCA board Chairman David Johnson issued this statement Thursday about the departure of its chief curator, Paul Schimmel, the latest key member of the museum leadership to leave.

The aim, said Lopez, who joined the MOCA board in 2005 but whose support dates back several years before that, is to continue MOCA's «exemplary exhibition program» and further build its prized holdings of post-World War II art.

Artist and MOCA board member Catherine Opie was told by Vergne that Molesworth was fired for «undermining the museum,» according to the LA Times, to which she replied, «I think you have made a terrible mistake.»

John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger and Catherine Opie will resume their positions as «artist trustees» on the MOCA board.

In honor of MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch, MOCA Board Co-Chair Maria Arena Bell and her husband Bill donated Tim Noble and Sue Webster's light installation Forever (2001), the first of the artists» works to be added to the museum's collection.

According to artist and MoCA board member Catherine Opie, Vergne said Molesworth was «undermining the museum»

«Artists Return to MOCA Board.»

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Charles Gilman, chair of the MOCA Board of Trustees, and his wife, Marilyn, donated a work by Jason John, a Jacksonville artist and University of North Florida professor whose work was featured in MOCA's Get Real: New American Painting.

Not exact matches

He has served on the acquisitions committee of MOCA, co-chaired the MOCA benefit auction, as well as served on the board of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE).

Catherine Opie, an artist who is on the board of the museum, publicly weighed in, telling Christopher Knight, the art critic for the Los Angeles Times, that Ms. Molesworth had been dismissed by MOCA's director, Philippe Vergne.

Preston H. Haskell purchased Maya Hayuk's Multiverse (2014), also from Confronting the Canvas, and donated it to the Museum in memory of Arthur W. Milam, a longtime chair of the Board of Trustees and a leader in moving MOCA to downtown Jacksonville.

«As we look ahead to an exciting new chapter in MOCA's history, Alex provides the curatorial vision and administrative leadership necessary to strengthen the museum's standing as a leading voice in the local and international contemporary art communities,» said Dr. Kira Flanzraich, Chairman of the Board of Trustees.

MOCA Jacksonville has every amenity you'd expect for a productive board meeting, high - impact product launch, staff retreat, holiday party, or VIP reception.

MASS MoCA has an impressive roster of artists and foundations on board for upcoming projects: The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Easton Foundation (Louise Bourgeois), James Turrell, Jenny Holzer and Laurie Anderson.

Her past experience includes serving MOCA on the board of the Contemporaries Council from 2001 - 2010, as Vice President from 2007 - 2010, and also as Education Co-Chair (2004 - 2007) and Members at - Large Co-Chair (2001 - 2005) and also serving the Santa Monica Museum of Art from 2007 - 2009 on the Incognito Committee.

Vergne succeeds Jeffrey Deitch, appointed in 2010, whose background as an art dealer, without museum experience, made him a controversial choice, and resulted in artists John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger, Catherine Opie and Ed Ruscha resigning from MOCA's board in 2012, as a criticism of Deitch's policies.

MOCA curator Alex Gartenfeld was named interim director in September 2013, but when the city refused to pay his salary, as well as building maintenance fees, the board sued for breach of contract.

She is a longtime supporter of MOCA and has recently joined the museum's Board of Trustees.

The crackup at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles — with glitz - blitz director Jeffrey Deitch on the ropes and famous artists resigning from the board as fast as you can say John - Baldessari - Barbara - Kruger - Ed - Ruscha — is a fascination.

(Gallerist NY) Ari Emanuel, the hard - charging Hollywood agent you may know as the inspiration for Jeremy Piven's character on Entourage (and as the brother of Rahm), has joined Los Angeles MOCA's board.

Though her programming has been credited for jump starting MoCA after a disastrous few years for the museum under the directorship of dealer Jeffrey Deitch (in which both funds and significant board members were lost), she's also made no bones about her disinterest in being a donor diplomat.

Though her programming has been credited for jump starting MoCA after a disastrous few years for the museum under the directorship of dealer Jeffrey Deitch (in which both funds and significant board members were lost), she's also made no bones about her disinterest in being a donor dip

«MOCA GA's annual auction and sale brings together many of the leading arts supporters and patrons of the Atlanta metro area,» stated Susan Tucker, MOCA GA Board Chair.

To date, the Yale University Art Gallery and MASS MoCA have raised more than $ 10 million in funding for the project from an array of devoted board members and other notable arts patrons who are supportive of Sol LeWitt's work.

Wilmerding said discussions have involved National Gallery director Earl «Rusty» Powell and «a couple of» MOCA trustees besides Broad, and that the details could be firm enough within a week to be formally presented to each museum's board.

Current and past board members and other MOCA stakeholders would not speak on the record about the most recent events or did not respond to interview requests.

The dismissal of MOCA's chief curator, Paul Schimmel, who had been at the museum for 22 years (and the decision not to replace him), was closely followed by Mr. Deitch's confirmation of an upcoming exhibition dedicated to the era of disco, prompting all four artists on the museum's board — the luminaries Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger and Catherine Opie — to resign in protest.

Three artist - trustees — John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger and Catherine Opie — have rejoined L.A. MOCA's board.

Meanwhile, MOCA's board is trying to complete a fundraising campaign to stablilize its finances by lifting the museum's endowment from about $ 20 million to $ 100 million.

Although the MOCA artist - trustees are not expected to pay annual dues like other trustees, they participate in board meetings and regularly donate works of art to be sold for the museum's benefit.