Reading about the latest controversy at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles — the apparently forced resignation of
the longtime head curator Paul Schimmel over the pop - culture exhibitions that the new director Jeffrey Deitch is bringing to the museum — I experienced my usual feelings of disbelief.
The ongoing brouhaha at moca came to a
head last summer, when the four artists on its board — Baldessari, Ruscha, Barbara Kruger, and Catherine Opie — resigned to protest the ouster of the museum's
longtime chief
curator, Paul Schimmel, who had clashed repeatedly with Deitch.