NEW YORK — There are diverse references to art in the office of Philippe Vergne, the man who will be the next director of Los Angeles» Museum of Contemporary Art: a framed photo of artist Walter de Maria's «The Lightning Field,» a glossy picture of a work by Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn, and a
porcelain toilet plunger, signed «R. Mutt,» a reference to Marcel Duchamp's 1917 «Fountain» — a
porcelain urinal.