Will Jeffrey Deitch Be the New Director of MoCA L.A.?
POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Image via MoCA.org UPDATE: Jeffrey Deitch named Director of Los Angeles’s Museum of Contemporary Art. ArtForum Amidst the clamor of reasons to question Jeffrey Deitch as a possible Director for Los Angeles’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), “he has bad taste” seems to carry the most weight with those inside the art world. Nobody knows what would happen to his gallery — as Edward Winkleman points out on Art World Salon, there are no precedents (UPDATE: Greg.org notes Walter Hopps ran a gallery before running several museums, including Pasadena, the Corcoran, the Smithsonian’s National Collection or whatever [now the SAAM], and the Menil) — and the usual conflict of interest stories aren’t taking off. I can only see this as having to do with the overall fatigue of the subject and a generally assumed resemblance of the situation to what happened with Mike Bloomberg when he was elected as New York City’s mayor in 2002: The founder and 88% owner of Bloomberg, a finan
