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LACMA

LACMA Will Build A New Museum On Top of Its Old One

by Corinna Kirsch on May 1, 2013
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Museums can’t buy a new Louis Vuitton bag every time they want to show off their wealth so instead, they display bling by hiring big-name architects to create new and shiny, glass-filled galleries. LACMA will be joining this popularity game with a planned $650 million expansion by the Pritzker prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor. $450 will be allotted for construction with the remaining $200 million set aside for administrative expenses and contingency.

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MOCA Reviews Merger Proposals, Trustees Offer A New Approach

by Corinna Kirsch on March 20, 2013
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Hold your horses, LACMA. It looks like MOCA will not be accepting your merger proposal after all.

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The A-Z MOCA Scandal Index

by Corinna Kirsch on March 14, 2013
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Don’t know how to keep up with the MOCA drama? We’re here to help.

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Morning Links: Resource Edition

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on March 13, 2013
  • A blog and potential resource for President and canine painter George Bush. [Dog Art Today]
  • Hilarious! The L.A. MOCA drama told in GIFs. [C-Monstah]
  • A new art(ish) blog based in Copenhagen launches with reviews of international shows and the odd interview and news item. Not a lot of critical perspective here, but a reasonable start. [Recent Future Archive]
  • MOCA is close to working out a five-year agreement with The National Gallery in DC, which will include collaborating on programming and research and exhibitions. This might help ward off the LACMA merger. [NYTimes]
  • Vine hack. Now you can make 20 second videos if you want to. [AnimalNY] Thank-you Jordan Smilovic [Brooklyn Web Developers]
  • If you’re in Europe, nobody’s going to stop you from watching porn on your computer. It’s porn IRL that’ll get you in trouble. [Mashable]
  • Guggenheim Museum Director Richard Armstrong writes a letter to Hyperallergic’s Senior Editors Kyle Chayka and Jillian Steinhauer in response to “When Artspeak Means Oppression” penned last week by contributor Mostafa Heddaya. In that piece, Heddaya calls out the Guggenheim for not paying much attention to human rights abuses in the United Arab Emirates where they’re currently building Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. [Hyperallergic]
  • The Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) announced last week that the museum will be laying off 21 people (11 percent of its staff). Why are they doing this? Tyler Green takes a look at their rationale and finds it inconsistent with museum management practices. Consider this your must-read article for the day. [Modern Art Notes]
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Monday Links: What People Say

by Paddy Johnson on March 11, 2013

  • Amanda Browder reported that The Armory Show (Contemporary) suffered a loss of power this weekend due to a water main break at 52nd and 11th. [Twitter]
  • Helen Popkin gets some twitter tips from the expert himself: politician Cory Booker. #SXSWi [NBC]
  • David Carr on paid content. #SXSWi [Paid Content]
  • Artist and former MOCA board member Catherine Opie gives her thoughts on the possible LACMA-MOCA merger. [ArtInfo]
  • Mat Gleason pulls apart LACMA Director Michael Goven’s statement on the possible merger with MOCA. It’s a great between-the-lines read, but the stuff that’s not so between-the-lines is perhaps most interesting. Gleason points out that Goven is clearly asserting that in this merger, MOCA will be dissolved. [Huff Po]
  • Rich people attend parties. [Bloomberg]

 

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Massive Links! False Identities | Hidden Paintings | Enormous Hunks of Rock and the Men that Move Them

by Reid Singer on September 23, 2011
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A completion date for the Sagrada Familia, restaurants in the Upper East Side that don’t suck, a moveable Michael Heizer sculpture, and other things you didn’t think you’d hear about when you got out of bed this morning.

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