Please arrive 15 minutes prior to departure in both directions. She is the fifth person since 2008 to lead the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, an important institution that has faced a. Buses leave the destination for the return trip at 4 p.m. After Upheaval, MOCA Bets on Johanna Burton to Bring Stability.

New director Jeffrey Deitch, a former New York art dealer, has been accused of overly populist, audience-driven programming, and all the artists who served on the museum’s board-John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger, Catherine Opie and Ed Ruscha-all resigned in 2012. Museum Express includes two round-trips to the Morongo Casino in Palm Springs.

The earlier proposal came in 2008 when MOCA was facing huge financial difficulties but a 30 million donation to MOCA from the. has been at the center of controversy since 2008, when a plunging endowment brought an earlier proposal for a merger with LACMA, which was scuttled when Eli Broad bailed out MOCA to the tune of $30 million. This is the second attempt LACMA has made to merge with MOCA. MOCA’s downtown location, extraordinary collection and devoted constituency, combined with LACMA’s modern art masterpieces, large audiences and broad educational outreach (especially in schools near downtown L.A.), would create a cultural institution that is much more than the sum of its parts.” In effect, MOCA would become a LACMA department with the attendant loss of stature such a demotion would mean, even if their merged contemporary collections were to be LACMA’s most important. “LACMA’s mission is to share world-class art with the widest array of audiences possible. “Combining LACMA and MOCA would strengthen both,” LACMA director Michael Govan said in a statement. LACMA would agree to pay $100 million, the article says, and would maintain MOCA’s two downtown locations and preserve the MOCA L.A. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has made a formal proposal to acquire the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, according to a report in the L.A.

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