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Schimmel and Web of Museum Cross-Purposes

Museum Outreach or Overreach? Backlash Sets in Over LA MOCA Schimmel Firing

Art philanthropist Eli Broad defended Jeffrey Deitch and the Los Angeles MOCA’s new direction, in an op-ed piece in the LA Times on Sunday, sparking a flurry of commentary, mostly negative. Blake Gopnik, in the Daily Beast, speculates on new shows coming up at MOCA to draw in the crowds the Deitch/Broad faction appears to [...]