MOCA in financial crisis

Tom · 11-20-2008, 10:05 PM

Story here. Apparently it is bad enough that Moca is considering selling off its entire collection or merging itself into LACMA and giving up all of its downtown gallery space.

A scathing attack by the LA Times art critic on the Museum's trustees here.

This article is slightly more upbeat - it says leaders in the LA arts scene are rallying around the Museum.

€uroMeinke · 11-20-2008, 10:23 PM

Bah - they're closing the temporary for 6 months? That's the best part of MOCA - I's sell off the Grand Location before I resorted to that. Guess I better make use of my membership while I still can

LSPoorEeyorick · 11-20-2008, 10:31 PM

Holy ****. Why didn't we know about this sooner?

We should be happy their current plans ONLY include closing the Geffen (my favorite art space in the whole city) for only 6 months. Seems like with the proposed MOCA-LACMA merger its spark-in-the-dark may be lost forever.

The art critic's opinion piece is spot-on. WTF are they thinking?

Ghoulish Delight · 11-20-2008, 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by LSPoorEeyorick

Holy ****. Why didn't we know about this sooner?

I imagine that's symptomatic of why their in such trouble.

innerSpaceman · 11-21-2008, 12:09 AM

What, no Congressional bail-out?

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LSPoorEeyorick scribblin' Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: in the moment Posts: 3,872	Holy ****. Why didn't we know about this sooner? We should be happy their current plans ONLY include closing the Geffen (my favorite art space in the whole city) for only 6 months. Seems like with the proposed MOCA-LACMA merger its spark-in-the-dark may be lost forever. The art critic's opinion piece is spot-on. WTF are they thinking?
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