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Originally Posted by scania
Be it your style or not, everything is not going to be for everyone.
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very true, as is the case with many things.
The art critic for the LA Times has described the future Lucas as a 'treacle museum'.
as for tastemakers & their preference for modern & contemporary art, one thing about it is it's more of a stand back & get the big picture type of thing. that's why visiting the broad can be done at a faster pace than visiting a place where images will be more detailed & smaller, such as what will be displayed at the lucas.
when I visited the broad, I was impressed by everything, but my daughter wasn't.....different strokes for different folks.
George Lucas goes into fuller explanation about what he's trying to achieve.
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If ppl aren't interested in the contents, they can at least come for the experience of the bldg....
laopinion.com
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I never take anything good for granted....
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MOCA fires its chief curator
Helen Molesworth, the chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art whose exhibitions have included the critically acclaimed 2017 Kerry James Marshall retrospective that was also a rare popular hit, has been fired, according to sources close to the museum. MOCA Director Philippe Vergne took the dramatic step on Monday, sources say.
Efforts to reach Molesworth were unsuccessful. MOCA responded to The Times' requests for comment with a statement Tuesday afternoon that said: "The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) and Helen Molesworth have decided to part ways due to creative differences. MOCA is grateful to Helen Molesworth for her work over the past 3 and a half years as Chief Curator at the Museum."
Opie said she called Vergne after receiving the surprise message and was told that Molesworth had not written a letter of resignation but was terminated for "undermining the museum." Opie was nonplussed.
"I think you have made a terrible mistake" by firing her, she said she told Vergne.
Firing a chief curator is highly unusual. The post is responsible for setting the museum's general artistic agenda, which had been adrift at MOCA following a lengthy period of fiscal and board turmoil marked by the 2008 departure of former director Jeremy Strick and the tumultuous four-year tenure of New York art dealer Jeffrey Deitch. For a museum of its size and international reputation, MOCA now has a small curatorial staff — just one senior curator and three assistants, in addition to the chief curator.
Last month the museum was embarrassed by the mishandling of plans for the 2018 MOCA gala honoring one of its artist board members, Mark Grotjahn. After the event was announced, Grotjahn withdrew his acceptance of the honor, citing rumblings of constituent concern about a lack of diversity among the museum's three previous gala honorees, all of whom have been straight, white men.
The gala was quietly shelved on Friday, according to a museum insider not authorized to discuss the matter, with $1.4 million in pledges set to be returned to donors.
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