If, like myself, you were unwilling to pay $20 to MOCA(/Christie’s) to see Liz Taylor’s jewels, good news: The de Young has a Bulgari show this summer!

Urs Fischer soon to be melting all over MOCA’s floor.  Untitled [Giambologna sculpture] , 2011.

MOCA is going to host one of three concurrent Francesco Vezzoli shows later this year.  (Didn’t MOCA promise that they would made a video of the Gaga Gala performance public?)

Catherine Opie drops some gossip in the LA Times:

“I had just given [MOCA] a portfolio to sell to save a person’s job in education […] and it equaled about $150,000, and literally the next day [MOCA] let that person go.

I can’t imagine any board member writing a check for $150,000 and having them turn around and let that person whose program you’re supporting go.  That to me was very insulting.”

Bad fundraising.

P.S. Opie is still editing photos of Elizabeth Taylor’s house and jewels!

Image: Self Portrait, 1993.
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

“I can dance all night in a club and never bump into anyone.” - Mark Bradford

Benjamin Millepied gets pretty close to some of those paintings though.

I wonder if this will be included in MOCA’s A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California.

Still from Kenneth Anger’s Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, 1954. The “Scarlet Woman.”

Another NYTimes article on LA’s arts scene; once again Jeffrey Deitch goes on the defensive.  Predictable.

Well this is awkward.  Paul Schimmel at the opening of his last MOCA show, Destroy the Picture.

The best part of MOCA finally launching it’s youtube channel, the free 3-month membership.