Abu Dhabi Art Dealer Allegedly Hawks Covid-19 Vaccines, Morán Morán to Mexico City, and More: Morning Links from April 20, 2021
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MOCA Los Angeles
At MOCA Los Angeles, Workers Push to Unionize, Joining a Growing Movement
"We do not believe that this union is in the best interest of our employees or the museum," a spokesperson for the museum said.
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MOCA Los Angeles Names Mia Locks Senior Curator and Head of New Initiatives
The co-curator of the 2017 Whitney Biennial is heading westward.
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Report: Helen Molesworth Fired as Chief Curator of MOCA Los Angeles
She joined the museum in 2014.
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MOCA Los Angeles Adds Amanda Hunt, Anna Katz to Curatorial Staff
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles has made two recent curatorial hires: Amanda Hunt, who will now be the museum’s director of education and public programs, and Anna Katz, who will…
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Getty Announces 24 New Partners, $1.25 M. in Funding for Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA
Today the Getty Foundation announced an increase in funding, as well as expanded programming, for the third edition of its region-wide art initiative, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA…
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L.A. MOCA Elects Hard Rock Café Founder Peter Morton as Trustee
The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles announced today that Peter Morton will now be a member of its board of trustees. The board is currently co-chaired by Maurice Marciano and…
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The Painter of Modern Life: Kerry James Marshall Aims to Get More Images of Black Figures into Museums
The artist will be the subject of major traveling retrospective this year
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L.A. Story: Catherine Opie on Her Controversial Photographs of Los Angeles Subcultures, in 1998
In honor of her two shows at Lehmann Maupin and her show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles opening this weekend, below is a profile of Catherine Opie from the September 1998…
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Noah Davis, Los Angeles Painter and Founder of the Underground Museum, Dies at 32
Noah Davis, the Los Angeles–based painter of surreal, post-racial images and the founder of the nonprofit space the Underground Museum, has died at 32. Davis’s cause of death has not…
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