MOCA accepts Broad bucks, stays independent
- Charles Young was Andrea Rich's boss at UCLA. The last non-artsy administrator to run a major museum was Rich, at LACMA. That didn't go so well. The rash of non-arts people running museums was a 1990s management fad, and one that worked so poorly that it's almost-completely gone away. Here's hoping that Young is a mere transitional figure. This should go without saying: The nation's best contemporary art museum deserves art-smart leadership.
- Inexplicably, so far none of the MOCA trustees who put the museum in dire straits have resigned. Is there no responsibility ethic? (As I've said before, Tom Unterman apparently does not understand enough about museums to serve as a board chairman. He should be the first to go.)
- LACMA made a big, loud, splashy public bid to try to deprive Los Angeles of the nation's top contemporary art museum. It was bold move, it was ill-advised, and it was predatory. LACMA lost. It looked bad in the process. Call it LACMA boss Michael Govan's most public failure. In the last couple years Govan has been involved in two high-stakes gambits: His departure from Dia and subsequent move to LA, and the MOCA bid. He left Dia a bit of a mess, its most important board member feeling betrayed and disillusioned. And now this.
- What does MOCA do next? It needs more money than has been discussed so far in order to be stable. It needs an endowment drive, a permanent collection-display plan, and a director who can transition the museum away from a two-headed leadership structure.
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