When I was just learning to be a photographer (a million years ago) one of my teachers saw the kind of work I was doing (black and white images of my friends around my hometown) and told me I should check out Robert Frank’s “The Americans”.
When Eli Broad announced recently in a Times opinion piece that he wanted to help bail out the financially woebegone Museum of Contemporary Art by making a $30-million “investment” in its rescue, his choice of words made some wonder what he might want in return.
Looks like our beloved MOCA Gallery could be on the verge of bankruptcy unless someone steps in with a large sum of money to keep the venue running..
Quote from Artnet-
MELTDOWN AT MOCA?
One minute we’re cheering the latest exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [see "Drunken Master," Nov. 19, 2008], the next minute [...]