Art Market Monitor

Lindsay Pollock plays a parlor game drawing up a short list for the directorship of the reformed LA MoCA museum:

So who might be MOCA’s next director? Here are some of the names rumored to be in the running:

Thelma Golden – Director Studio Museum in Harlem since 2005

Sam Keller – Director Fondation Beyeler since 2008

Tobias Meyer- Head Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Department since 1997

Ann Philbin – Director Hammer Museum since 1998

Philbin, Keller Among MoCA Contenders (Lindsay Pollock)

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