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LA's MoCA Hopeful But Not Out of the Woods

May 8, 2009 by Marion Maneker

Mike Boehm of the Los Angeles Times brings us up to date on MoCA’s struggle to survive. In a meeting with the Charles Young, who was installed as the museums head, the Times was offered a glimpse of a promising future even while Young predicted grave danger was not past. If the museum makes it to November, there will be a celebration and a new beginning:

With a planned Nov. 14 celebration and a fanfare proclaiming a “MOCA renaissance,” he said, the museum will open a new exhibition of its permanent collection and, he hopes, announce “a number of very substantial” new donations of art. “We’ve made it a big date for us, and we’ve got to do something to justify that.

“At that time, hopefully, we’ll be able to say MOCA has gotten through its problems. . . . MOCA is back full bore,” Young said during a wide-ranging discussion with The Times’ arts staff Wednesday afternoon. [ . . . ] If hoped-for revenues don’t come through and the budget has to be pared nearer to $13 million, Young fears the museum will “begin to look like something other than the MOCA people have known, and which it ought to be.” At $15 million, he said, “we can probably do very well.”

MoCA Sees a New Beginning Near Year’s End (Los Angeles Times)

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