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Deitch Eyes SoCal Empire

September 8, 2010 by Marion Maneker

LA MoCA is considering taking over the operation of Los Angeles’s Municipal Art Gallery:

MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch has toured the 10,000-square-foot gallery with curators on his staff, said Olga Garay, executive director of the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs. She expects MOCA to submit a proposal to run the venerable gallery, which was established in 1951 and has occupied its current hilltop building near Frank Lloyd Wright‘s Hollyhock House since the early 1970s. It would give the museum a geographical steppingstone between its two downtown facilities and its Westside outpost at the Pacific Design Center. MOCA officials did not respond to a request for comment.Continue Reading

Checking in with Deitch

July 6, 2010 by Marion Maneker

The New York Times’s Randy Kennedy hitched a ride on the Deitch Express as it barrels toward LA. Meanwhile, back in New York, there are still some loose ends that need tying:

The transition was made much more complicated by the kind of gallery Mr. Deitch ran. It had moneymakers on its roster but also a couple of garage bands’ worth of young artists whom Mr. Deitch supported, more as patron than dealer, with the considerable money he made brokering huge sales in the secondary market — a skill aided by his Harvard M.B.A.

“There are millions in advances that I’ve given to artists over the years,” he said, in exchange for promises that they would repay him if they became successful. Continue Reading

Deitch Goes Out in Style

May 18, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Jeffrey Deitch’s last days as a gallerist before taking over as director of LA’s MoCA are turning into an eventful time. He bought some art at the sales last week–and this video has become a You Tube hit.

Art is Deitch's Asset

March 22, 2010 by Marion Maneker

It’s a measure of the suspicion toward the art market that is held by so many in the art world that Jeffrey Deitch’s announcement that he plans to sell some of his gallery holdings to meet financial commitments from his business as a dealer is being treated as an admission that he plans to continue art dealing after taking his post as LA’s MoCA.

The LA Times’s Mike Boehm ran a story late last week that included Deitch’s explanation of why and how he would sell works.

Now, Deitch says he expects that when he starts at MOCA he will still have “a few hundred works” on his hands that currently belong to Deitch Projects and that he expects to fold them into his personal collection. He said he planned to go on selling some of those — under protocols previously worked out with MOCA’s board that apply when he sells pieces from his personal art holdings.Continue Reading

Hitler’s Bunker Meme Gets Arty

February 15, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Linda Yablonsky discovers the Hitler’s bunker meme, a clip from a 2004 movie about Hitler’s downfall that has become the standard way to express frustration and disgust with prominent decisions. Recent versions have hilariously covered Conan O’Brien and disappointment over the iPad. Here’s Yablonsky on the latest version:Continue Reading

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