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William Poundstone has some interesting speculation about the Marciano Art Foundation which is set to be opened in the Spring of 2017. Given the Marciano brothers previous statements that Los Angeles doesn’t need another museum in the Hammer, MoCA or Broad mold, it remains to be see what the 1500 works assembled in the last seven years contains. But Poundstone has some educated guesses:Continue Reading
If this New York Times story on the Marciano Brothers’ private museum is to be believed, the jeans magnates got back into art collecting in relative hurray amassing a trove of a thousand or so art works, the bulk of which seem to have been bought in five years since the Murakami show in Los Angeles which sparked something within the brothers:
Maurice and Paul began collecting art around 1990. They started with Impressionist pieces but soon moved to the contemporary art market and sold the older works.
“If we had collected only Impressionists, today we would have only a few pieces, instead of hundreds of pieces,” Maurice Marciano said.
[…] Paul Schimmel, the vice president of the Hauser & Wirth gallery here and the former chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, said Maurice Marciano’s interest in art was revived when he toured a Takashi Murakami show at the museum in 2008.Continue Reading
