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MOCA says it has hit $75-million mark for endowment, and names donors
Trustees of the Museum of Contemporary Art announced Wednesday that they have raised more than $50 million since the middle of March for the museum’s endowment. A larger endowment is widely seen as the first step to turning around the troubled...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Arts, Museums
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Quick Takes: Reebok drops rapper
Rick Ross' controversial lyrics that seemed to promote date rape have resulted in the superstar rapper-mogul being dropped as a spokesman for Reebok. After intense pressure from a number of organizations, including anti-sexism collective UltraViolet,...Tags: Jim Rome, Television, Jenni Rivera, Manufacturing and Engineering, Music Industry
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Three new names on MOCA board
Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art has appointed three new trustees, including Bruce Karatz, the former chief executive of KB Homes who was convicted three years ago on four felony counts of failing to disclose the backdating of stock options. Also...
Tags: Trials, Local Elections, Michael Eisner, Antonio Villaraigosa, Richard Riordan
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MOCA adds three to board of trustees
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles announced Wednesday that it has added three people to its board of trustees. Their election comes at a still-vulnerable time for the museum, which has been dealing with financial problems in recent years....
Tags: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Economy, Business and Finance, Arts and Culture, Corporate Officers, Companies and Corporations
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MOCA's Deitch to New York Post: LACMA takeover still an option
Is Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art all-in when it comes to its own independence? The question arises from a recent comment by museum director Jeffrey Deitch in the New York Post. MOCA this week announced the launch of "MOCA Independence,...
Tags: Elections, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Artists, Washington, DC, Arts and Culture
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Inland Empire school district repeats as finalist for academic prize
The Corona-Norco Unified School District was named as a finalist Thursday for the prestigious Broad Prize, which honors academic excellence by minority and low-income students in urban districts across the nation. The Riverside County district is one of...Tags: Students, Vicodin (drug), Teaching and Learning, Personal Income, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida)
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MOCA goes for the money
It looks like the trustees of the Museum of Contemporary Art have put their money where their mouths are. They have been talking about an ambitious plan to quadruple the roughly $23 million endowment to $100 million, and on Tuesday, they put out an...
Tags: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Artists, Arts and Culture, Politics, Interior Policy
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Saving MOCA
In the three decades since the Museum of Contemporary Art opened in a temporary space downtown in 1983, it has been variously flush with money and desperate for a bailout after having squandered its endowment. It's had great directors and controversial...
Tags: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Artists, Arts and Culture, University of Southern California, Arts
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MOCA-National Gallery of Art deal is an empty prospect
A proposed five-year collaboration deal between the troubled Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is, to use a critically astute technical term, a big, fat nothing-burger. The plan...Tags: Artists, Economy, Business and Finance, Symptoms, Sculpture, Washington, DC
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Eli Broad remains a player in LACMA's proposed takeover of MOCA
Michael Govan came to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art seven years ago with a mission to make it one of the most prestigious institutions in the country, one worth mentioning alongside New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern...
Tags: Artists, Washington, DC, Arts and Culture, World War II (1939-1945), Computing and Information Technology Industry
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L.A.'s civic disengagement
At first glance, two stories much in the news in Los Angeles of late would seem to have nothing to do with each other. The first concerns the fate of the Museum of Contemporary Art — whether it will affiliate with the Los Angeles County Museum of...
Tags: Local Elections, Elections, The Washington Post, Arts and Culture, Judaism
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Labor leader says L.A. like 'ghost town' before AEG's Leiweke arrived
L.A. NOWOne of L.A.' most important labor leaders said Anschutz Entertainment Group's departing chief executive Tim Leiweke set a new precedent for how developers could work with labor unions in the city....
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