Perhaps LACMA director Jeffrey Deitch thought it would be a good idea...
Trying to follow in the footsteps of artists that turned their own lives into all-encompassing art experiments (i.e. Warhol, Koons, Barney), the new MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch has appeared in a mini-documentary of his own nesting habits. Touring the viewer through his relatively unfurnished home, a newly-acquired Spanish revival mansion, the director explains how much care has gone instead into fastidiously installing art appropriate for Hollywood-style parties and tasteful living.
Was this a good idea? I mean, it's not the Factory era anymore. Hard to imagine that in the midst of the housing crisis, some of the artists that once lived—and documented—very visible displays of conspicuous consumption would be doing the same in 2010. Somehow Deitch seems to still live in the New York bubble, even though he has relocated to LA.
[And meanwhile, some of the best art in LA is slipping away—or one could say lacking housing?—perhaps because there are conflicting interests between the gallerist-cum-directors out there, who have competing demands between creation of value and public display of art. Read
Judge for yourself... Youtube | via Culturemonster and LaSirenedelaMer
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What you mean "we" Deitch?
He's the Director of MOCA, no?
Yes. Thx, fixed...
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