The rumor is now reality. LA MOCA has just issued a press release announcing the appointment of dealer Jeffrey Deitch as the museum’s new director, replacing Charles Young, the interim CEO. Deitch even gets the Glenn Lowry and Michael Govan seals of approval, as if to head off criticism that appointing a commercial dealer to lead a nonprofit art museum is unseemly or even ethically dicey.
Speaking of which, there’s no word in the press release as to what will happen to Deitch’s gallery and his personal stake in it. Details on that had better be provided, with full disclosure and transparency, at the press conference, now rescheduled for 10:30 a.m., Pacific time, tomorrow.
Will I have more to say on this soon? You know it.
The attendees at the Association of Art Museum Directors’ midwinter meeting, now in progress in chilly Sarasota, FL, have so much to talk about!