Cookies to the Rescue!
What did we mommies do when we wanted to show support for our children’s school?
We held a bake sale! (Baking’s not one of my talents. I brought the soda.)
So some inspired wags have timed a bit of pastry patronage to take place outside the financially starved LA MOCA right before today’s crucial board meeting that may determine its fate. Trustees may want to pick up some sweet sustenance on the way to their conclave. The price: $1 million per item.
Christopher Knight of the LA Times has the skinny, as well as photos of these delicacies, mouthwateringly arrayed in the newspaper’s Culture Monster blog:
In addition to the Giacometti-style baguettes…there will be cakes adorned with images by Jasper Johns
and Judy Fiskin, Vija Celmins “Night Sky” brownies and iced graham
crackers derived from works by Lawrence Weiner and Christopher Wool.
Let’s hope the trustees’ solution to their institution’s crisis isn’t half-baked: Mike Boehm reported yesterday on Culture Monster that two trustees—co-chairman Tom Unterman and longtime member Jane Nathanson—have indicated that while deaccessioning is not their preferred option, they haven’t ruled it out.