Archive | January 11, 2010

What’s so wrong with Deitch at MoCA?

by on January 11, 2010 in Artworld Salon



UPDATE: It’s official. Deitch is the new director of MoCA.
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The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), which barely survived closing last year, is rumored to be close to announcing that they will appoint New York art dealer Jeffrey Deitch as their new director. (Other hats still in the …

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Chaim Soutine’s Carcass Paintings – Part 2

by on January 11, 2010 in Art & Perception



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In the book, Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl, Yekhezkel Kotik shares his memories of living in a shtetl not far from Soutine’s home of Smilovitchi in what is now Lithuania and what was once the part of Tsarist Russia that held on desperately to …

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