What should have been a celebratory moment for Los Angeles and the museum turned into a botched transition of power and an embarrassment for the institution’s new leader. On Tuesday, MOCA offered answers in an email: It confirmed that former director (then artistic director) Klaus Biesenbach is headed to Berlin, and newly hired executive director Johanna Burton - who was to co-lead the museum with Biesenbach - has been named sole director.īurton is the first female director in MOCA’s 42-year-history. “What’s happening over at MOCA?” That was the question of the week as top-level leadership changes at the museum unfolded in a chaotic manner. We’ve been busy on every level.” In other museum news. “It’s exciting,” Jackson-Dumont said of all the momentum. The works touch on themes of neighborhood and community, family and friendship. ![]() artist Luis Mateo to create narrative art for the fence. The art is by 21 local students who worked with muralist Noni Olabisi and L.A. ![]() Baca’s archive documenting the making her epic, half-mile-long mural, “The Great Wall of Los Angeles.” She’s the first female muralist represented in the museum’s collection.Īnd if you’re intrigued by the colorful art on the museum’s construction fence along Bill Robertson Lane, that’s a project between the Lucas Museum and arts nonprofit L.A. This spring it acquired a nearly 3,000-object collection of artworks and other materials by Mexican political lithographer José Guadalupe Posada. The museum has also added several archives to its collection. I think this is the “Mona Lisa” of Mexico, it’s beautiful.” We’re looking forward to inviting people to discuss this work, see this work. There’s a thorn necklace around the neck, the earrings were a gift from Picasso, the banner inscribed with a dedication to the physician that helped her during her time in the Bay Area. “It was painted during a particularly tumultuous time in her life, and it incorporates images that tell about aspects of her experiences. “It’s one of her most important works,” Jackson-Dumont said. Eloesser) (1940), which was included in the de Young Museum’s recent exhibition “Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving.” ![]() Eloesser” (Self Portrait Dedicated to Dr. It’s also added contemporary works by Southern California artists to its permanent collection, including Cara Romero’s “The Last Indian Market” (2015) and Criselda Vasquez’s “The New American Gothic” (2017).īut Jackson-Dumont may be most excited about a work the museum acquired in late 2020: Frida Kahlo’s “Autorretrato Dedicado al Dr. Earlier this month it acquired Alice Neel’spainting “Fish Market” (1947), which was part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s recent retrospective, “Alice Neel: People Come First.” In May the Lucas Museum acquired Robert Colescott’s 1975 painting “George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page From an American History Textbook,” which Jackson-Dumont calls a vehicle “to explore and unpack racially, socially and historically charged and significant figures.” The Lucas Museum also is beefing up its collection. It’s photography, it’s painting, it’s sculpture, it’s ephemera from newspapers and magazines, it’s all of those things.” Narrative art, she added, “cuts across space and time and really is about visual storytelling through a range of material. “But I’m happy to say that the only film museum in the city is the Academy Museum because the Lucas Museum is a museum dedicated to narrative art it’s not about film only.” “We’re super excited about the opening of the Academy Museum - it’s so necessary as a new addition to the Los Angeles community and it will expand the cultural landscape,” Jackson-Dumont said. But how much visitor appetite is there? And is there room for two large cinematic arts museums in one city?Ībsolutely, said Lucas Museum Director Sandra Jackson-Dumont, while also reminding everyone of an important distinction. Los Angeles has not had a major film museum until now, with the Academy Museum opening. The $1-billion Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is on track to premiere in 2023. I’ll start this week’s Essential Arts with an update on George Lucas’ spaceship of a museum rising in Exposition Park next door to the Coliseum. Hi, I’m arts writer Deborah Vankin, filling in for Carolina Miranda (whose computer keyboard, no doubt, has a few faded letters by now as well). But what about that other filmmaker museum rising in L.A.? 30 and let’s just say the A, C, D and E keys have faded, entirely, on my computer keyboard after having typed out “Academy Museum” so frequently. You may have seen our recent swarm of stories on all things Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
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