In an abrupt and still-inconclusive series of events, MOCA has apparently turned on itself. As a prelude to Art in the Street, the museum’s heralded upcoming street art exhibition, Italian artist Blu fully covered the north-facing wall of the Geffen Contemporary with a mural. Shortly after the artist had completed the work, however, the museum began to whitewash the wall.
The piece depicted a series of coffins draped with one-dollar bills, a blatant replacement of the traditional display of the American flag during military funerals. Los Angeles Downtown News speculates that this may have proven offensive to the nearby Veterans Administration health care building, but the organization states that no complaints were made to MOCA. So far, MOCA has made no public statements regarding the erasure.
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If I were a rich man…
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All DAY LOng…
There should never be anyone but Sheepherd Fairy on MOCA walls. Meaningless, Ordinary, Crappy, AfRT
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We know where Jeffrey Deitch stands. Blu’s mural directly addresses HOW money makes the world go around. It’s a simple, even adolescent idea – but it’s striking and effective. It offended art banker, Jeffery Deitch, and without further discussion with the artist, the neighborhood or anyone – he destroyed it. A tantrum from the right, police action as art institutional policy.
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