Jeffrey Deitch

James Franco's New MOCA Exhibit Recreates Chateau Marmont

The Daily Truffle | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Harmony Korine, Jeffrey Deitch, Paul McCarthy, MOCA Los Angeles, Aaron Young, Moca, James Franco, Los Angeles News

James Franco wanted to make a movie about the making of Rebel without a Cause but wound up with a collaborative MOCA exhibit instead.

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James Franco Channels James Dean...Again

Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Jeffrey Deitch, Terry Richardson, Video, Paul McCarthy, James Dean, Rebel WIthout a Cause, Rebel, Slidepollajax, Moca Rebel, Harmony Korine, James Franco, Nicholas Ray, Arts News

James Franco's presence in the art and literature worlds revolve around an obsession with masculine youth in all its angsty, confused and violent glor...

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Morley Safer's Art Attack: Watch Out!

Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Morley Safer, Jeff Koons, Jeffrey Deitch, Video, Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, Christopher Wool, 60 Minutes Art, 60 Minutes, Relational Aesthetics, Morley Safer Art, Arts News

Keeping up with new developments in the art world is thrilling, but the task of keeping track of who's new on the scene, what paintings are selling fo...

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For The Love of Art and Soaps

Kalup Linzy | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Andy Warhol, Kalup Linzy, Abc, Jeffrey Deitch, The Young and the Restless, MOCA Los Angeles, Nielsen Ratings, Suzanne Geiss, General Hospital, CBS Daytime. Television, Maria Arena Bell, James Franco, Soap Operas, Video, Arts News

In 2010, I met Maria Arena Bell in New York at a going away party hosted by Suzanne Geiss for Jeffrey Deitch, before he was to head west and take up h...

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Tim Noble And Sue Webster Are Junkyard Royalty

Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Jeffrey Deitch, Trash Art, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Light-Installations, Sculpture, New Museum, UK Arts, Nick Cave, Rock and Roll Art, Arts News

Tim Noble and Sue Webster create insouciant masterpieces that flaunt a meticulous eye for detail. Their incredible shadow projections are irreverent s...

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MOCA To Launch Original Video Channel

The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: Jeffrey Deitch, Video, Art, Reality TV, Moca Tv, Moca, Museums, MOCA LA, Jeffrey Deitch Moca, Eli Broad, Arts News

Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art is hoping to tap into a popular interest in art with a new YouTube channel it's launching in July. Accordi...

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Olsen Twins Make Forbes' List Of 30 Artists Under 30

Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Jeffrey Deitch, Alexander Wang, Chuck Close, Forbes 30 Under 30, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, Moca, The Row, Street Art, Forbes Art and Design, Olsen Twins, Jr, Nicolas Fayad, Simon Doonan, Arts News

It is hard enough for a twenty-something to be able to take care of oneself, let alone establish oneself in the art world. But here are 30 artists and...

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WATCH: Abramovic's Artist Manifesto At Outrageous MOCA Gala

Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Debbie Harry, Jeffrey Deitch, Albert Brooks, Moca, Marina Abramovic, Will Ferrel, Kirsten Dunst, Performance Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Abramovic, Blondie, MOCA Gala 2011, Video, Arts News

This year's MOCA Gala 2011 was a night to remember. There were living human heads propped on serving platters, eyeing guests as they ate. There were n...

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Art Basel: Post Purism

Michael Cohen | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Miami, Style News, Paris Hilton, Jeffrey Deitch, Gareth Pugh, Art Basel, Style, Nicky Hilton, Naomi Campbell, Celebrities, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Miami News

As Art Basel Miami Beach celebrated its 10th anniversary as the world's most prominent art fair -- something the art world has been championing since ...

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Through a Lens, Starkly: Weegee's Naked Hollywood

Tom Teicholz | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Gene Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Naked Hollywood, Jeffrey Deitch, Charlie Chaplin, Naked City, Pacific Standard Time, Weegee, Hollywood, Moca, Arts News

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Art Basel: Everything But The Art

Michael Cohen | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Miami Beach, Miami, Style News, Jeffrey Deitch, Art Basel, Bruce Weber, Art Basel Miami Beach, Morocco, Vanity Fair, Design, Tilda Swinton, Maison Martin Margiela, Elle Decor, Calvin Klein, Dsquared2, Art, Culture, Style, Style News

The other part of this art worshipping ritual, and one might argue the really important part, is done in a more glamorous setting. Of course I'm referring to the Art Basel party circuit.

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PHOTOS: Fashion Juggernaut's Achingly Cool Photographs

Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Jeffrey Deitch, Photography, Fashion Photography, Karl Lagerfeld, Moca, Sky Ferreira, Christopher Owens, Hedi Slimane, La Photography, Gore Vidal, Ariel Pink, Dior, Frances Bean Cobain, Arts News

Before he was a photographer, Hedi Slimane was called the "single most influential men’s designer this century" as a designer for Dior. The mid-2000...

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LA Times Critic Slams MOCA

latimes.com | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Jeffrey Deitch, Elizabeth Taylor, Moca, Knight, Christopher Knight, Deitch, Critic Attack, Christie's, Critic Showdown, Arts News

Christie's, the international auction house with 53 offices in 32 countries, has rented out galleries in the Museum of Contemporary Art to display mov...

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PHOTOS: A Glimpse Into Elizabeth Taylor's Luxurious Life

The Huffington Post | Lucy Blodgett | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Jeffrey Deitch, Elizabeth Taylor, Video, Moca, Elizabeth Taylor Jewelry, The Richard Burton Diamond, Elizabeth Taylor Auction, Christies New York, Richard Burton, Pdc, Los Angeles News

"Elizabeth Taylor is one of the great cultural icons," Jeffrey Deitch told HuffPost at The Elizabeth Taylor Collection preview. "She is a part of our ...

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Help Us Pick the Culture Game Changers of 2011

Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Jeffrey Deitch, Zaha Hadid, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Chase Finlay, Jennifer Egan, Andrew Bolton, 2011-Game-Changers, Harold Koda, Culture News

HuffPost's Game Changers series celebrates 100 innovators, visionaries, and leaders in 12 categories who, whether working in the spotlight or under th...

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Was Basquiat's Last Work On His Drug Dealer's Door?

Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Jeffrey Deitch, Richard Marshall, Brookklyn, Gerard Basquiat, Franklin Sirmans, Fab 5 Freddy, The Whitney Museum, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf, Glenn O'Brien, Moma, New York City, Arts News

On a Saturday morning in the early summer of 1988, Jean-Michel Basquiat stepped through the doorway of a bodega on South 4th Street in Williamsburg. I...

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America's Children: Victims of Adult Vices

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Mikhail Shemyakin, Public Art, John Boehner, Smithsonian, Washington DC, Addiction, Moscow, Environmental Working Group, David Wojnarowicz, Toxic Chemicals, Jeffrey Deitch, War, Drugs, Prostitution, Alcoholism, Censorship, Arts News

"The Children, Victims of Adult Vices" is effective public art that forces us to confront our vices and how they jeopardize the future of humanity. T...

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Art in the Streets

Tamie Adaya | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: Banksy, Art in the Streets, Jeffrey Deitch, MOCA Los Angeles, Keith Haring, Street Art, Os Gemeos, La Around Town, Shepard Fairey, Moca Art in the Streets, Los Angeles News

I've always found street art fascinating. It's so magical how a talented and select few spend their nights making our city streets an ever-changing landscape.

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MOCA's Street Art Exhibit Shocking Because 'It's So Beautiful'

AP | JOHN ROGERS | Posted 07.01.2011

Read More: Jeffrey Deitch, Blu, Revok Arrest, Moca, Moca Art in the Streets 2011, Space Invader, Street Art, Graffiti, Shepard Fairey, Moca Art in the Streets, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES — It's art from the streets that's been moved into the museum, and critics are going gaga over it. Words like stunning and near-ove...

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PHOTOS: Street Artist Revok Arrested While Attempting To Leave US

Posted 06.25.2011

Read More: Jeffrey Deitch, Msk, Street Art, Vandalism, Slidepollajax, Graffiti, Lasd, La Around Town, Moca Art in the Streets, 2011 Moca Art in the Streets, Revok, Lapd, Los Angeles News

UPDATED -- Jason Williams, aka Revok, has just been sentenced to 180 days in jail for violating his probation on a previous misdemeanor charge. The LA...

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Real Street Art and L.A. Legacies

Max Benavidez | Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: Exit Through the Gift Shop, Jeffrey Deitch, Blu, Wall Street, Whitewashed, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Chicano Muralism, Street Art, Graffiti, The American Show, America Tropical, Global Art, Moca, Banksy, Asco, Chicano, Los Angeles News

You can't bring the raw energy and sheer free expression that is global street art into an institution and still label it street art.

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Artists Anonymous: The Irresistible Earnestness of the Bruce High Quality Foundation

Selby Drummond | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Cooper Union, Jeffrey Deitch, Creative Time, Rob Pruitt, Mfa, Education, Art, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Banksy, Teach 4 Amerika, Brucennial, Arts News

As sentimental as it sounds, the BHQF's most valuable offering is a community that admits, unabashedly, its love for art, and recommits itself to art daily despite all of the competition.

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LA Museum Attendance Lags Behind San Francisco And Chicago

Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Jeffrey Deitch, Moca, Annie Philbin, Hammer, La Around Town, Lacma, Michael Govan, Getty, Los Angeles Art Museums, Los Angeles News

The Art Newspaper released their annual tally (PDF) of top 100 museums worldwide based on 2010 attendance numbers, and the results are disappointing w...

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PLAN ForYourArt: February 10-16

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

The Hammer museum is presenting the first American museum survey of artist Richard Hawkins.

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January '11 L.A. Art World Gossip

Mat Gleason | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeffrey Deitch, Axl Rose, Peter Brant, Moca, Art World, Stephanie Seymour, Los Angeles, Cheech Marin, Arts News

While the economics of the Los Angeles art scene are still a long way off from the peak in 2006, the activity at exhibitions and in studios is as frenzied as ever.

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