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If Koch Brothers Buy Major Paper, Half of Staff May Quit

Kathleen Miles | Posted 05.06.2013 | Los Angeles
Kathleen Miles

Whichever owner wins out, change is coming, and LA readers and journalists need to be paying attention. The LA Times largely decides what is LA news.

MOCA To Stay Independent

Posted 03.19.2013 | Arts

Following partnership offers from LACMA and the National Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art just announced its plan to continue as an independent...

What's Behind MOCA's Plan to Ditch LACMA for the NGA? We Have No Clue

ARTINFO | Posted 05.14.2013 | Arts
ARTINFO

The last week has been something of a rollercoaster of news about the Los Angeles museum world. First, after months -- years, even! -- of financial tu...

Steve Zimmer Defeats the Billionaire Boys Club With a Cost-Effective School Board Campaign

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.08.2013 | Los Angeles
Peter Dreier

The Zimmer-Anderson school board race attracted national attention because it was seen as a test of the effort by corporate power-brokers to run schools like businesses, a strategy that they and the media misleadingly call "school reform."

The Billionaires' Threat to California's and America's Schools

John Thompson | Posted 05.05.2013 | Los Angeles
John Thompson

Why should beliefs by some trump the democratic rights of others? It should be up to the voters, rather than the courts, to decide whether our policies based on social science or the billionaires' hunches should be the law of the land.

Who Are the Billionaires Trying to Defeat Steve Zimmer?

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.03.2013 | Los Angeles
Peter Dreier

The race for LA's District 4 seat is ground zero in this battle over the corporate take-over of public education. The outcome of Tuesday's election has national implications in terms of the billionaires' battle to reconstruct public education in the corporate mold.

In Los Angeles, An Expensive School-Reform Fight

Joy Resmovits | Posted 04.15.2013 | Los Angeles
Joy Resmovits

The nation's second-largest school district is at the center of a broader battle over the future over education reform. Since 2010, Superintendent John Deasy has run the district, implementing policies consistent with the national "education reform" movement, which pushes things such as test-based teacher evaluations and charter schools. But if the composition of the school board changes significantly, Deasy could be fired.

The United States: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Edward Goldman | Posted 02.16.2013 | Arts
Edward Goldman

With the holiday season upon us, it might be a good idea to take a bird's-eye view of the American museum scene, here in California and elsewhere across the country.

Artist Group Creates Petition To Save MOCA

Posted 07.25.2012 | Arts

Yesterday Robert Storr wrote for HuffPost Arts about "the ongoing fiasco" at the Museum of Contemporary Art in LA, but we urge you to not give up on t...

MOCA And The Art Of Being Unreasonable

Robert Storr | Posted 09.23.2012 | Arts
Robert Storr

The urgent task is to save MOCA while it is still possible. Anything less will be a tragedy for Los Angeles in its struggle to match London, New York, and the cities of the future in Asia and the Middle East

MOCA and LACMA: That's Entertainment!

Tracey Harnish | Posted 07.23.2012 | Arts
Tracey Harnish

A friend of mine said that she thinks the main reasons for LACMA's swarm of weekend museum-goers these days, can be attributed to easy parking and lots of nice outdoor hang-out space. Me? I think it's because of the spectacular attractions.

Paul Schimmel Vs. Goliath

Edward Goldman | Posted 09.17.2012 | Arts
Edward Goldman

It's been less than three weeks since Paul Schimmel, Chief Curator of MOCA, was fired and -- despite more than a dozen newspaper articles and an avalanche of reports on the Internet -- no one knows for sure what happened.

Katherine Brooks

MOCA Board Member Says Paul Schimmel Was Not Fired

HuffingtonPost.com | Katherine Brooks | Posted 06.29.2012 | Arts

The rumor mill has certainly been churning after reports from the LA Times and ARTINFO stated that the Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art...

MOCA Fires Chief Curator

The Informer | Posted 08.28.2012 | Arts

Local arts blogger Mat Gleason broke the game-changing news last night that Paul Schimmel, chief curator at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art...

Always Listen to the Billionaire

John Thompson | Posted 07.23.2012 | Home
John Thompson

Eli Broad's Education Week Commentary "Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste" proves the dictum that a journal of record should never deny a billionaire the soap box he craves, even if he offers little of substance.

California School Board Blocks Parent Takeover Bid

Reuters | Posted 05.28.2012 | Home

By Troy Anderson ADELANTO, Calif., March 28 (Reuters) - A group of activist parents in this impoverished community were thwarted again...

Hostile Takeover: Parents Seek Control Of Failing School In High-Stakes U.S. Education Reform

Reuters | Posted 05.19.2012 | Home

(Corrects information about the founding of Parent Revolution, adds that union backed anti-trigger activist in Florida, clarifies proposed structure...

We're #1!

| Will Evans | Posted 03.16.2012 | Los Angeles

This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch By Will Evans California has some of the best public disclosure of independent political s...

The Art Show

Bruce Helander | Posted 05.09.2012 | Arts
Bruce Helander

It's no surprise that this week-long event (through March 11) is a must-see exhibition on a grand and elegant scale, where many of the art dealers are as respected and well-known as the artists they represent.

Better Know A Billionaire: LA Edition (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Anna Almendrala | Posted 03.11.2012 | Los Angeles

With the release of Forbes' annual billionaires list comes another round of Better Know A Billionaire -- LA edition. Most of these men's fortunes ...

Are The Wealthy's Giving Priorities Misplaced?

Pablo Eisenberg | Posted 03.26.2012 | Impact
Pablo Eisenberg

The questions about the giving style of the wealthy come at a time when important social-service and advocacy organizations that serve low- and moderate-income people throughout the country are being forced either to reduce their programs or to shut their doors.

MOCA To Launch Original Video Channel

The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 01.19.2012 | Arts

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...

The Shifting Focus of Publicity in the Art World

Daniel Grant | Posted 01.30.2012 | Arts
Daniel Grant

At times, publicity becomes the art itself, with the public knowing that it should appreciate some work because "it's famous" rather than because it's good, distorting the entire experience of art.

Art in the Ownership Society

Sam Chaltain | Posted 01.22.2012 | Arts
Sam Chaltain

The core questions animating the MOCA event weren't representative of any shared vision of the world; they were reflective of an ersatz veneration of the art of the spectacle itself.

PAY UP: Billionaires Want To Increase Your Taxes By $10 Billion

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 11.21.2011 | Los Angeles

A group of some of California's most powerful billionaires say they plan on putting a $10-billion tax increase on the November 2012 ballot. Calling it...