Joining John Baldessari, Catherine Opie and Barbara Kruger in a rush to the exit, Ed Ruscha, the last artist on LA MOCA’s board, resigned Monday. The troubled museum, pulled out of a financial hole by Eli Broad and resolutely headed towards a party-filled populist future, ousted noted curator Paul Schimmel a few weeks ago, starting the wave of protest resignations.
Ruscha’s Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Fire (1965)
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The hive mind of Reddit has suggested the following as possible replacements for Opie, Ruscha, Kruger and Baldessari: Banksy, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Matthew Barney, Marina Abromavic and/or Terry Richardson
Banksy wouldn’t show up.
I think Broad counts on the artist directors not showing up. (Banksy could send Mr Brainwash as his proxy, though.)