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In LAT’s art critic Christopher Knight’s open letter to MoCA trustees, he does a good job of blasting these cheap, incompetent bastards, but unfortunately he doesn’t list their names. Some of these people, like Steve Tisch, Eugenio Lopez, Eli Broad, and I’m sure others, are BILLIONAIRES!!!! One month of interest from their collective bank accounts could raise enough money to fund MoCA for a generation!!! That they will now ask for some kind of bailout for MoCA from people like us is OBSCENE, like the Big 3 automakers’ CEO’s flying via personal jet to ask for $25 billion in bailout money. It’s time for the wealthy to share in our misery. F**k them all.

From MoCA’s website, here are The Museum of Contemporary Art Board of Trustees:

Board of Trustees

David G. Johnson, Co-Chair
Tom Unterman, Co-Chair
Jeffrey Soros, President
Gil Friesen, Vice Chair

Clifford J. Einstein, Chair Emeritus
Dallas Price-Van Breda, President Emeritus

John Baldessari
William J. Bell
Arthur H. Bilger
Ruth Bloom
Fabrizio Bonanni
Blake Byrne
Charles Cohen
Kathi Cypres
Rosette V. Delug
Betty Duker
Susan Gersh
Barbara Kruger
Wonmi Kwon
Eugenio Lopez
Lillian Pierson Lovelace
Maurice Marciano
Jane F. Nathanson
Douglas R. Ring
Steven F. Roth
Ed Ruscha
Fred Sands
Larry Sanitsky
Jennifer Simchowitz
Beth Swofford
Steve Tisch
Christopher V. Walker
David L. Zimmerman, Jr.

Ex Officio Trustees
Council President Eric Garcetti
Jeremy Strick
The Honorable Antonio Villaraigosa

Life Trustees
Eli Broad
Betye Monell Burton
Beatrice Gersh
Lenore S. Greenberg
Audrey M. Irmas
Frederick M. Nicholas

@DZINEOCRAT: Especially when the ‘contemporary art’ they’re showing isn’t all that ‘contemporary’. I mean, I lervs Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Dine and Ed Ruscha as much as the next guy, but…really? Is there Nothing since?

1. - and the irony will be that no one still does modern correctly. Went to that opening exhibit of BCAM and it was mostly dreadful, MOCA wished it had more room to display its better collection, and now Eli wants the former Wilson’s House of Suede/Starbucks site to flaunt his collection.
   I like Ed Ruscha’s art as he does, but Desire is not one of his better works.
   Sheesh, indeed!

Ed Reyes is a tool, and the McCourt’s will eventually sell Dodger Stadium and move the team to Salt Lake City.

Oh they know- its going to Wall Street to pay year end bonuses.

I heard on NPR that one of the investment banks (sorry forgot which one) was schedu;ed to pay out executive bonuses that were roughly equal to the cap value of the firm.

In other words, they are raiding the piggy bank (and burning down the house) right before the adults come home from work

Tell you what #4, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, (since you’re probably the same guy), go ahead and start up your own lame-assed blog.

"No one knows if it’s a choice or not" Do you see any logical impossibilities in having an involuntary choice? This issue makes me feel like I’m in a debate with kids from the Special Ed class…A very large Special Ed class.

Lincoln Boulevard is also probably one of the slowest thoroughfares in the city so there’s lots of time for people to read these eyesores.

I’ve gotta say, if there’s no way to legally remove the billboards, perhaps some design board can have approval over them so they are at least artistically palatable. The various museum billboards – like the ones that LACMA put up – are usually quite nice, so I have no problem with them. If Ed Ruscha designed all the billboards there’d be no problem.

Ed,

Just wanted to introduce some facts into an emotionally charged subject. I know you want to scream FIRE anytime something happens to a gay person, but get some god damn perspective. Gays have been treated better than any other minority group in this country’s history. Is there progress that needs to be made? Yes. Is the way to accomplish that spreading fear and exaggeration? No. Focus on outreach and public dialogue – there’s not enough of that. I think this event will galvanize the gay community to really address their rights in a manner that will result in real change, but so far all I’m hearing about are protests in West LA. That’s not going to get it done.

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Pete, did not know you were Mormon. Interesting. But I just read Jasmyne A. Cannick’s op-ed and I was floored by her self-destructive views. I do agree with her point that the fight for gay marriage is not the same level as the fight for black civil rights in the past. But to claim that she can’t support the fight because she’s too busy trying to register black voters is mind bogglingly nonsensical. She is claiming some Pyrrhic victory on Prop 8 I suppose. She couldn’t be bothered to make a case for it, and it lost – just as Barack Obama did himself. The black people she is canvassing have the right to vote, they just choose not to exercise it. Regardless of that fact, we just elected a black man as president. But gay people do not have the right to marry, and that’s gays of all races. I’m not sure if she thinks she is adding an interesting voice to the discussion of gay marriage, but any gay person who cannot make the case as to why marriage equality is important is an unprecented idiot. Maybe she’s related to Damion Goodmon?