Wrong Museum Burning: Ruscha’s Exit Leaves No Artists on LA MOCA Board

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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