MOCA in Peril: Don't Ask for Whom the Bell Tolls

Rumors about the financial difficulties at LA's Museum of Contemporary Art have been circulating for a few years, but the institution, much
admired for its cutting edge exhibition program, has maintained a brave
face. The museum continued to mount exhibitions in all three of its
facilities –- two large spaces downtown and a smaller one at the
Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. Ambitious exhibitions were
accompanied by thick, scholarly catalogues, well designed and obviously
expensively produced. So, maybe these rumors were unsubstantiated;
after all, in the last few years the museum, instead of cutting its
staff, actually expanded it...