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December 4, 2014 Rhett Jones

Miley Cyrus’s art career just got a big bump in the city of doing bumps. She brought her work to Miami Art Basel on Wednesday to a show that was partly organized by art world royalty/court jester Jeffrey Deitch. Cyrus first started showing art earlier this fall on September 11th at 11 Mercer Street. She displayed bongs […]

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September 10, 2013 Bucky Turco

Imagine my surprise in opening the catalog for “Calligraffiti,” Jeffrey Deitch and Leila Heller’s recently opened graffiti show, to see the front and back inside covers adorned with images of wrongly attributed, graffiti-tagged canvasses that I helped facilitate about 11 years ago. “Michael Anderson’s Studio Visits by the Writers I, (detail) 1983-84,” reads the incorrect description. […]

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August 20, 2013 Marina Galperina

Jeffrey Deitch is coming back to New York and he’s doing a graffiti show, sort of. It looks interesting. His highly hyped street art exhibit that one time was dampened by a questionable incident *cough BLU cough* and his overall stint as the director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art lead to questions regarding his […]

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August 5, 2013 Marina Galperina

The much-anticipated Jeff Koons retrospective isn’t coming to MoCA as planned for this coming January. Instead, the retrospective will debut at the Whitney in New York in June 2014, then travel to the Centre Pompidou in Paris in October 2014. It’s not entirely cancelled — a MOCA rep tried to quell the ripple of confusion and balloon jokes […]

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July 29, 2013 Kyle Chayka

A new video interview with the back-home-to-NYC-bound director of L.A.’s MoCA museum Jeffrey Deitch has just surfaced in which he is being interviewed by filmmaker Jesse Dylan, son of the well-known singer, songwriter, and recent portrait painter Bob Dylan. During the course of the six-minute interview, Deitch explains what it was like seeing the first artwork […]

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July 24, 2013 Kyle Chayka

According to an unnamed MOCA trustee, Jeffrey Deitch, the current director of L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art and former director of Deitch Projects has announced his expected departure from the museum. As he explained to museum board members, “It’s not you, it’s me.” The art dealer/curator had assumed the position as museum director three years ago (with a five-year […]

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