Paul Schimmel was fired at MOCA - it was the end of the fiscal year and they tightened the belt. IT is easier to have a corporate sponsor pay a guest celebrity curator - the curating has been outsourced. The design department is outsourced to Sheppard Fairey’s design company, the education department gets grants and therefore competes with the Board for power so people there are being hacked away left and right, but the cutting off of Schimmel is a bold move by the Jeffrey Deitch Eli Broad consortium to advance the outsourced party time event based museum that will not function as a repository of great art but of great parties.

If Moca is downsized into a celebrity-curated kunsthalle style circus, it will give the blue chip Broad across the street more Gravitas. And then of course when MOCA is broke yet again - who will save MOCA by purchasing the best paintings in the collection because the museum is more concerned with event programming? The Broad Museum across the street of course.