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Again, a critical pan, it was thrilling to see MOCA packed with families in a wide ethnic and class mix. Next came Art in the Streets, MOCA's show on graffiti and street art, which broke all attendance records. The public was engaged, walking around with their charts describing each photo in the salon style gallery. The show was uninspired and baffling to most visitors and panned by critics, but the two times I was there, the room with his photographs was packed. But Dennis Hopper was an LA icon and at that time seriously ill, so the idea of having a retrospective of his work, must have seemed like a good plan. Believe me when I say the general public has no clue who Jack Goldstein is and more honestly, couldn't care less. There is something monumental about seeing that big ol' boulder set in the cityscape, with palm trees in the background and traffic flying down 6th street, and knowing that it will be there for the next 3,500 years.Įarly upon Deitch's arrival to MOCA, the Jack Goldstein show was canceled to be replaced by a Dennis Hopper show. But I did feel a bit of fear as I passed directly underneath the 340-ton piece of granite, ugly earthquake proof supports and all.
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I overheard someone say that it didn't look like it was levitating - true that. People touched the rock, took pictures in front of it, angled themselves to look like they were holding it (a la John Baldesarri) and wandered underneath.
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I noticed that people were coming from all sides of the museum to see the rock. I guess it's still true that everyone loves a parade. No one I know has had good things to say about the piece artistically but those same people were mesmerized by the transit of the rock from Riverside to the museum. My next stop was to The Rock, as everyone calls it, although formally Michael Heizer's bit of land art is called Levitated Mass.