Sometimes I worry about MOCA – just what they’re up to in their underground warren of contemporary art. I’ve only been an actual MOCA member for a short while, but they don’t seem to like me very much – they managed to misspell my name as “Marshall Astro” on my membership, and now they’ve invited me to join MOCA Forever, their program for estate gifts and bequests.
The thing is, I’m 29. Isn’t this 30 years too early? Have I received mail intended for Future Marshall? Or does MOCA know something about my life expectancy that I’m not aware of? Or has MOCA’s bloodthirsty vampirism towards the sweet money-marrow contained within their members come unpleasantly to the surface?
Oh – and in a somewhat related note on museums and their relation to money, Tyler Green has a really excellent piece, Is our children stitching, and other museum issues, on the role of high value (or overvalued) works in museum collections and how that relates to their life cycle. My take on it – high value works are just a new form of spectacle for an industry and audience that’s has an unhealthy addiction to spectacle. Tyler’s also right to use the word desperate to describe the current behavior of museums to maintain their audiences.
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Interesting article, but I have to fault him for deriding the sewing circle. What better way to get people to appreciate art than by pointing out that art is something people make? No, those beginning knitters aren’t churning out masterpieces, but any one of them could someday. More to the point they are expressising their own creativity in a social setting, surrounded by good art. I think this is a good thing. I’m totally backing him up on the bingo night, though.
MOCA leaves a foul, acrid stench in my mouth.
Uppity, elitist lap dogs of over lit and over hyped art.
Sure, in the past they have had a couple of ok shows but you will find more fascinating art in a shopping mall than there.
It’s art for art dealers and collectors not other artists or people who just like to look at something interesting once in a while.
Stay home. Finger paint with the kids. Don’t go to moca.
I think you really need to get in touch with your feelings. You’re so reticent.
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