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Article: Direct hit.(Preview Summer '99)(Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art's new director, Jeremy Strick)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- May 1, 1999
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When the news broke this March that Jeremy Strick had been named the new director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, hardly a ripple was felt in art-world waters, although there was a strong undercurrent of curiosity. After more than fifteen years of high-energy leadership under Richard Koshalek, during which the museum went from a startup with $50,000 in the bank to an international venue with a $50 million endowment, why Strick, a comparative unknown? But word spread quickly: This curator of twentieth-century painting and sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago (formerly of the National Gallery and trained at Harvard) is enormously respected, even if he is ...