LAMOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch Depicted and Perceived as a Paint-Rolling Ayatollah

Though overshadowed by the ongoing Smithsonian/National Portrait Gallery controversy on the other side of the country, new LAMOCA director and former New York gallery gadabout, Jeffrey Deitch, is still catching heat for his decision to paint over a street artist’s mural, commissioned by the museum, nearly as soon as it was finished, fearing public outcry over its imagery. Beyond general anger on the web, the LA Times‘ Culture Monster blog reports that a mural has gone up elsewhere in Los Angeles, affixed to a street art-friendly restaurant, showing