The Heat Reduced After Mural Fiasco, LA MOCA Officially Announces Street Art Exhibition

Still in his first year as the new head of Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art, former dealer Jeffrey Deitch dogged a bullet to some degree with his first major blunder. You’ll recall that as he was getting lots of local and web attention for his decision to paint over a mural by a street artist the museum itself commissioned but later worried would be too controversial, all of it was largely overshadowed by the raging controversy on the other side of the country, as the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian were still trying to repair damage from their