LACMA Lays Off Veteran Staffers Including Heads of Design and Publications

It was apparently housecleaning time this week at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The LA Times reports that the museum has let go “several veteran department heads,” seven in total. Director Michael Govan told the paper that the move was “not a financial belt-tightening” but was instead a method of “shifting some priorities” and “adapt to technology-driven change.” In English, that means that they let go a number of people involved with making things that weren’t going online, namely the editor of their catalogs and publications, Thomas Frick, their VP of communications and marketing, and their head of design, Amy McFarland.