Whitewash at MOCA: Downtown News Breaks Story Waiting to Go National

It (absurdly) hasn’t gone national yet, but the Downtown News’ Ryan Vaillancourt broke a story late last week that you should be hearing more about soon.

It seems that in advance of an upcoming street art show, MOCA commissioned Italian artist Blu to create a giant mural on the wall of MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary. The artist complied, producing a mural depicting coffins draped in dollar bills. But only a short while after finishing the piece, the museum inexplicably decided to whitewash the work.

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A MOCA spokeswoman would not comment on the whitewashing, but the piece may have struck a delicate nerve center that sits just steps from the wall.

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