![]() “While each organization’s structure or culture may necessitate varying the weight or reporting structure for the artistic director or the executive director, in most cases, the positions are equal on the organizational chart,” she said, adding that L.A.’s Center Theatre Group and Dance Theatre of Harlem employ dual leadership models. It’s far more common to see dual leadership in the performing arts, particularly among organizations creating original work, said Lisa Richards Toney, president of the Assn. The dual-leader model is more common in Britain, where at the Serpentine, for example, Bettina Korek is chief executive and Hans Ulrich Obrist artistic director they both report to the board. In 1995 Andrea Rich was hired as president and CEO, and a year later Graham Beal joined her as director and executive vice president - but he reported to her. Director and Chief Executive Michael Govan worked alongside President and Chief Operating Officer Melody Kanschat until she retired in 2011 - but she reported to him. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has had stints of dual leadership over the years. The curatorial staff, however, will report to the new executive director, who also will oversee daily management and operations of the finance, advancement, education, communications and human resources departments, as well as key initiatives such as the museum’s new IDEA effort, promoting inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility. 11 email to staff, “cannot best further our mission and serve our community and team.”īiesenbach, who has been director since fall 2018, will steer the artistic vision of the museum, including exhibitions, programming and the collections, the museum said. “The singular role of one director to oversee a museum of our size,” MOCA said in a Feb. The restructuring of the director role, the museum has said, is an attempt to steady the institution and to adapt to the myriad needs of the times. Though the endowment is at a high point - $150 million - the museum has said that with governmental support limited, it’s heavily reliant on private fundraising. ![]() MOCA’s revenue in the 2019-20 fiscal year dropped 26% and its membership 32%. Several key employees recently departed, one citing resistance to a diversity initiative, another a hostile work culture. Like other cultural institutions, it faces a growing call to better address diversity, equity and inclusion within its staff and in its collections. After a COVID-19 closure lasting more than a year, MOCA reopens its Grand Avenue location to members next week and to the public on June 3. MOCA did not respond to multiple requests for comment for this story. Others, however, said two directors would bring double the brain power to the museum’s leadership, and that Biesenbach’s new role played to his strengths. Their only choice was to give him a new job description.” There’s a history of firing there - both chief curators and directors - and another major firing would not have gone over well. But MOCA doesn’t have the luxury to fire anybody at that level right now. “If someone’s doing a great job, you don’t reshuffle the job. “There’s something going on,” said artist Lari Pittman, who resigned from the MOCA board in 2018. Will the new executive director really be holding the reins at the institution, which has seen four directors in 13 years? Some said two cooks in the kitchen would inevitably lead to conflict others questioned whether the unusual structure is something of a smokescreen - if, in fact, MOCA is demoting Biesenbach to a role similar to chief curator. Burton’s sense of having a deep relationship with a major museum on the West Coast may also have to do with Burton’s own background. As the Museum of Contemporary Art prepares to reopen after a historic pandemic closure, it finds itself in the midst of restructuring, moving director Klaus Biesenbach into the role of artistic director and hiring an executive director to co-run the institution with him.īut The Times has spoken with more than two dozen people including current and former MOCA employees, artists, curators and executives at other museums, and the majority were skeptical of the dual leadership model. The MOCA at Pacific Design Center closed for good on FebruBuilding and site The MOCA PDC was housed in a small sandstone-clad cubic building designed by architect Cesar Pelli at the Pacific Design Center, located in West Hollywood city, north of Los Angeles.
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