Ann Johansson for The New York Times
Calling him a “risk-taker” for mounting a major show of street art, the New York Times continued its love affair with Jeffrey Deitch, while the best that the Los Angeles press can muster is complaints about the graffiti brought on by the exhibition. Times contributor Guy Trebay paints an exciting picture of the opening of Art in the Streets at the Museum of Contemporary Art in LA and pulls in quotes about Deitch from mega-collector and MOCA’s founding chairman Eli Broad, who said, “We wanted someone who was, call it what you want, a game-changer,” while stating that what the museum was seeking when they hired him as the new director was “an impresario.”