«ART IS WHAT YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH»

Jeffrey Deitch has drawn comparisons to P.T. Barnum and Andy Warhol during his 30-year stint as a New York art dealer and provocateur. There was, for example, the show in which a Ukrainian-born artist lived like a dog for a few days in his gallery. And the one that re-created an urban street, complete with check-cashing stores and overturned trucks. And another that crammed 2,000 shredded phone books into his SoHo exhibition space. Now he's been named to run L.A.'s renowned Museum of Contemporary Art.

-Los Angeles Times
Jan 18 2009