The most telling image at the Museum of Contemporary Art’s 30th anniversary gala wasn’t hanging on a wall. It was a vignette that a few early guests might have seen: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie gazing intently at a Mark Rothko painting during a private tour.
For MOCA, which recently made what Eli Broad called one of the “biggest turnarounds in the history of the art world,” the sight of one of pop culture’s most royal couples taking in one of Abstract Expressionism’s most influential pioneers was just the kind of image the museum was trying to project at Saturday night’s lavish affair.
It was a night that celebrated celebrity and its magnetic power as much as MOCA’s breathtaking permanent collection, displayed in the museum’s biggest exhibition to date.
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