Jeffrey Deitch, the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, has made it rain. (Patrick McMullan Company)
For today, Jeffrey Deitch is the king of Los Angeles.
The L.A. Museum of Contemporary Art, which is run by Mr. Deitch, a former New York art dealer, announced today that its street-art exhibition, “Art in the Streets,” attracted 201,352 visitors during its April 17-Aug. 8, 2011, run.
The exhibition now ranks as the most-visited exhibition in the museum’s history, edging past its 2002 Andy Warhol retrospective, which brought in 195,000 visitors.
While the number is not quite on par with the almost 700,000 people that went to the just-closed Alexander McQueen retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it certainly is good news for Mr. Deitch, who has made increasing attendance at the museum a priority since starting there last year.
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