Klaus Biesenbach, the new director of Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art, says 'the creative community is my reason for being here'
Klaus Biesenbach, the 52-year-old New York curator and museum director hired last summer to direct Los Angeles’s Museum of Contemporary Art, isn’t exactly a Californian yet. He doesn’t know how to drive, sunburns easily and still dresses in head-to-toe navy or black.
After years as chief curator of New York’s Museum of Modern Art and director of its edgy offshoot in Queens, MoMA PS1, Mr. Biesenbach, who was born and raised in Germany, has decamped to the West Coast. However, his Instagram account is still populated by skyscrapers...
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