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    New MOCA director Klaus Biesenbach embarks on a 'civic-minded' mission to steady the museum

    by Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times Nov 12, 2018 5 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - It's been just three weeks since Klaus Biesenbach took the reins at Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art, and the new director is still settling into his Grand Avenue office. It's a spare space, with a modest conference table in the center and wrinkled maps of L.A. laid out on the plush, gray carpet - but little else. Biensenbach could have hung precious art from MOCA's collection to decorate the room, but his freshly painted white walls are noticeably blank.

    Instead, two large picture windows are flung wide open, each offering a square of sunlight and a patch of ever-shifting street life below, in MOCA's courtyard. That's the exhibition on view, as if pieces of moving, contemporary video art inside window frames.

    "I open the window to understand," says Biesenbach, 52, a native of West Germany. "I want, at

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