Deitch as Ayatollah

"An anonymous L.A. street artist spoke out Thursday about MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch's decision to paint over another artist's mural that he had commissioned -- making a statement in the form of a provocative piece of guerrilla poster art glued to the exterior wall of the restaurant Zip Fusion Sushi on Traction Avenue and Third Street in Little Tokyo...The anonymous artist asked a friend, John Carr --  a political poster artist himself and part of the street art collective Yo! Peace -- to relay a statement about the new mural to Culture Monster: 'A giant antiwar mural right in the heart of L.A.’s political district was erased by the museum staff just after it was finished. MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch claimed it was potentially offensive to the community. Can there be a more perfect example of censorship? Does it not border on Orwellianism to call it something else?"'"

Read the Los Angeles Times article HERE.