Mercedes ongoing content series The Avant/Garde Diaries this week profiles Jeffrey Deitch. For more than four decades now, Jeffrey Deitch has been a major player in the US art scene. The dealer, advisor, writer and exhibition organizer started his career in the New York of the 70s when the art community was still very small. During…

Art in the Streets is a new Rizzoli title due for release April 2011. Written by Jeffrey Deitch, Roger Gastman and Aaron Rose, traces the birth and dissemination of styles through “writers” and street artists around the world—including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Blu, Martha Cooper, Shepard Fairey, Stelios Faitakis, Futura, Phil Frost, Os Gemeos, Keith Haring, Todd…

As we reported the other day, the weekend was full of rumours around the possibility that Jeffrey Deitch would be announced as the newest Director of Los Angelese MOCA. The rumours have been confirmed, and it was announced today by MOCA that from June 1st Deitch will take the helm. The big question around this…