Maurice Marciano

Maurice Marciano collects contemporary art, having acquired most of a holding of about 1,500 works. With his brother Paul he opened the Marciano Art Foundation on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles in 2017 to show it, and the foundation closed in 2019.

On record

The foundation staged large shows by Jim Shaw, Olafur Eliasson, Ai Weiwei and Donna Huanca.
It closed in November 2019, citing low attendance, days after visitor services staff announced plans to unionize, and a union complaint was filed with the National Labor Relations Board.

Questions

What does Maurice Marciano collect?Maurice Marciano collects contemporary art, having acquired most of a holding of about 1,500 works. With his brother Paul he opened the Marciano Art Foundation on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles in 2017 to show it, and the foundation closed in 2019.

Sources

Marciano Art Foundation Abruptly Closes in Wake of Unionization Effort, Hyperallergic, 2019
The Marciano masquerade is exposed, The Art Newspaper, 2019

Last verified 2026-10-31.

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