Late last year, LA’s flagship Museum of Contemporary Art was gasping for money like a dying fish. Tragedy has been avoided with $30 million from Eli Broad, and further support rallied since. Throughout this crisis, MOCA’s world-beating exhibitions, including Martin Kippenberger and Marlene Dumas retrospectives, WACK! and © MURAKAMI, were touring the globe. Now breathing a little again, MOCA and Chief Curator Paul Schimmel will be focusing on home turf, with the hugely ambitious exhibition Wasteland: Art After Earth Art (including a mega-installation in the Mojave Desert by Christoph Büchel – yikes), a Jack Goldstein retrospective and a bold reappraisal of 1970s California art.