The promised LAND

"Momin chalks up her L.A. move to a bit of a Wild West fantasy. “[L.A.] is a place where you choose how you want things to be, and there’s an idea that you can actually make it happen,” she says. (W, nov 09)

Shamim Momin, former contemporary curator of the Whitney, has founded the non-profit art organization LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) along with Christine Kim (curator at LACMA) .

According to their statement, "LAND is a public art initiative committed to commissioning and producing site- and situation-specific projects with national and international artists, in Los Angeles and beyond."

"So last fall she and Christine Y. Kim... began holding salons at Kim’s home. The get-togethers “started with tea and ended with wine,” according to Kim, and included seasoned artists Mark Bradford and Glenn Kaino, and Olga Garay, the executive director of the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs, among others. The conversations sparked Momin’s new venture, a “museum at large” called the Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND)."
(Thompson, W magazine)