Chancellor Howard Gillman is expected to announce Wednesday the formation of the UCI Museum and Institute for California Art, or MICA, with the Buck Collection as its core. The Buck Collection includes scores of artists, among them Wallace Berman, Robert Irwin and John McLaughlin. The collection’s 20th-century span made it an unsuitable bequest for a strictly contemporary art museum. Smaller area institutions where Buck often lent art for exhibitions — Laguna Art Museum, Orange County Museum of Art and Palm Springs Art Museum among them — had expressed interest in the collection. The Buck Collection is unprecedented in scope but not comprehensive.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 15, 2017 10:52 UTC