López serves on the board of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and as vice chairman of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, where, with its past president Jeffrey Soros, he led a fund-raising drive in 2013 to establish a $100 million endowment. In a recent interview at his midcentury Los Angeles home, López talked about developing his deep love for art. For 12 years, starting in 1994, you ran the contemporary art gallery Chac Mool in Los Angeles with Esthella, who has remained your art adviser. Every piece that came to the gallery, I didn’t want to let it go. I lied to my father about going to the factory for machinery in Dallas when I was really going to the Menil Collection opening [in Houston].

Source: New York Times July 05, 2021 15:33 UTC