QUICK TAKES - July 1, 2009

The Museum of Contemporary Art has elected three new trustees: writer-producer Darren Star, whose credits include “Sex and the City,” “Melrose Place” and “Beverly Hills, 90210”; Carolyn Clark Powers, who also is on the collectors’ committee at the L.A. County Museum of Art; and Marc I. Stern, an investment executive who chairs Los Angeles Opera and is a board member of the Music Center, California Science Center and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington.

In other MOCA board business, trustees re-elected Jeffrey Soros as president. Fred Sands, who recently donated $2 million, was chosen as vice president.

-- Mike Boehm