September 07, 2013 Foreground: Pavilion by Tom Wiscombe Design, Middleground: Textile Room Pavilion by P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S at The Museum of Contemparary Art, Los Angeles. Image © Taiyo Watanabe The Getty’sPacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.hostedA. Quincy Jones:...
Eli Broad (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) MOCA nearly collapses as its onetime $38.2-million endowment drops to $5 million in the global financial meltdown. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art offers to absorb MOCA, but Eli Broad pledges $15 million for exhibitions over five years and up...
“Olafur Eliasson: OPEN” debuted Sunday in Little Tokyo, where it fills the primary warehouse space at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. One among more than 70 exhibitions around Southern California in the Getty Foundation-sponsored“PST Art: Art & Science Collide,”it is scheduled for...
(July 2010) With the iconic actor-artist’s health rapidly deteriorating, Deitch’s firstMOCAshow, curated by Julian Schnabel, is put together in five months where other exhibitions take years to curate. Some love Hopper’s work, but the rush-job nature of the show and its celebrity aspect...
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM AT MOCA Coinciding with the exhibitionCameron: Songs for the Witch Woman, Los Angeles Filmforum at MOCA presents a program of short films by female filmmakers that explore heightened states of observation and consciousness, running the gamut of ecstatic audiovisual expression. ...
In recent years, the museum has averaged 250,000 visits annually to view critically acclaimed exhibitions and a collection boasting works by such post-World War II masters as Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg and Mark Rothko. By one important measure -- “unrestricted assets,” money that can...
In a black and white dress that matched Baldessari’s ground-breaking “I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art” piece projected on the walls of the giant white tent housing about 770 guests, Monae certainly appreciated Baldessari’s body of work, which includes some 377 solo exhibitions, 1,500...
In 1986, architect Arata Isozaki completed the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (MOCA) with Los Angeles popular culture in mind.
Edmunds, who previously ran the Center for the Art of Performance at the University of California, Los Angeles, said much of the new funding has come from her philanthropic connections in the performing arts world. “I was like, ‘Y’all want to ...
Edmunds, who previously ran the Center for the Art of Performance at the University of California, Los Angeles, said much of the new funding has come from her philanthropic connections in the performing arts world. “I was like, ‘Y’all want to have some impact? Come on over,’” said...