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Blogs
April 1, 2013
MOCA to Merge With Pinterest
Beset by financial troubles and a series of staff departures, the Museum of Contemporary Art has announced a surprise move: It will merge with the social networking site Pinterest. Effective today, MOCA is closing its brick and mortar locations, including its Grand Avenue headquarters, Geffen Conte ... More >>
Blogs
March 29, 2013
What Was Contemporary Art? A New Book Asks the Question
No matter how much new art continues to appear, an age-old question remains: what makes something art? No one knows that question better than art historian, author and professor Richard Meyer. The Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History at Stanford University recently released a new book ... More >>
Blogs
March 27, 2013
Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including '90s Flashbacks
This week, it's all about looking back: One artist revisits 1993 L.A., another borrows the palette of teen pop from 20-some years ago and a museum show features graphically bold, grittily political art of the '80s. 5. What art even is When the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston changed its nam ... More >>
Blogs
March 20, 2013
MOCA Says No To LACMA Takeover
Updated at the bottom: MOCA says no. First posted at 5:25 p.m on March 7. Headline has changed. The L.A. County Museum of Art is proposing to takeover the struggling Museum of Contemporary Art downtown. LACMA CEO Michael Govan confirmed the proposal in a statement today. He calls it a possible "me ... More >>
Blogs
March 9, 2013
LACMA and MOCA's Possible Merger: The Internet Reacts
See also: *LACMA Proposes To Take Over MOCA The art world is abuzz with news about the possible merging of art museum titans Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art. Basically, LACMA would help MOCA financially sustain itself while keeping its name. Sounds like a good de ... More >>
Art+Books
November 8, 2012
MOCAtv on YouTube: Museum Tries to Lure Online Art Lovers
See also: *LACMA Proposes To Take Over MOCA The art world is abuzz with news about the possible merging of art museum titans Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art. Basically, LACMA would help MOCA financially sustain itself while keeping its name. Sounds like a good de ... More >>
Art+Books
October 4, 2012
Paul Schimmel's Last Show as MOCA's Chief Curator Features Artists Who Destroy Their Canvases
See also: *LACMA Proposes To Take Over MOCA The art world is abuzz with news about the possible merging of art museum titans Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art. Basically, LACMA would help MOCA financially sustain itself while keeping its name. Sounds like a good de ... More >>
Blogs
September 19, 2012
LA Weekly Web Awards 2012: The Winners!
So the center of the tech universe is still in Northern California. Big deal. Facebook's in freefall; the iPhone 5 is a snooze. Yes, innovation continues to matter, but these days, it's less about the platform and more about the content. On that front, L.A. is king. The top YouTube stars live here. ... More >>
News
August 23, 2012
American Idol Meets the Museum
The Hammer's Mohn Award is a grand experiment in art-world democracy
Blogs
July 27, 2012
MOCA Crisis: What Do Younger Artists and Curators Think?
See also: *Marina Abramovic Speaks Out About the MOCA Gala *Dennis Hopper at MOCA: Double Trouble *Mike D of the Beastie Boys on Curating His New Show at MOCA *Street Art at MOCA The crisis at Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art, which exploded with the ouster of longtime chief curator Paul Sch ... More >>
Blogs
July 20, 2012
Benjamin Millepied, Black Swan's Star Choreographer, Danced Through MOCA's Galleries Last Night
It was a scene, all right, at LA Dance Project's "sneak preview" show, a site-specific dance by Benjamin Millepied in MOCA's galleries Thursday night. The performance (which repeats Aug. 2 and 9) was the first by the Black Swan choreographer since he announced the formation of the Music Center-back ... More >>
Blogs
July 18, 2012
Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Surrealist Peepshow
There are a few great tributes to vintage artists on this week's list. And Chinatown's fourth performance festival, always a wild card and always worth visiting for just that reason, happens this Saturday. 5. Slam poetry with Slanguage "One hundred thousand dollars can be stretched a long way down ... More >>
Blogs
June 22, 2012
James Franco's Art: A Layperson's Guide
See also: *James Franco's MOCA Show Opening: 'There's Just a Lot of Dicks in There' *James Franco & Alex Israel: Why Their Obsession With Celebrity Doesn't Pay Off Who are we to argue celebrity artistic merit -- or any artistic merit anywhere? It is 2012, after all, and it has kinda all been done. ... More >>
Blogs
May 22, 2012
James Franco and Alex Israel: Why Their Obsession With Celebrity Doesn't Pay Off
In the span of a week, MOCA has subjected us to not one but two art installations that are heavily dependent on celebrity for their content. James Franco's "Rebel" opened the weekend before last at the JF Chen showroom, and this past Saturday night Alex Israel had a video screening and performance o ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2012
James Franco's MOCA Show Opening Night: 'There's Just a Lot of Dicks in There'
"There's just a lot of dicks in there. A lot of porno," the painter Ty Williams says, shaking his head. "But I get it, though. I understand the prevalence of penises." We're standing in the alleyway behind JF Chen, a collectible furniture showroom and exhibit space, at the opening party for "Rebel ... More >>
Art+Books
April 5, 2012
Cai Guo-Qiang's Gunpowder Paintings at MOCA
"There's just a lot of dicks in there. A lot of porno," the painter Ty Williams says, shaking his head. "But I get it, though. I understand the prevalence of penises." We're standing in the alleyway behind JF Chen, a collectible furniture showroom and exhibit space, at the opening party for "Rebel ... More >>
Blogs
March 31, 2012
MOCA to Import 'Heavier Rock' From 'Much Farther Away'
In a move emblematic of the fierce competition for museumgoers, MOCA will follow the recent phenomenon of the LACMA Rock by importing a "heavier rock" transported from "much farther away," the museum announced in a statement. For MOCA's installation, dubbed Elevated Math, artist Layne Christensen w ... More >>
Blogs
December 19, 2011
Marina Abramovic's MOCA Gala Controversy: Jeffrey Deitch Confronted and the Performers Speak Out
Getty Images for MOCAA human centerpiece at the "Artist Life Manifesto" directed by Marina Abramovic for the MOCA Gala The guests at MOCA's annual galas are patrons high in the economic hierarchy: politicians, heirs, celebrities, moguls, entrepreneurs who've made bank. Tickets cost an arm an ... More >>
Blogs
November 22, 2011
Samara Golden's Rape of the Mirror Transforms Night Gallery Into Beachside Villa in the 'Sixth Dimension'...With a Jacuzzi
The buzz on Night Gallery -- a unique art space in Lincoln Heights that is only open between 10pm and 2am, Tuesday through Thursday -- is growing steadily. A few months ago, co-proprietors Davida Nemeroff and Mieke Marple made the decision to turn the gallery into a full-on commercial venture, and s ... More >>
Art+Books
August 25, 2011
Night Gallery, Museum of Public Fiction and Other Eastside Experiments
The buzz on Night Gallery -- a unique art space in Lincoln Heights that is only open between 10pm and 2am, Tuesday through Thursday -- is growing steadily. A few months ago, co-proprietors Davida Nemeroff and Mieke Marple made the decision to turn the gallery into a full-on commercial venture, and s ... More >>
Blogs
August 11, 2011
Art in the Streets, MOCA's Groundbreaking Graffiti Art Exhibition, Breaks Attendance Records
Gregory Bojorquez/MOCA"Art in the Streets," the groundbreaking graffiti exhibition at MOCA, drew crowds, police concern and spray-can artists from around the world. Some seemed to think that the arrest of at least one of the exhibitors, Revok, was the authorities' official reaction to the con ... More >>
Blogs
August 10, 2011
MOCA's 'Art in the Streets' Exhibit Racks Up Record-Breaking Attendance
Gregory Bojorquez, courtesy of MOCAInstallation of the "Art in the Streets" exhibit at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, way back when MOCA's "Art in the Streets" exhibit, which ended two days ago, has turned out to be the biggest show in the museum's history, with an attendance of over 200,0 ... More >>
Blogs
August 9, 2011
Jeffrey Deitch Goes Underground? MOCA Director Supports Launch of Art Publications Public Fiction and Night Papers
Carol ChehMaya D'Aoust, the White Witch of L.A., performs at the launch party for Public Fiction and Night Papers. She acted as an oracle and took questions from the audience. I may have to change my mind about Jeffrey Deitch. I wrote some fairly nasty things about him on my blog, following ... More >>
Film+TV
August 4, 2011
Miranda July's New Film The Future and MOCA Exhibit "Eleven Heavy Things"
With her talking cat, T-shirt dance, interactive pink thought balloons and unicorn fans, the filmmaker-artist just wants us all to connect
Blogs
August 2, 2011
MOCA's Jeffrey Deitch Talks 'Art in the Streets,' Widely-Acclaimed Exhibit Closes in a Week
Patrick Range McDonaldLee Quinones: "Debbie Harry" (1981)With the Art in the Streets exhibit closing on August 8 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown, MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch talks with L.A. Weekly about the impact of the widely-acclaimed show on the public and in the art world ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2011
Andy Warhol Exhibition (Yeah, That Soup Can One) Opens At MOCA
Andy Warhol Foundation/MOMAYour Soup Can Is Here Andy Warhol is a celebrity name that needs no soup can MOCA exhibition introduction, particularly if that red-white-and-Campbell's label is front and center (in this case, July 9 through September 7th). And yet, within those visions of 1960s gr ... More >>
Blogs
June 23, 2011
Reactions to 'Art in the Streets' Cancellation at Brooklyn Museum Range From Angry to Victorious
Art in the Streets, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, photos by Gregory Bojorquez, courtesy of MOCA The Brooklyn Museum's announcement that it had canceled its New York stop of MOCA's "Art in the Streets" exhibit for lack of funding brought a flurry of questions: Was it really about funding, o ... More >>
Blogs
June 9, 2011
Banksy Sponsors Free Mondays at MOCA's 'Art in the Streets' Exhibition
Ted SoquiBanksy really feels L.A.We wouldn't blame Banksy if he hated L.A. After all, we took down his art, stole it and covered it up during his stay in our fine city in winter in the weeks leading up to (and after) the Academy Awards (where his documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop was up ... More >>
News
April 21, 2011
Wrangling Art's Cowboys
Ted SoquiBanksy really feels L.A.We wouldn't blame Banksy if he hated L.A. After all, we took down his art, stole it and covered it up during his stay in our fine city in winter in the weeks leading up to (and after) the Academy Awards (where his documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop was up ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2011
"Art in the Streets" Press Preview: Deitch, Gastman, Rose, Fab 5 Freddy and More
Patrick Range McDonaldThe crowd watches the curators speak at the "Art in the Streets" press preview Journalists, artists, museum administrators and other members of the art community -- a few hundred, it seemed -- came out for the press preview of MOCA's "Art in the Streets" exhibit yesterd ... More >>
Blogs
April 7, 2011
Exclusive: MOCA's "Art in the Streets" Artist Roll Call
Art in the Streets, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, photos by Gregory Bojorquez, courtesy of MOCA LA Weekly has the scoop on the much-anticipated artist list for the "Art in the Streets" exhibit at MOCA, which begins April 17. We can't wait. We figured you couldn't either. Look out for our ... More >>
Art+Books
April 7, 2011
Street Art at MOCA
How Jeffrey Deitch convinced an outlaw art movement to show itself for the landmark retrospective “Art in the Streets”
Blogs
January 14, 2011
Jeffrey Deitch of the Museum of Contemporary Art Gets Custom Condom In His Honor
YouTubeBlu's mural at MOCA.A protest group formed to decry the recent whitewashing of a mural at L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) this week handed out condom packages that facetiously tell controversial MOCA chief Jeffrey Deitch to "practice safe art." The website ARTINFO reports that ... More >>
Art+Books
October 14, 2010
(D)EVOLVED INTERIORS
JUSTIN LOWE AND JONAH FREEMAN'S DYSTOPIC REDESIGN
Art+Books
July 22, 2010
Dennis Hopper at MOCA: Double Trouble
JUSTIN LOWE AND JONAH FREEMAN'S DYSTOPIC REDESIGN
Calendar
June 10, 2010
HEY NEW YORK -- BITE US!
JUSTIN LOWE AND JONAH FREEMAN'S DYSTOPIC REDESIGN
Blogs
May 29, 2010
Dennis Hopper Dies, Easy Rider Star/Director Was 74
Dennis Hopper has died at his home in Venice, after a battle with prostate cancer. The actor/director/artist recently received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his long, storied career, which included appearances in such films as Rebel Without a Cause, Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet and ... More >>
Art+Books
January 14, 2010
Deitch’s New Project
MOCA’s big gamble
Blogs
January 8, 2010
MOCA's New Director Rumored To Be Jeffrey Deitch
MOCAThe Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Little Tokyo.By Tom Christie, Senior Features Editor The Museum of Contemporary Art says it will announce its new director Monday morning, but the as yet unconfirmed rumor is that it will be ubiquitous New York gallerist Jeffrey Deitch, proprietor of De ... More >>
Art+Books
January 10, 2008
Those Fabulous Fabricators and Their Finish Fetish
At Carlson & Co., they do it with art
Art+Books
February 10, 2000
Fantasia
Gary Boas and his celebrity connections

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