Paul Schimmel

Wilshire Boulevard Temple Launches a Unique Project to Bridge Religion and Art

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 >>

American Idol Meets the Museum

The Hammer's Mohn Award is a grand experiment in art-world democracy

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 >>

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 >>

Eli Broad: A Conversation With the L.A. Billionaire Philanthropist About His Critics and His Legacy

When the Museum of Contemporary Art shocked the art world last month by firing highly respected curator Paul Schimmel after 22 years on the job, Eli Broad, the billionaire philanthropist and MOCA board member, personally gave Schimmel the bad news. Broad, who founded two Fortune 500 companies b ... More >>

MOCA Fires Paul Schimmel, Chief Curator: Is This Part of Eli Broad's Downtown Takeover?

Update: MOCA has completed its transformation to trendster heaven by contracting the studio of L.A. street-art celeb Shepard Fairey to do all major design work. Details below. Local arts blogger Mat Gleason broke the game-changing news last night that Paul Schimmel, chief curator at the Los Angeles ... More >>

Pacific Standard Time: Don't Be Overwhelmed. Just Take it Slow.

If you're like me, you tend to remember the moment when you fall in love. Perhaps it's the moment when the object of your attention tells a story from his or her childhood that perfectly reveals what a goofy, smart, and devil-may-care kind of person they are. Suddenly, you find yourself deeply hooke ... More >>

Is Pacific Standard Time Trying Too Hard?

My first official night of Pacific Standard Time started at a reception at Otis Art Institute's main gallery, where intrepid actress Lily Tomlin, the same Lily who filled Altman's Nashville with wry emotion and played opposite Dolly and Jane in Nine to Five, loudly announced "We're all listening now ... More >>

Cy Twombly and Los Angeles: A Shaky Relationship

Photo credit: Paula Goldman. Courtesy MOCA LA. A view of the 1995 Cy Twombly retrospective at MOCA​ The painter Cy Twombly, who died Tuesday at the age of 83, has always, perhaps unfairly, been associated with high culture headiness. Sure, he came of age in New York alongside pop forerunners ... More >>

Orange you glad I didn't say Biennial?

Cali Bi at OCMA, plus Sean Duffy and John Paul Jones at LAM

Deitch’s New Project

MOCA’s big gamble

Resistance Is Futile

How Takashi Murakami remade the world in his image

8 Angelenos on ArtReview's International Power 100 List

8 Angelenos on ArtReview’s International Power 100 List

At the Museums

Selected highlights of the fall and winter season

Curatorial Ecstasy

MOCA’s Paul Schimmel on his new big show, his old big show (“Helter Skelter”) and everything in between

Portrait of a Dinosaur

Sam Messer, old-fashioned modernist, paints the moments between poses

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30 years of little art in Laguna

MOCA's Two Heads

Richard Koshalek,Outgoing Jeremy Strick, Incoming

English as a Foreign Language

The scribes at MOCA

The Charles Ray Experience

At MOCA and beyond

Reconstructing the Ephemeral

Performance art and the Schimmel effect

The Low Life