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PLAN ForYourArt: May 24-30

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Blum and Poe, Lacma, Eleanor Antin, Moca, LA Art Exhibitions, Los Angeles Art, La Art, La Around Town, LA Art Scene, Los Angeles News
Bettina Korek

Sunday is opening day of a new exhibition that will focus on the emergence of land art in the 1960s and highlight the early years of artistic experimentations in this realm.

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Bizarre and Delightful

Edward Goldman | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Photography, Cy Twombly, Media Arts, Ucla, Charles Ray, Mfa, Sculpture, James Franco, Moca, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles Art Exhibitions, La Art Galleries, Los Angeles Art Galleries, Arts News
Edward Goldman

Summertime used to mean that the galleries and museums would take it easy, presenting lackluster group shows and few, if any, challenging solo exhibitions. Not any more. Economy be damned, the Los Angeles art scene is now sizzling year round.

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James Franco's New MOCA Exhibit Recreates Chateau Marmont

The Daily Truffle | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Harmony Korine, Jeffrey Deitch, Paul McCarthy, MOCA Los Angeles, Aaron Young, Moca, James Franco, Los Angeles News
The Daily Truffle

James Franco wanted to make a movie about the making of Rebel without a Cause but wound up with a collaborative MOCA exhibit instead.

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Do Corporate Sponsors at MOCA Have Censorship Authority?

Mat Gleason | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Contemporary Art, Censorship, Moca, Transmission LA, Mercedes, Arts News
Mat Gleason

When artist Chris Silva got an invite to participate in an art show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), he wanted to make sure he b...

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Beauty and the Beast

Edward Goldman | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Blum and Poe, Contemporary Art, Cai Guo-Qiang, Moca, Edward Goldman, La Art, LA MoCA, Museum of Contemporary Art LA, Cai Guo-Qiang LA, La Around Town, MOCA LA, Best of La, Video, Arts News
Edward Goldman

Mystery Circle is a dangerous, explosive work of art by the famous contemporary Chinese artists, Cai Guo-Qiang.

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Learn Why This Artist Draws With Gunpowder

Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: art.sy, Video, Gunpowder, Moca, Geffen Contemporary, Sky Ladder, Chinese Art, Marina Cashdan, Cai Guo-Qiang, Art With Gunpowder, Explosions, Arts News

Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang is known for his aesthetically exquisite choreographed explosions. Yet for an artist so concerned with destruction, Cai's...

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Plunging into Amsterdam's Art World

Edward Goldman | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Stedelijk Museum, Rijksmuseum, Art, Cai Guo-Qiang, Amsterdam, La Art, MOCA Los Angeles, Moca, La Around Town, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporay Art, Museumo of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Arts News
Edward Goldman

Going on a short press trip to Europe is never a walk in the park. It is more like a headfirst plunge into the local art scene: Exploring, tasting, inhaling it 24/7. And that's exactly how it was during my recent visit to Amsterdam.

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Cai Guo-Qiang's Explosive New Show

The Huffington Post | Andrew Reilly | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Geffen Moca, Installation Art, Art, Video, MOCA Los Angeles, Moca, Cai Guo-Qiang: Sky Ladder, Sculpture, Sky Ladder, Contemporary Art, Cai Guo-Qiang, LA MoCA, Slidepollajax, Arts News

Cai Guo-Qiang is known for his carefully calculated explosive performances that amaze and astound. In other words, the Chinese artist creates his work...

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Was This A MAJOR Fashion Faux Pas?

Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Cameron Silver Decades, Moca Conflict of Interest, Moca, Moca Pdc, Peggy Moffitt, Poll, Cameron Silver Moca, Rudi Gernreich, Cameron Silver Conflict of Interest, Decades II, Moca at Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles News

As we previously reported, the MOCA Pacific Design Center is currently hosting “The Total Look: The Creative Collaboration Between Rudi Gernreich, P...

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PLAN ForYourArt: March 1-7

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Norton Simon Museum, Moca, PLAN ForYourArt, Lacma, Pmcs, LA Art Exhibitions, Los Angeles Art, La Around Town, LA Art Scene, Los Angeles News
Bettina Korek

For their last installation, CamLab will use money as material in a hands-on group exchange. Longtime "economicalists," members of CamLab will facilitate the creation of a pop-up micro-economy. Visitors can participate or observe.

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The Docent

Brian D. Cohen | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Art Appreciation, Museums, Alfred Korzybski, MOCA Los Angeles, Moca, Geffen Contemporary, Visual Art, Arts News
Brian D. Cohen

In my experience docents are painfully well intentioned, more or less informed, and extraordinarily tenacious. Yet I confess, I avoid them and have always avoided them.

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My Visit to the Museum of Chinese in America

Michael Kaiser | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Maya Lin, Arts Management, Arts, Jessica Chao, Moca, Museum of Chinese in America, Chinatown, Arts News
Michael Kaiser

The Museum of Chinese in America provides a model and inspiration for all other organizations of color. While building an individual donor effort is not easy and takes time and discipline, it can be accomplished, even by a modestly-sized, culturally-specific museum.

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MOCA To Launch Original Video Channel

The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: Jeffrey Deitch, Video, Art, Reality TV, Moca Tv, Moca, Museums, MOCA LA, Jeffrey Deitch Moca, Eli Broad, Arts News

Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art is hoping to tap into a popular interest in art with a new YouTube channel it's launching in July. Accordi...

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Interview With Herb Tam of Museum of Chinese in America

Julie Chae | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Lee Mingwei, Herb Tam, A Jamaica Queens Thing, Moca, Museum of Chinese in America, Arts News
Julie Chae

Herb Tam is the curator and director of exhibitions at the Museum of Chinese in America and a part of the new wave of younger curators with dynamic ideas about the role of museums in engaging with our communities.

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PLAN ForYourArt: January 12-18

Bettina Korek | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Chris Burden, Jeanine Oleson, Lacma, MOCA Los Angeles, Moca, Michael Kohn Gallery, Gagosian Gallery, La Around Town, Los Angeles News
Bettina Korek

Metropolis II is a complex kinetic sculpture by Chris Burden, modeled after a fast-paced, frenetic modern city.

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PLAN ForYourArt: January 5-11

Bettina Korek | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Bergamot Station, Blum and Poe, Foryourart, China Art Objects, Regen Projects, Moca, Santa Monica, PLAN ForYourArt, Moca Engagement Party, Culver City, Glenn Kaino, Miracle Mile, La Around Town, Los Angeles News
Bettina Korek

For the first of three MOCA events, CamLab will transform two adjoining spaces in the museum, encouraging visitors to oscillate between immersion and agency as they occupy the various perspectives proposed by the installation.

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Documentaries Old and New; Sascha Rice, Sundance and Nanook

Hellin Kay | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Bill Cunningham, Political Documentaries, Reality TV, Gatling Pictures, Sundance Film Festival, Tabloid, New Documentaries, Palm Springs Film Festival, Ice T, Pat Brown, Bard College, Nanook of the North, Cure for the Pain, Sascha Rice, Adolfas Mekas, Robert Flaherty, Nostalgia, California History, Mad Men, Politics, John Pruitt, Film History, Page One, Restrepo, Jerry Brown, Mark Sandman, Documentary Film, Moca, Arts News
Hellin Kay

Documentary film is one of the most undervalued of all art forms. But thanks I guess partly to "reality TV" people seem to have rediscovered it in the mainstream.

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PHOTOS: The Year In Art

Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Art Basel, MOCA Los Angeles, Moca, Barbara, Art Basel Miami, Occupy Movement, Cy Twombly, Art, Video, Marina Abramovic, Occupy Wall Street, Contemporary Art, Slidepollajax, James Franco, Lucian Freud, Shepard Fairey, Ai Wei Wei, Arts News

2011 was the year of the rebel and the art world was not immune from the larger cultural conflicts. The sentiment of civil unrest swept the world and ...

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Olsen Twins Make Forbes' List Of 30 Artists Under 30

Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Jeffrey Deitch, Alexander Wang, Chuck Close, Forbes 30 Under 30, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, Moca, The Row, Street Art, Forbes Art and Design, Olsen Twins, Jr, Nicolas Fayad, Simon Doonan, Arts News

It is hard enough for a twenty-something to be able to take care of oneself, let alone establish oneself in the art world. But here are 30 artists and...

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WATCH: Abramovic's Artist Manifesto At Outrageous MOCA Gala

Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Debbie Harry, Jeffrey Deitch, Albert Brooks, Moca, Marina Abramovic, Will Ferrel, Kirsten Dunst, Performance Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Abramovic, Blondie, MOCA Gala 2011, Video, Arts News

This year's MOCA Gala 2011 was a night to remember. There were living human heads propped on serving platters, eyeing guests as they ate. There were n...

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PHOTOS: A Monk Inspired The Newest Rodarte Gowns

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Dresses Inspired by Monk, Laura Mulleavy, Mulleavy Sisters, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Video, Moca, Kate Mulleavy, Dresses at LACMA, Fashion Art, Lacma, Rodarte, LACMA Gowns, Renaissance Dresses, Los Angeles News

There are certain features in fashion that women (and men) throughout centuries have adored: sik, sequins, gold and feathers, to name a few. It's no s...

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PLAN ForYourArt: December 1-7

Bettina Korek | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: PLAN ForYourArt, LA Art Exhibitions, La Art, La Around Town, LA Art Scene, MOCA Los Angeles, Moca, Los Angeles News
Bettina Korek

Liz Glynn's final work for "Engagement Party" will take the form of a seated dinner party. The dinner will incorporate imagery from 19th century anatomical theater to explore notions of desire and embodiment.

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Through a Lens, Starkly: Weegee's Naked Hollywood

Tom Teicholz | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Gene Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Naked Hollywood, Jeffrey Deitch, Charlie Chaplin, Naked City, Pacific Standard Time, Weegee, Hollywood, Moca, Arts News
Tom Teicholz

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Pacific Standard Time At LACMA: The Untold Story

Harris Silver | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Suburbs, Military Industrial Complex, Moca, Nuclear Missiles, Mulholland Drive, Malibu, Peterson Automotive Museum, Lacma, Culture, Nuclear War, Infrastructure, Pst, Sci-Arc, Case Study Houses, Highways, Art and Architecture Magazine, The Case Study House Program, Bel Air, 10, California Design 1930-1965: ?Living in a Modern Way?, Charles and Ray Eames, KB Homes, La, Museum Exhibit, Harris Silver, Los Angeles, Eames House, Art, Levittown, Wwii, John Entenza, Freeways, Missile Site, President Eisenhower, Getty, 405, Pacfic Standard TIme, Culture News
Harris Silver

Pacific Standard Time is a sprawling cultural initiative with 68 major museum shows and 125 gallery exhibitions including California Design 1930-1965: 'Living in a Modern Way.'

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Art in the Ownership Society

Sam Chaltain | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Brett Cook, Art, Occupy Wall Street Protest, MOCA Los Angeles, Moca, Marina Abramovic, Occupy Wall Street, New York Times, Modern Art, #Occupywallstreet, Los Angeles, Eli Broad, Maria Abramovic, Maria Abramovic Art, Arts News
Sam Chaltain

The core questions animating the MOCA event weren't representative of any shared vision of the world; they were reflective of an ersatz veneration of the art of the spectacle itself.

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