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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

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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PLAN ForYourArt: April 5-11

Bettina Korek | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Barney's Beanery, Redcat, Regen Projects, Geffen Contemporary, Francois Ghebaly, La Art, Ed Kienholz, MOCA Los Angeles, Los Angeles Art Exhibits, La Around Town, LA Art Scene, Ed Kienholz Barter Project, Los Angeles News

The original Barter Show (1969) consisted of watercolor washes which Ed Kienholz bartered for the sums, objects, or experiences painted on them. As a tribute, a group of artists have been commissioned to follow Kienholz's guidelines.

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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

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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PLAN ForYourArt: March 22-28

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: MOCA Los Angeles, Lacma, Los Angeles Art, La Around Town, Elad Lassry, LA Art Scene, Lacma the Clock, Delab, Los Angeles News

Awarded the Golden Lion at last year's Venice Biennale, The Clock is a 24-hour, single-channel montage constructed from thousands of moments of cinema and television history depicting the passage of time.

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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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For The Love of Art and Soaps

Kalup Linzy | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Andy Warhol, Kalup Linzy, Abc, Jeffrey Deitch, The Young and the Restless, MOCA Los Angeles, Nielsen Ratings, Suzanne Geiss, General Hospital, CBS Daytime. Television, Maria Arena Bell, James Franco, Soap Operas, Video, Arts News

In 2010, I met Maria Arena Bell in New York at a going away party hosted by Suzanne Geiss for Jeffrey Deitch, before he was to head west and take up h...

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Gernreich Had Everything Oscar Needs: Creativity, Energy, Fun

Edward Goldman | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: William Claxton, Rudi Gernreich, MOCA Los Angeles, Peggy Moffitt, MOCA LA Exhibits, La Around Town, The-Total-Look-the-Creative-Collaboration-Between-Rudi-Gernreich, Total Look Exhibit, The Total Look MOCA, Arts News

In the '60s and '70s, Rudi Gernreich, Peggy Moffitt, and William Claxton were central figures in the Los Angeles art community and their exuberant collaboration is the subject of MOCA's delightful new exhibition, The Total Look.

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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

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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PLAN ForYourArt: February 9-15

Bettina Korek | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Bakersfield, Human Resources, John Cage, Culver City, MOCA Los Angeles, Mary Weatherford, La Art, La Around Town, Los Angeles News

Under the Big Black Sun features more than 130 artists working in an array of mediums and addresses the period in American art when modernism reached its end and a multiplicity of movements began to take shape.

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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

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

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PHOTOS: LA's Top Street Art Stories Of 2011

Gregory Linton | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Art in the Streets, MOCA Los Angeles, Street Art, La Street Art, Art Show 2011, La Around Town, Slidepollajax, Moca Art in the Streets, LA Art Scene, Los Angeles News

2011 saw the most ambitious graffiti and street art museum exhibition ever with MOCA's "Art in the Streets." The show had record attendance and will be most remembered for giving a new level of legitimacy to art on the streets.

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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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Nero and the Social Contract at Art Basel Miami

Chris Vroom | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Nato Thompson, MOCA Los Angeles, Living as Form, Art Basel Miami Beach, Anne Pasternak, Charlotte Street Foundation, David Hughes, Arts Funding, Philanthropy, Museums, Creative Time, Contemporary Art, X-Initiative, Art Market, Tris Vonna-Mitchell, Art Basel Miami Parties, Elizabeth Dee, Video, Arts News

As music throbbed, bodies writhed and shadows danced over the torch-lit sand outside Dasha's half-million dollar party celebrating Art Basel Miami Beach, I couldn't help but think of Nero, who fiddled while Rome burned.

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West Hollywood: A Cultural Gem

Tamie Adaya | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Slidepollajax, Galvin Benjamin, MOCA Los Angeles, Maxfields, Marc Jacobs, West Hollywood, Alexander McQueen, Travel Blogs, Travel News

Currently WeHo is hosting seven colossal abstract sculptures from world-renowned contemporary artists along the grass median of Santa Monica Blvd, historic Route 66.

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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

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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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

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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Ryan Trecartin Shocker

Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Ryan Trecartin, MOCA Los Angeles, Moca, Video Art, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, Any Ever, Younger Than Jesus, MoMA PS1, I-Be Area, Elizabeth Dee, Arts News

Buzzworthy video artist Ryan Trecartin has left his gallery representation in New York, Elizabeth Dee, according to Gallerist NY. Trecartin and El...

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NY Times Takes On SoCal Art

www.nytimes.com | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Art Platform Los Angeles, MOCA Los Angeles, Graffiti Art, Modern Art, East Coast Art, Getty Museum, Pacific Standard Time Art, Southern California Art, Los Angeles Art, Pacific Standard Time, Art Platform, Los Angeles, Art Rivalry, Southern California, Abstract Art, Hammer Museum, Graffiti, New York Times, Arts News

LOS ANGELES — For the next six months, Southern California will be awash in celebrations of Southern California art: close to 170 separate exhibitio...

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When Appreciating Works of Art, Being There Is Always Best

John Seed | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Virtual Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Getty, MOCA Los Angeles, The Louvre, Damien Hirst, Arts News

Most of my ideas of what contemporary art looks like are based on seeing photos in magazines and jpeg images on the net. Unless you live in a major city, and are devoted to visiting museums and galleries, you likely have the same problem.

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Alexandra Grant On Inspiration & LA's Art Scene

The Huffington Post | Lucy Blodgett | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: The Love House, My La, MOCA Los Angeles, Artist Alexandra Grant, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alex Grant, Alexandra Grant, Kusc, Joni Mitchell, Lacma, Los Angeles News

Who: Artist Alexandra Grant Current Gig: When not painting in her studio, Grant is currently part of the Baker's Dozen III exhibition at the Torran...

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Street Artist Swoon To Build A Musical House In New Orleans

Posted 09.16.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Brooklyn Street Art, Art in the Streets, Swoon, Musical House, Video, MOCA Los Angeles, Moca, Street Art, Moca Art in the Streets, Community Art, Arts News

Brooklyn based street artist Swoon is working with the city of New Orleans and New Orleans Air Lift to give residents a musical house. Swoon, who was ...

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Warhol's 32 Campbell's Soup Cans And The Decline Of Connoisseurship

John Seed | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Andy Warhol, Warhol Exhibits, Andy Warhol Cans, The Huntington Library, MOCA Los Angeles, Andy Warhol Soup Cans, Warhol Soup Cans, Arts News

MOCA Los Angeles will be exhibiting the complete set of Warhol's 32 Campbell's Soup cans through September 7th. The soup cans offer an opportunity for me to explain just what I think the damage of Warhol's work was.

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Shepard Faireyâ„¢: On Street Art And Street Cred

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 09.02.2011

Read More: Risd, MOCA Los Angeles, Ronald Reagan, Brooklyn Street Art, MOCA LA, Russion Constructivism, BrooklynStreetArt.Com, Los Angeles, Street Art, New York, Jaime Rojo, D*Face, The Clash, Word to Mother, Steven P. Harrington, Supply and Demand, Martha Cooper, Rhode Island School of Design, Art in the Streets, Rhode Island, Shepard Fairey, Andre the Giant, Cope2, Tmz, Circle Jerks, Barry McGhee, Invader, Blek Le Rat, The Cult, Lou Reed, Billy Idol, Sid Vicious, The Stooges, Iggy Pop, Public Enemy, Craig R. Stecyk III, The Police, Banksy, Faile, Kraftwerk, Keith Haring, Huey Newton, Arts News

Shepard Fairey has grown up before the eyes of fans, peers and would be competitors. Undaunted by criticism he gets from both sides of his chosen voca...

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Banksy Pays For Free Mondays At MOCA

Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Art in the Streets, MOCA Los Angeles, Moca, Street Art, La Around Town, Moca Art in the Streets, Banksy, Los Angeles Street Art, Los Angeles News

Via LAist: The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) announced today that it will offer free admission every Monday until August 8, courtesy of British st...

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The Real History Behind MOCA's Controversial Street Art Show

ARTINFO | Posted 07.15.2011

Read More: Art, Art in the Streets, MOCA Los Angeles, Artinfo, Graffiti, Graffiti-Art, Los Angeles, New York, Young Lords, Vandalism, Style Wars, Street Art, Gangs, Arts News

Los Angeles MOCA's blockbuster "Art in the Streets" show has churned out one controversy after another, from the uproar over the whitewashing of Blu's...

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