Museum of Contemporary Art

Artist's Solo 'Message To Our Folks' Exhibition Opens Soon

AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 04.16.2012

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CHICAGO -- For more than a decade, contemporary artist Rashid Johnson has worked almost under the radar, turning out work presented at museums and cov...

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Artist and Cultural Planner, Theaster Gates

Elysabeth Alfano | Posted 05.19.2012

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Theaster brings together the disciplines of ceramics, urban planning and religious studies to focus on the concept of transformation and re-imagining possibilities in his artwork of sculptures made from the gutted materials of his rehabbed home.

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Iconic Images of Peggy Moffitt in Rudi Gernreich Designs, Captured by William Claxton (PHOTOS)

Tanja M. Laden | Posted 05.01.2012

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In Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art presents a free exhibition that showcases some of the best images from Peggy Moffitt. But you don't have to live in L.A. to see the pictures -- we've got a few right here.

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MOCA Pays Tribute To Mike Kelley

Posted 02.23.2012

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Mike Kelley, who passed away on February 1, was one of the most influential artists living in Los Angeles. His fearless approach made bad taste, dark ...

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PHOTOS: AIDS, Nukes And The 1980s In New MCA Show

AP | By CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 02.11.2012

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CHICAGO -- A new exhibit about the 1980s is opening at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, featuring interpretations of icons like Ronald Reagan, An...

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WATCH: Abramovic's Artist Manifesto At Outrageous MOCA Gala

Posted 12.20.2011

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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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Museums for Tolerance

Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson | Posted 02.06.2012

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The idea that art can broaden awareness of and exposure to "other" cultures is particularly well expressed in Los Angeles right now.

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Weekend Plans: Beer, Jazz And Pinup Style

Posted 01.04.2012

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Pack away the fake blood and prepare for turned-out umbrellas: blustery November’s upon us. While you step away from your Halloween candy stockpile ...

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WATCH: Baldessari On Street Art

latimes.com | Posted 12.11.2011

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Last week, artist John Baldessari joined Times art critic Christopher Knight for a public talk at the Hammer Museum. At one point, the conversation tu...

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Behind the Scenes at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Video)

Elysabeth Alfano | Posted 12.05.2011

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While we walk the corridors of the museum and throughout the superb exhibit Pandora's Box, Mr. Darling talks about the importance of the museum creating a safe space to ask questions, and ways we can all relate to art.

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Street Art Stories: A MOCA Symposium From Brooklyn Street Art And HuffPost Arts

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 10.22.2011

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HuffPost Arts and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) hosted a presentation and panel discussion given by Brooklyn Street Art founders ...

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Hollywood's Heavyweights Step Up, Protect Arts, Environment, Education

www.hollywoodreporter.com | Posted 09.28.2011

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It isn't every day that a group of people as high-powered as these 10 Hollywood heavyweights show up for one photo shoot. Chalk it up to the surging s...

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PHOTOS: The Signature Colorado Cocktail

| Sheri L. Thompson | Posted 08.28.2011

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Colorado has long been known as a beer mecca. But a cocktail mecca? Not so much. The lack of a signature "Colorado Cocktail" was the impetus be...

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Roger Gastman On Graffiti, His New Book & MOCA's 'Art In The Streets'

WSJ | Dennis Nishi | Posted 07.26.2011

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Writer and former graffiti tagger Roger Gastman has turned his love of the spray arts into a lifelong career. At 19, he sold graffiti supplies, later ...

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Street Art Reprisal

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 06.03.2011

By the time the 25th anniversary edition of Subway Art was published in 2009, generations of graffiti and street artists had been influenced by Martha...

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'Black Swan' Tutus At Center Of New Art Exhibit

AP | SANDY COHEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — While Natalie Portman is celebrating her best actress nomination at the Academy Awards, the tutus she wore in "Black Sw...

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Powerful Jim Nutt Exhibit Opens at Chicago's MCA

Paul Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Slowly and meticulously, Nutt sometimes takes a year to complete a single portrait. And it's portraits of imaginary women that have been Nutt's forte for decades.

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MCA Curator Michael Darling Explains His Work

Paul Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chicago's MCA Chief Curator Michael Darling generous insights into what he looks for in art and artists, and how he looks, are highly informative for artists and appreciators of culture anywhere.

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First Fridays At MCA: Bollywood In Chicago

Chicagoist | Chuck Sudo in Arts & Events on November 5, 2010 10:40 AM | Posted 05.25.2011

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The "First Fridays" events at the Museum of Contemporary Art are usually themed affairs that also double as one of the more popular meet markets in to...

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L.A. Museum's Destruction of Anti-War Art Disrespects Veterans

Robert Greenwald | Posted 05.25.2011

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Creating art sends a message. Destroying art also sends a message. One wonders what message was intended by the destruction of an anti-war-for-profit mural at the MOCA in LA.

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Censorship: Coast to Coast

Peter Clothier | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Republican agenda, it seems to me, is primarily about holding on to power at all costs. If that involves kow-towing to the Catholic church's objection to a museum exhibition, so be it.

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WATCH: ART CENSORSHIP: Los Angeles MOCA Censors Street Artist BLU's Street Mural

Posted 05.25.2011

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This week has seen quite a whirlwind of censorship controversies. The protests at the Smithsonian have dominated the conversation, but yesterday Los ...

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Ask Michael Cohen: Basel Tov!

Michael Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Artsters, hipsters and richsters sipped Dom Pérignon and admired each other's acquisitions from the collections of Lanvin, Gucci and Prada at one of the first Art Basel events. If it sounded more like New Years Eve in St. Barts, in a way it was.

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Art in the Time of Midterms: Museum as Democracy and the MCA's New Show

Monica Westin | Posted 05.25.2011

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The modern or contemporary museum's self-professed job now often includes reconfiguring social relationships, emphasizing performance and participation of the audience.

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Performance Art for Everyone! Or, Why You Don't Have to Care About the Cremaster Cycle

Monica Westin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Performance is not going away because our lives are weird interactive experiences of performing different personae in media we never thought we'd use to express our subjectivity.

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