Art Review
Monuments Collapses American History on Itself
An exhibition in Los Angeles pairing decommissioned public Confederate statues with contemporary art captures America’s shifting political terrain.
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Art Review
How Takako Yamaguchi Subverts the Seascape
The Los Angeles artist practices what she calls “abstraction in reverse,” starting from basic shapes to construct landscapes.
News
MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary Shutters Amid LA Protests
The museum has become the backdrop of ongoing protests against ICE raids in the city. The Broad has also closed its doors.
Features
Nadya Tolokonnikova Builds a Prison of Her Own
The Pussy Riot co-founder undergoes a 10-day durational performance in a recreation of a cell in Police State.
Art
The Techno Transcendence of Party/After-Party
Carl Craig’s immersive installation is a testimony to our need to dance, mourn, and rejoice together.
Art
Techno Visionary Carl Craig Brings the Party to the Museum
The second iteration of Craig’s art installation Party/After-Party will be staged in a former police car warehouse that houses LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art.
Art
Simone Forti Finds the Dancer Within Us
Forti started as a painter so it’s only natural that she would transform other artists and cultural workers into dancers.
Art
Derek Fordjour’s LA MOCA Mural Is an “Invitation” to the Museum
“Sonic Boom,” named after a Historically Black College's famous marching band, “will have particular resonance in communities of color,” the artist said.
Art
How Alternative Art Spaces Changed Los Angeles in the 1970s
Throughout the 1970s and into the ’80s, artists in Los Angeles created organizations and exhibition spaces to develop the resources they lacked.
News
Bye, Bye, Bandanas: LA MOCA Visitors Must Wear Medical-grade Masks
Those who want to visit the museum muse have a surgical, KN95, N95, or KF94 face mask.
News
Paz Errázuriz’s Intimate Photos Document the Lives of Trans Sex Workers in Chile
The unvarnished photographs celebrate the lives, beauty, and resilience of an oppressed group at Chile’s social peripheries in the 1980s, and the series was recently acquired by MOCA in Los Angeles.
Art
Jennifer Packer Portrays Friends Through the Haze of Memory
Packer processes the horror of 2020 into elegiac mood studies that wrestle with exhaustion, fear, and longing.