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How Alternative Art Spaces Changed Los Angeles in the 1970s

Avatar photo by Jordan Karney Chaim January 25, 2022January 27, 2022

Throughout the 1970s and into the ’80s, artists in Los Angeles created organizations and exhibition spaces to develop the resources they lacked.

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Bye, Bye, Bandanas: LA MOCA Visitors Must Wear Medical-grade Masks

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia January 14, 2022January 14, 2022

Those who want to visit the museum muse have a surgical, KN95, N95, or KF94 face mask.

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Paz Errázuriz’s Intimate Photos Document the Lives of Trans Sex Workers in Chile

by Cassie Packard October 17, 2021October 19, 2021

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.

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Travel to Places “Heavy With History” in Deborah Stratman’s Films

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino June 15, 2021June 15, 2021

Stratman captures charged, if overlooked, histories of Illinois, from the Trail of Tears to Chicago’s Black Panther headquarters.

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A Week After Layoffs, LA MOCA Furloughs Most of Its Staff

by Matt Stromberg April 2, 2020

Nearly all of the museum’s full-time employees will be receiving a full or partial furlough beginning on Friday.

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After Coronavirus Shutdown, MOCA Los Angeles Lays Off All Part-Time Employees

by Matt Stromberg March 26, 2020March 27, 2020

The 97 workers represent half of the museum’s total staff of 185.

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Pole Dancing to the US National Anthem

by Renée Reizman February 19, 2020February 20, 2020

Gerard & Kelly’s performance State of unpacks enduring symbols of nationalism, patriotism, and masculinity.

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An Art Movement Unapologetic About Love and Pleasure

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino January 22, 2020January 22, 2020

Artists of the Pattern and Decoration movement expanded our perceptions around what is worthy of being called art.

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In Surprising Development, MOCA LA Voluntarily Recognizes Employee Union

by Matt Stromberg December 6, 2019December 29, 2021

This will make MOCA only the second museum in Los Angeles after the Museum of Tolerance to have a union.

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MOCA Los Angeles Hosts Workshops and Discussions on the Homelessness Crisis

by Matt Stromberg May 29, 2019

This year’s Community Day is focused on youth affected by the homelessness crisis, which finds its most visible manifestation in the temporary shelters just blocks from the museum.

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Helen Molesworth’s Last MOCA Exhibition Is an Act of Love

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino November 14, 2018November 13, 2018

One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art makes a compelling case for why we should be looking at the art of the everyday and why it is remarkable.

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An Artist Who Made Her Personal Life Central to Her Art

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino December 14, 2017December 20, 2017

Anna Maria Maiolino’s first major US retrospective is as much about the progression of a career as about the progression of a life.

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