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MOCA Los Angeles Hosts Workshops and Discussions on the Homelessness Crisis

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.

In Brief

MOCA Los Angeles to Implement a Free Admission Policy

The shift will be funded with a $10 million donation from MOCA Board of Trustees President Carolyn Clark Powers, who says: "Charging admission is counterintuitive to art’s ability and purpose to connect, inspire, and heal people.”

Art

A Goodbye to LA MOCA at the Pacific Design Center

MOCA PDC, which closed this month, deserves parting attention, largely because its evolutions, successes, and sometimes confounding programming often reflected city-wide cultural identity crises.

Comics

How a Film Buff Warmed Up to Manny Farber’s Paintings

The way Farber thought about movies shaped the way I watched movies, which meant he shaped my life, because all I cared about was watching movies.

Art

A Project Meticulously Lays Out the Realities of Modern-Day Slavery

With a scattered display of everyday objects and cryptic legal documents, Cameron Rowland illustrates a long history of systematic racism.

Art

Barry Jenkins and Kahlil Joseph Reimagine Roy DeCarava’s Admiring Vision of Harlem

Director Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk and video artist Kahlil Joseph's "Fly Paper" transmute the aesthetics and storytelling of photographer Roy DeCarava's 1950s portraits of Harlem.

Art

A Student of Manny Farber Organizes a Film Series in His Honor

Blame the Audience presents cinematic works that resonate with Farber's teachings.

Art

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

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.

Art

Photography in Search of the Real

Real Worlds invites viewers to consider photography not just as documentation of myriad moments but as a means to more deeply understand lives and interpersonal relationships in Western cities.

Art

Bringing the Signs and Textures of South Central LA into the Museum

Lauren Halsey's site-specific installation transforms the typically austere space of the museum into a utopian dream made of the people, symbols, and imagery of South Central Los Angeles.

News

Los Angeles Art Community Reacts to Firing of MOCA Chief Curator Helen Molesworth

The announcement of Molesworth's departure shocked and dismayed many in the Los Angeles art world. But some MOCA insiders have also said she contributed to a toxic work environment.

Art

Museum Puts Jackson Pollock Conservation Process on Public Display

The conservator of Pollock's "Number 1, 1949" shares the challenges he will face when conserving the artwork in the Museum of Contemporary Art's galleries.