Art
An Evening of Experimental Films Focused on the Black Experience
Black Radical Imagination aims to expand the boundaries that have historically limited people of color in cinema.
MOCA LA
Art
An Artist Who Made Her Personal Life Central to Her Art
Anna Maria Maiolino's first major US retrospective is as much about the progression of a career as about the progression of a life.
News
Protesters Honor Ana Mendieta at LA Opening of Carl Andre Retrospective
Artists and activists gathered at MOCA Geffen to protest what they consider Mendieta’s erasure from the canon and the disassociation of her death from Andre’s story.
Art
Doug Aitken's Masterful Videos and Boring Sculptures
'Electric Earth' illustrates the difficulty of a sweeping retrospective by smashing excellent video work up against shallow sculpture.
News
Steven Mnuchin, Trump's Treasury Secretary Pick, Resigns from LA Museum Board
The man that President-elect Donald Trump want to be his Treasury secretary just resigned from the MOCA board.
Art
Remembering Artist Noah Davis (1983–2015)
Noah Davis was a badass, but a smart badass.
Interview
William Pope.L on "Acting a Fool" and Alternative Futures
Chicago-based artist William Pope.L works in a variety of mediums, including painting, spoken word, installation, and performance, to challenge ideas of race and social stereotypes.
Books
A Look at the California Publishers in the 2015 LA Art Book Fair
LOS ANGELES — They said it would never work. They said Angelenos aren’t interested in art books. Then, two years ago, they were proven wrong.
Art
Revisiting Steve McQueen's Early Work
LOS ANGELES — In a city whose name is synonymous with the motion picture industry, it's common for the worlds of film and art to collide. It's less common, however, for them to collide in a way that's critical and not simply flirting with the idea of celebrity.
Poetry
Marilyn Chin: Poet, Translator, Provocateur
A few weeks ago, on Centre Street–just north of Canal, the longtime boundary between Chinatown and the rest of Manhattan–I was on a panel, Re-imagining Asian American (and American) Poetry, at the Museum of Chinese in America (MoCA).
Art
Dave Hickey Advises: Stay a Narcissist and Become a Junkie
LOS ANGELES — On Wednesday night, art critic and provocateur Dave Hickey addressed a rapt audience at a pop-up event held by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (LA MoCA) in downtown’s Grand Central Market, part of his book tour for the recently released Pirates and Farmers: Essays on Taste.
Art
Tom, Bob, and the Boys: Queering Midcentury Americana
LOS ANGELES — Bob Mizer and Tom of Finland are to queer pop culture something like Picasso and Braque are to 20th-century abstraction: shocking then but still rich and surprising.