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We are the only artist-founded museum in LA. We present, collect, preserve, and interpret the art of our time. Reserve your free tickets! #ArtForAll 🎈
Los Angeles, CA
Joined April 2009
Today, we remember Jean-Michel Basquiat: December 20,1960–August 12, 1988. http://t.co/uW0aEIfeLz.
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Kay Rosen: “All of the letters that make up the phrase THE FOREST FOR THE TREES can be used to spell only the words THE FOREST."
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"I’m not interested in relationships of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions—tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on."— *Mark Rothko.
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MOCA is deeply saddened by the passing of Ras G. Ras G was foundational to the production of experimental music in Los Angeles. We are honored to have had hosted him for a program at MOCA Grand last summer, where he shared his artistry with us on our plaza. Rest in peace Ras G.
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres: “All art and all cultural production is political.”
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Kerry James Marshall: Mastry closes July 3; starting today at 5PM until the show’s closure, all MOCA locations will be free!
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The scene at dinner from our 35th Anniversary #MOCAgala presented by @LouisVuitton_US
http://t.co/rglA0cx4eH.
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Arnold Newman: “A good portrait must first be a good photograph.”
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Remembering Jean-Michel Basquiat on what would have been the artist’s 55th birthday.
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Carrie Mae Weems: “I can't count on anybody else but me to deliver on my own promise to myself.”
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Jean-Michel Basquiat’s painting Six Crimee (1982) combines the visual vocabulary of energetic jutting graffiti with dynamic paint gestures reminiscent of 1940s abstract expressionist painting.
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#MOCAMasks: Available Now! Launching today, @mocastores is proud to offer limited-production, artist-designed face masks to benefit the museum in response to the COVID-19 safety and health guidelines.
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Brazilian artist Vik Muniz’s massive photograph Medusa, after Caravaggio (Pictures of Junk) (2009) presents an image of the decapitated head of the mythological Greek monster Medusa. A closer look reveals that this version is constructed from post-industrial rubbish.
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Do Ho Suh: “I don’t really get homesick, but I’ve noticed that I have this longing for this particular space, and I want to recreate that space or bring that space wherever I go.”
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: “The more I paint the more I like everything.”
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#WangechiMutu is a Kenyan-born, New York-based artist who works almost exclusively on paper. Often her works are tied together by meta-narratives, and the theme of female beauty has become a major preoccupation.
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The installation of Barbara Kruger’s work Untitled (Questions) is officially completed! The mural will be on view through November of 2020.
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"It seems to me the best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.”–Toni Morrison, 1984. RIP American novelist, nobel laureate, and light of her generation Toni Morrison.
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Go behind the scenes as we conserve thirteen Mark Rothko paintings: http://t.co/HmDR5212Sp
#MOCAtv
http://t.co/TywoSiJupv.
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Starting in early January, painter Njideka Akunyili Crosby being installing a site-specific outdoor mural to wrap the exterior of MOCA Grand Avenue!
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The general admission line to enter #XuZhen: #InJustaBlinkofanEye currently takes 45 mintues to 1 hour. We will provide another update at 3pm.
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As cerebral minimalism reached its peak in the 1970s, #SusanRothenberg applied dashes of energetic, textural brushstrokes onto massive canvases to arrive at her iconic images of #horses.
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Mike Kelley and @KimletGordon met as art students in the '70s. Her interview on #MOCAtv: http://t.co/mCp8n2mDtT
http://t.co/BKOWg6SqfV.
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#NanGoldin: “I’d always believed that if I photographed anything or anyone enough I would never lose them.”
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Do Ho Suh: “At some point in your life, you have to leave your home. And whenever you go back, it’s just not the same home anymore. I think home is something that you carry along with your life.”
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Alejandro Jodorowsky: "I am very old—I'm already 86—so what interests me? Fame no longer interests me. I'm interested in creating honest art work, and I'm interested in demonstrating that you can do it, that David can fight against the industrial Goliath."
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Cy Twombly: “I've found when you get old you must return to certain things in the beginning, or things you have a sentiment for or something.”
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Kerry James Marshall: “You can’t make somebody else behave well before you can do what you’ve got to do.”
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In 1961 Claes Oldenburg’s The Store opened for business in New York’s Lower East Side neighborhood. Oldenburg used the back half of a rented storefront space to create the objects that he put on sale in the front half, thereby short-circuiting the studio and the art gallery.
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Kerry James Marshall: “There is a place for African mythology in almost all of my work.”
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Today we honor the victims of the attack on Charlie Hebdo. We demand the freedom of expression. #JeSuisCharlie
http://t.co/9vdTFfc8cR.
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Kerry James Marshall: "I want to see more than a few images of 'black folks' every time I go to a museum."
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MOCA is offering free admission to all LAUSD students and one guardian or chaperone while teachers are on strike–visit our website for more information on what’s showing at the museum.
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“The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.” Berenice Abbott was born #OTD in 1898
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Richard Misrach: “I’ve come to believe that beauty can be a very powerful conveyor of difficult ideas. It engages people when they might otherwise look away.”
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Lucian Freud: "The picture in order to move us must never merely remind us of life, but must acquire a life of it's own."
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Njideka Akunyili Crosby: “I like to create disparate spaces that speak to differences in cultural perceptions.” Painter Njideka Akunyili Crosby has completed installing her mural on the face of MOCA Grand Avenue!
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#EtelAdnan on her relationship with Mount Tamalpais in Northern California: "That mountain became my best friend, it really did. It was more than just a beautiful mountain: it entered me, existentially, and filled my life. It became a poem around which I orientated myself."
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Kerry James Marshall: “The global archive. calls into serious question the dubious claims of originality by the Western avant-garde.”
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A.L Steiner: “I want my work to create a wonting desire for what I want. Feminism expanded outward, past academia. Feminism isn’t a historical movement; it’s an ongoing process.”
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres: “I don't want to make art just for people who can read Fredrick Jameson sitting upright on a Mackintosh chair. I want to make art for people who watch the Golden Girls and sit in a big, brown, Lazy-boy chair. They're part of my public too, I hope.”
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Werner Herzog: "Cinema, deep inside — in its very nature — is something awesome. The awe at what we are seeing."
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Doug Aitken: Electric Earth, September 10 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA!
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🤯 Barack and Michelle Obama’s portraits are coming to @LACMA November 2021 in a five-stop tour across the country!.
LACMA will be the third stop for the paintings after they leave D.C.; the portraits are expected to be on view here from November 2021 to January 2022.
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Mark Rothko: "I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions.” http://t.co/W8KtfP5mYL.
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Joan Jonas: “Sometimes, you don’t know what you’re doing. You just begin.”
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This is the last weekend to see Xu Zhen: In Just a Blink of an Eye at MOCA Grand, which has been extended through Labor Day! The wait time for general admission is up to 90 minutes.
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Alberto Giacometti: “I do not work to create beautiful paintings or sculpture. Art is only a means of seeing.” http://t.co/vYFIZ9jnZ8.
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The #SuperBowl but make it abstract! Nicolas de Staël’s 1952 painting “The Football Players” from the MOCA archives 🏈
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Julie Mehretu: “Space is deflated and conflated. I’m still trying to understand it myself.”
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Thanks to all who came out for #BlackLivesMatter last night, + a special thanks to those who shared their stories.
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Thank you @lilmiquela for stopping by and having a fun #MOCAMoment with our #LarryBell installation! 🟥♥️
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Comedian and activist Cheech Marin stopped by MOCA Grand to view Kerry James Marshall: Mastry!
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A MOCA collection piece by Larry Bell called 36-85-1 (1985). Bell, who was a contemporary of Donald Judd and Frank Stella in the 1960s Los Angeles art scene, is well known for his glass cube sculptures.
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John Divola: “Well, in all my work there's this notion of the melancholic.”
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Franz Kline: “The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?”
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Henry Taylor: B Side is now on view at MOCA Grand Avenue through April 30,2023.
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Kerry James Marshall: “I look at [A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self] as a kind of reset, a return to zero.”
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Kerry James Marshall: Mastry and Patrick Staff: Weed Killer close tomorrow; all MOCA locations are free today and tomorrow!
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Brassaï: “I started [photographing] when I was about thirty in Paris. I walked around Paris a lot at night and saw many things. I sought a means of expressing these sights that I saw and a woman loaned me a small camera.”
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Xu Zhen: In Just a Blink of an Eye is on view Saturdays and Sundays at MOCA Grand through September 1. No advance reservations or special tickets will be needed to experience the performance–
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Kerry James Marshall: "It's more important to tell the story of a people by seeing myself as part of a people rather than an individual."
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“Nothing is here to stay, actually—except perhaps paintings and drawings.” Happy birthday, #DavidHockney!
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MOCA is excited to announce that @LILBTHEBASEDGOD is headlining @NTSlive @ MOCA Geffen tomorrow afternoon–RSVP!
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Mark Rothko: “The progression of a painter’s work, as it travels in time from point to point, will be toward clarity: toward the elimination of all obstacles.” Mark Rothko was born #OTD in 1903.🎈
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Go behind the scenes as we conserve our Mark Rothko paintings. Tonight on @KCETArtbound: http://t.co/JEzfVv8rc2
http://t.co/2ckHyESLf7.
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Sunny days in LA have us thinking about this surreal citrus scene from #JimShaw's 1997 painting, Oranges in the Classroom, which he claimed came to him in a dream🍊☀️💭
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#JohnBaldessari: “I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.”
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Sylvia Sleigh is best known for her male nudes, which are a pointed riposte to the Western art canon’s abundance of undressed women.
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“We are all creators, contrary to what education teaches us. And if we create we become happier.” #GaetanoPesce
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Hannah Wilke (1980): “Women must take control of and have pride in the sensuality of their own bodies and create a sexuality i their own terms, without deferring to concepts degenerated by culture.”
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“The world wall is about artists in conversation with each other about a vision of the future without fear, without any arbitration between funders, governments, or authority. “—Judy Baca
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Spring Equinox also means, Norooz, aka Persian New Year! Happy New Year to our friends in Los Angeles and around the world celebrating however they can ♥️.Seen here is Iranian artist Ali Banisadr's painting It's in the Air (2012)
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Cy Twombly: “[Painting] is more like I'm having an experience than making a picture.”
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Tomorrow: #BlackLivesMatter conversation at The Geffen Contemporary. Free and open to the public. @BLMLA
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JOIN US Saturday, January 11 from 12-4pm to celebrate the start of FREE General Admission with a day filled with art, music, food, and community. See you there ❤️
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Robert Gober: “The one thing that an art school never tells you is that they cannot teach you how to be an artist. That should be on their letterhead. That really is up to you to figure out.”
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Robert Irwin: “My interest in art has never been about abstraction; it has always been about experience.”
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Roni Horn: “There is very little irony in my work, but there is a lot of paradox.”
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