Laughing on the Outside: Selections from the Permanent Collection presents artworks from MOCA’s collection that register the ludicrous, the impossible, and the playful....
On View Through: February 15th, 2015 Andy Warhol: Shadows MOCA presents Andy Warhol: Shadows, the first West Coast presentation of Shadows (1978-79), a monumental painting in 102 parts. Andy Warhol: Shadows is organized by Dia Art Foundation and coordinated by MOCA Senior Curator Bennett Simpson. Conceived as one...
Show Runs Through: October 5th, 2013 - March 24th, 2014 Room To Live Recent Acquisitions and Works From The Collection With an emphasis on recent acquisitions, Room to Live features selected large-scale works or single-artist presentations from MOCA's renowned Permanent Collection. Organized by Curator Bennett Simpson, the exhibition...
KENNETH ANGER ICONS 11.13.11 - 02.27.12 This exhibition showcases the films, archives, and vision of Kenneth Anger (b. 1927, Santa Monica, California; lives and works in Los Angeles), one of the most original filmmakers of American cinema. A defining presence of underground art and culture and a major...
NAKED HOLLYWOOD WEEGEE IN LOS ANGELES 11.13.11 - 02.27.12 In 1947, the tabloid photographer known as Weegee relocated from New York City to Los Angeles. In moving west, he abandoned the grisly crime scenes for which he was best known and trained his camera instead on Hollywood stars,...
ANDY WARHOL CAMPBELL'S SOUP CANS 07.09.11 - 09.19.11 Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is arguably one of the most famous artists in the world and his works—including commercial drawings, paintings, prints, photographs, and films — are among the most recognizable. His Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) is perhaps the...
COMMON OBJECTS POP ART FROM THE COLLECTION 06.30.11 - 10.10.11 In the mid-1950s, artists regularly looked to popular culture as source material for paintings, sculptures, photographs, and printmaking. This "cohesive tendency" was coined pop art and its reach is broad. Included are the early practitioners Andy Warhol, Roy...
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) presents William Leavitt: Theater Objects, the first solo museum exhibition and retrospective of the work of Los Angeles-based artist William Leavitt (b. 1941, Washington, D.C.). Surveying the artist’s multifaceted 40-year career, the exhibition will include sculptural tableaux, paintings, works...
The Artist's Museum showcases works by 146 artists who have helped shape the artistic dialogue in Los Angeles since the founding of MOCA over 30 years ago. Based on MOCA's world-renowned permanent collection, supplemented by key loans from local collectors and artists, this special presentation...