๐ซ MOCA 2025 Wrapped!
You had to be there, but also here it is!
Visiting MOCA in 2026? We highly recommend it. Fresh exhibitions, public programs, and ways to look closer together. On view, on stage, and in conversation. See you there!โจ
Join us this Friday, April 3, 2026 for MONUMENTS First Friday with The BERG Collective, with FREE admission from 11amโ8pm, and from 4โ6pm DJ sets from and , food, drinks, photo-booth and more!
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โฌ "Sol LeWitt Upside Down โ K123456, Expanded 1078 Times, Doubled and Mirrored," 2015 is a soaring monochromatic installation by Haegue Yang that references the cube structures of American conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (1928โ2007). Yang replaces LeWit...
Earlier this month, audiences experienced a journey across sound, space, and time with "Star-Crossed Rendezvous"โan immersive collaboration between LA Phil Insight and MOCA that physically spanned the museum galleries and Walt Disney Concert Hall.
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These bronze ingots were once the towering monument to Robert E. Lee that stood for nearly a century in Charlottesville.
In 2021, following years of litigation, the statue was taken down by the city, and ownership transferred to the Jefferson School...
๐ Today is Joe Goode's birthday. ๐
Part of a generation of painters who moved from abstraction toward representations of everyday objects and actions, Goode explored the quiet presence of objects touched, overlooked, and lived with.
See works by Go...
Photographed in 1979 by Yolanda Lรณpez, "Las Santas Locas" captures an all-female lowrider car club in San Francisco's Mission District celebrating a competition win.
Recently acquired by MOCA, the photographs mark the first work by Lรณpez to enter th...
Hello, spring! ๐ผ
In the 1980s, created a series of bright, graphic flower paintings that transform a familiar symbol of spring into bold patterns of color and shape. Inspired by the visual language of 1960s "flower power" graphics and decorative de...
โ๏ธโ๏ธ L.A.! Come cool off at MOCA Grand Avenue.
FREE and on view:
๐ก"Haegue Yang: Star-Crossed Rendezvous"
On view through August 2, 2026
๐ "Michael Asher"
On view through August 2, 2026
๐"Good on Paper: Works from the Gene J. and Betye M. Burton A...
๐ Best gift ever. In 2006 Michael Asher made one of the most significant gifts in MOCA's history: 35 works from his personal collection. Featuring artwork made or exhibited in Los Angeles between the late 1940s to 1970s the gift included pieces by lu...
Film historian Jacqueline Stewart reflects on Stan Douglas's "Birth of a Nation," 2025, on view in MONUMENTS at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.
In January, Stewart and Douglas joined us for a conversation about the work, which reimagines the 1915 f...
was a traveling photographer in North Carolina and Virginia at the turn of the twentieth century, making portraits for pennies in temporary studios. His work was rediscovered in the late 1970s, when glass-plate negatives were found decades after his ...
March is Women's History Month โจ
This week, we're celebrating five artists on view in Good on Paper, an exhibition that positions works on paper as independent, ambitious works of art in their own right. Watch, learn, and celebrate the work of Nancy...
How do artists challenge the histories that monuments preserveโand the absences they reveal?
Join us March 19 for a timely discussion on art, identity, and powerโfeaturing Tavares Strachan, Paul Farber (director of ), Hamza Walker (director of ), an...
โจNow on viewโจ
With venetian blinds as her material, Haegue Yang transforms light, color, and sound into immersive environments. Two major works, made nearly a decade apart, are shown together for the first time, exploring themes of doubling, reflect...
Looking for Friday plans? ๐
Admission is FREE this Friday, 11amโ8pm at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Spend the day with MONUMENTS, then stick around for spinning live from the KCHUNG booth on the plaza from 6โ8 pm.
Interested in delving deeper ...