Collection:
MOCA’s First Thirty Years
More than 500 art works
by more than 200 artists, 1940-NOW.











Kenneth Price
Red
1962

"Known primarily for ceramic sculpture, Kenneth Price used wood, an unusual material for the artist, to make Red. He has long incorporated orifices into his work to summon associations that are haptic, carnal, biological, and perceptual, employing them to make distinctions between outside and inside, substance and absence, as well as to remind viewers of the traditional and even functional uses of ceramics as vessels. Holes like that found in Red serve as contrasting figures to his sculptural grounds and introduce perceptual conundrums into the viewing experience. By inscribing a tightly ruled yet curvaceous shape on the face of a pristine red box, Price introduced a mysterious element into the straightforward geometric form."







(run to see this show!)

a
new
decade
for
MOCA.
and
LA.

"The Museum of Contemporary Art has confirmed that Jeffrey Deitch will be its new director.

We’ll have more details as they become available, but the appointment marks a step into new and controversial terrain: Deitch becomes the only art dealer/gallery owner to assume leadership of a major U.S. museum as MOCA eschews the usual approach of drawing from the ranks of established museum directors and curators or from the world of academia or other nonprofit ranks.

"I think that the news out of MOCA is, frankly, stunning,” said Selma Holo, director of USC’s Fisher Museum of Art and director of the university’s International Museum Institute. “Deitch has done amazing work as an extremely innovative art dealer. At the same time, we would be remiss not to ask ourselves how he and MOCA are planning to make the transition from the world of commerce and its values to another universe. One understands that these worlds blend, but there are still or should be some lines that are not crossed.”










a new decade for MOCA and LA

MOCA.
(The Geffen returns!)
free this sunday, ill be here...

Doug Wheeler, 1969


(MOCA ♥ YOU Complimentary Museum Admission SUNDAY, NOV 15–FRIDAY, NOV 20 MOCA Grand Avenue and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA MOCA opens its doors and brings its acclaimed collection of postwar art to the community with complimentary admission during the opening week of Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years.)







COLLECTION: MOCA'S FIRST THIRTY YEARS
11.15.09 - 05.03.10
More than 500 art works by more than 200 artists,
1940-NOW.

On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), unveils Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years, the largest comprehensive installation to date of its renowned permanent collection. MOCA's collection, which numbers nearly 6,000 works dating from 1939 to the present day, is internationally regarded as one of the most important collections of postwar art in the world. While works from the collection have been seen in over 100 thematic exhibitions at MOCA since the museum's founding in 1979, the new installation will make a significant portion of the collection accessible to the public on an long-term basis. The layout of Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years will be chronological, providing a comprehensive history of the last 70 years of contemporary art and touching on every significant movement and development during this period. Filling the galleries at both of MOCA's downtown Los Angeles locations, the installation will occupy 24,000 square feet of exhibition space at MOCA Grand Avenue with works dating from 1939 through 1980, and an additional 26,000 square feet of exhibition space at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA with works dating from 1980 to the present. Geographical as well as ideological overlaps and distinctions will be highlighted, and a mix of well established and lesser-known artists will be featured. Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years will include works in various media by Diane Arbus, Chris Burden, Willem de Kooning, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Alberto Giacometti, Nan Goldin, Robert Irwin, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Mike Kelley, Franz Kline, Paul McCarthy, Piet Mondrian, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, and Antoni Tapies, among many other artists.






go to moca for more info....

Tony Conrad
Yellow Movies


I stumbled upon this piece yesterday while at the free day at MOCA Los Angeles yesterday for the currrent show, Recent Acquisitions.

Inspired by the remarkable growth of the museum’s holdings through gifts and purchases over the past decade, Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions surveys recent acquisitions to MOCA’s world-renowned permanent collection, with a particular focus on the last five years. While some of the works on view have been featured in MOCA exhibitions, many others are exhibited for the first time. MOCA’s recent collecting is notable for its breadth and range, and the exhibition assembles significant works by historical, mid-career, and emerging artists working locally, nationally, and internationally, including Eduardo Abaroa, John Altoon, Jennifer Bornstein, Stanley Brouwn, Tony Conrad, Hanne Darboven, Roe Ethridge, VALIE EXPORT, Öyvind Fahlström, Hans Haacke, Rachel Harrison, Robert Huot, Mike Kelley, Jutta Koether, Suzanne Lacy, Lisa Lapinski, Allan McCollum, Matt Mullican, Gary Simmons, Cosima von Bonin, Marnie Weber, Ai Weiwei, William Wegman, and Lawrence Weiner, among many others.