The Museum of Contemporary Art

The museum’s iconic MOCA logo has been reimagined for a vital cause – to get out the VOTE.

Made in collaboration with the logo’s original creator Tom Geismar, @MOCAStores ’ new VOTE logo collection merges design and democracy on lapel buttons, hats, and t-shirts. Available now online at mocastore.org and at our flagship MOCA Store at MOCA Grand Avenue.

Let your voice be heard. Together, we can make democracy a living work of art. See link in bio for more info. 
 #VOTE #TomGeismar —- Images and music: AC Carter (@klypi__ ) and @mocastores . Apparel worn by Justen Leroy (@leroysoundsystem ) and Alitzah Oros  (@orosconleche_ )

Josh Kline: Climate Change opens to the public today. Both an exhibition and a total work of art, Climate Change is an ambitious, immersive suite of science-fiction installations that imagines a future sculpted by ruinous climate crisis and the ordinary people destined to inhabit it. Begun in 2018 and produced in sections over the last five years, Kline’s eponymous project mobilizes sculpture, moving image work, photography, and ephemeral materials to completely transform the galleries of MOCA Grand Avenue. **Opening Event** Josh Kline in conversation with Johanna Burton Today, June 23, 2024 3:30pm - 5pm MOCA Grand Avenue #Free with RSVP (see link in bio) On the occasion of the opening of Josh Kline: Climate Change, join MOCA for an afternoon with exhibiting artist Josh Kline and the Maurice Marciano Director of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Johanna Burton. — #joshkline #climatechange #mocagrandavenue

Opening this weekend at MOCA Grand Avenue: Reverberations. Highlighting areas of unique strength, Reverberations features key works from MOCA’s Collection, now numbering close to 8,000 works of art spanning the mid-twentieth century to the present. Galleries devoted to abstraction, Pop, and conceptual work from the 1950s and 1960s are joined by recent acquisitions from Nairy Baghramian, Isa Genzken, and Rachel Harrison. Figurative paintings by Michael Armitage, Jennifer Packer, and Henry Taylor join canonical works by Alice Neel, George Segal and others. Also on view are single-artist presentations of work by Robert Rauschenberg and Mark Rothko; Robert Frank’s “The Americans” in its entirety; and Renee Green’s installation Import-Export Funk Office (1993). Reserve your #FREE tickets to visit Reverberations at the link in bio. --- Image: Alice Neel, Robbie Tillotson, 1973. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Gift of Hartley and Richard Neel © The Estate of Alice Neel

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), the Hammer Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and CIMAM invite contemporary art museum professionals to discuss “Sustainable Futures: How, When, For Whom?” at the CIMAM’s 56th Annual Conference in Los Angeles on December 6-8, 2024. @moca @hammer_museum @lacma   The conference, co-hosted by these three major museums, with lead support from the Getty Foundation and additional support from the Perenchio Foundation and the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, will bring together museum directors, curators, artists, architects, and other visionaries to discuss sustainability from a holistic perspective, addressing climate change, collections care, conservation policies, and innovative models of economic sustainability and community building. @gettymuseum @helenfrankenthalerfoundation   ⚡️ CIMAM 2024 will coincide with PST ART: Art & Science Collide, a regional event exploring the intersections between art and science, both past and present. PST is a Getty initiative. @pstinla   👀 Do not miss out on participating in this highly anticipated conference, representing a pivotal gathering of international minds in contemporary art and museum practices. While attending the conference, you’ll have the unique opportunity to immerse yourself in Los Angeles’ vibrant art and cultural scene.   🤗 We look forward to welcoming you to the CIMAM’s 56th Annual Conference in Los Angeles.  👉 The deadline for registration is September 30, but seats are filling in quickly. Secure your spot now! 🔗 in bio to book your seat!   #CIMAM2024 #SustainableFutures

Join us for MOCA Artist Film series screening of Simon Leung’s War After War, 2011, 90 min. Thursday, June 27, 2024, 6pm @moca Grand Ave. 🎟️ FREE with RSVP. In War After War, 2011, artist Simon Leung (Hong Kong, 1964) offers a portrait of the mythical writer, translator, and art world figure Warren Niesłuchowski. The ninety-minute work unravels Niesłuchowski’s life in the first decade of the 21st century as a nomad without a home who depended on others to provide him with a bed for the night, week, month, or longer, while he traveled through North America and Europe as a perpetual guest. The work explores notions of hospitality, mortality, vulnerability, resistance, and living itself as an ethico-aesthetic proposition in the residual space of war. Leung’s video is also a rumination on friendship and the art world. Leung will be present for a post-screening conversation with writer and curator Michael Ned Holte, Associate Dean, School of Art at CalArts. MOCA Artist Film Series is presented by The Edward F. Limato Foundation. 📷 Stills from War After War, 2011. Image courtesy of the artist. #simonleung #moca

Bass-baritone Davóne Tines (@alsoanoperasinger ) brings lead character Jim to life in The Comet / Poppea, an opera staged on a revolving turntable divided into two sides. One side revisits W.E.B Du Bois’ proto-Afro-futurist short story The Comet about Jim, a Black man, and Julia, a White woman in the 1920s who are the only survivors in New York after the city is hit by a comet. Listen as Tines discusses his role as Jim in The Comet. Conceived by director Yuval Sharon (@yuvalsharon_la_detroit ), with music by George Lewis and libretto by Douglas Kearney (@douglas.kearney ), MOCA and The Industry (@industryopera ), the final performances of The Comet / Poppea take place this weekend at WAREHOUSE at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Limited tickets are still available. Checkout the link in bio for more information and to reserve tickets. 🎟️ 
 —- The Comet / Poppea is realized through a landmark partnership among organizations across the United States, produced by Anthony Roth Costanzo and Cath Brittan, The Industry, AMOC* (American Modern Opera Company), Curtis Institute of Music, and Yale Schwarzman Center. The Comet / Poppea is presented at MOCA as part of Wonmi’s WAREHOUSE Programs. @industryopera @moca @runningamoc @curtisinstitute @yale_schwarzmann

Josh Kline’s short film Adaptation (2019–22) imagines a future Manhattan transformed by climate change and follows a team of relief workers at the end of their shift. Described by the artist as a “science fiction of ordinary life,” the film focuses on what tomorrow could be like for the working people who will clean up the inevitable mess resulting from the political and economic decisions of previous generations. Using primarily analogue special effects—scale models, miniatures, and matte shots—and 16mm color film instead of high-definition digital video, Kline creates an expressionistic science fiction that suggests a nostalgia for the present from the perspective of a future transformed by global warming. Although it was filmed in 2019, the work was completed during the pandemic, and its poetic voiceover and melancholy soundtrack, both added in 2020, quietly evoke the lockdown and quarantine in New York. Josh Kline: Climate Change opens to the public this Sunday. **Opening Event** Josh Kline in conversation with Johanna Burton Sunday, June 23, 2024 3:30pm - 5pm MOCA Grand Avenue #Free with RSVP (see link in bio) On the occasion of the opening of Josh Kline: Climate Change, join MOCA for an afternoon with exhibiting artist Josh Kline and the Maurice Marciano Director of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Johanna Burton. --- #joshkline #climatechange #mocagrandavenue Images: Josh Kline, Adaptation (stills) (2019-22). 16mm film (color, sound), 10:45 min. Courtesy of the artist; 47 Canal, New York; and Lisson Gallery, © Josh Kline.

Happy Father’s Day! MOCA Family Projects create learning and art-making opportunities for all. Visit our self-guided artmaking space at MOCA Grand Avenue to experience unique activities that take inspiration from artwork on view and help makers of all ages and abilities experiment with ideas and materials at play. #artforall #artforallages #FathersDay Photos by Sean MacGillivray.

: Just to the side of our revolving stage, a whole other meeting of worlds is happening. Bravo and congratulations to our incredible ensemble of instrumentalists led by Music Director Marc Lowenstein. DOUBLE BASS Doug Balliett PERCUSSION Matt Cook HARPSICHORD Gabriel Crist VIOLA Miranda Cuckson FLUTE Emi Ferguson VIOLIN Keir GoGwilt CELLO Coleman Itzkoff VIOLA DA GAMBA Eric Tinkerhess PIANO richard valitutto THEORBO Jason Koji Yoshida Tickets for this week are still available at MOCA.org Read interviews with the creative team in @nytimes @latimes @hollywoodreporter @bombmag @sfclassicalvoice @attache4culture Links in bio. @moca @runningamoc @arcostanzo @cathbrittan @yale_schwarzman @curtisinstitute @emiferguson @colemanplayscello @dougballiett @eric.tinkerhess @mrmhcook @mirandacmusic @keir_gogwilt @pianotutto 📷 @austin_thomas_richey Coleman Itzkoff, Emi Ferguson, and Doug Balliett (L to R), The Comet / Poppea (2024). Performance documentation from the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Image by Austin Richey, courtesy MOCA and The Industry. Marc Lowenstein, The Comet / Poppea (2024). Performance documentation from the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Image by Austin Richey, courtesy MOCA and The Industry. Jason Koji Yoshida, Gabriel Crist, and Eric Tinkerhess (L to R), The Comet / Poppea (2024). Performance documentation from the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Image by Austin Richey, courtesy MOCA and The Industry. richard valitutto, The Comet / Poppea (2024). Performance documentation from the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Set design by Mimi Lien. Image by Austin Richey, courtesy MOCA and The Industry.

Actors and art lovers #JadaPinkettSmith and #WillSmith were among the first to join us today at MOCA Geffen, as we celebrate the final weekend of Paul Pfeiffer’s Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom. We hope you’ll join us too! Reserve your #FREE admission tickets in advance at the 🔗 link in bio. #openhouse #paulpfeiffer

Join us at MOCA Geffen for the final weekend of our critically-acclaimed exhibitions Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom and MOCA Focus: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio. Saturday-Sunday, June 15-16, 2024 11am–6pm MOCA Geffen 152 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012 RSVP for your #FREE tickets at the link in bio. Advance reservations are required. #openhouse #paulpfeiffer #eddierodolfoaparicio