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🚨 New Exhibition Announcement! "Alexander Apóstol, Regime: Dramatis Personae" will open at MOCA Grand Avenue on September 20, 2026. Alexander Apóstol is an artist known for his photographs, videos, and installations in which he explores the entanglement of art and systems of political power, as well as how they mirror and distort each other. For most of his career, the artist has focused on Latin American geometric abstraction as a case study to interrogate the ideological foundations of moderni

"The Mom Tapes," 1974-1978, by Ilene Segalove. Image credit: Ilene Segalove, "The Mom Tapes," 1974–1978. Single-channel digital video (black-and-white and color, sound). The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Purchase with funds provided by the Acquisition and Collection Committee.

Happy Flyday. There are many contemporary artists who use assistants to create works of art, but it's doubtful that any employ as many as John Knuth. Over 250,000 common house flies contributed to the completion of this body of paintings, living out their life cycle inside canvas-walled enclosures at the artist's Los Angeles studio. Knuth feeds the flies a mixture of sugar, water, and colored pigments that is drank and regurgitated millions of times over the course of six weeks. The resulting pa

Happy Birthday to MOCA collection artist James Turrell.

Artist Hank Willis Thomas talks about his work "A Suspension of Hostilities" (2019), on view in MONUMENTS. MONUMENTS closes tomorrow, Sunday, May 3, 2026. Don't miss the opportunity to see the most-talked about exhibition this year. Admission is free all weekend. On view at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and The Brick. Learn more at moca.org @thebrick_la @hankwillisthomas

"Are we ready to have a certain kind of conversation as a nation?" – Hamza Walker. Walker, director of The Brick is the co-curator and mastermind behind the critically-acclaimed exhibition MONUMENTS. The exhibition closes this Sunday, May 3, 2026. Admission is FREE at both The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and The Brick today through Sunday. Visit moca.org for more information.

Today MOCA remembers George Herms (1935–2026), a native Californian, influential figure of the Beat Generation, and artist in MOCA’s collection, best known for his assemblage work. Herms began his long career in the 1940s by making valentines out of cut paper and glue; throughout his life, musicality, spirituality, and poetic expression remained integral to his work. "California Landscaping," (1978) was installed in "Mapping An Art World: Los Angeles in the 1970s-80s" at MOCA Grand Avenue in 202

Mark Rothko’s celebrated paintings use variations of color, tone, and transparency to create atmospheric spaces of ambiguous depth in which horizontally stacked bands float upon colored grounds. Disillusioned by politics generally and the catastrophes of the Second World War particularly—genocide, atomic warfare, and fascism—Rothko, like many fellow Abstract Expressionists, tried to understand modern life in terms of the timeless human condition. On view in the exhibition "The Expanding Field: M

Visitor reflections from MONUMENTS. Closing two weeks today on Sunday, May 3, 2006. Don't miss your chance to see this critically-acclaimed exhibition. On view at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and The Brick. Learn more at moca.org

MONUMENTS at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and The Brick. On view until May 3, 2026. Learn more at moca.org

Boskovich’s electric fan is now on view at MOCA 🤍 #JohnBoskovich #conceptualartist #queerartist #museumtiktok #learnontiktok