Moca

"Art isn't easy," Stephen Sondheim once noted in song, and Jeffrey Deitch, director-in-waiting of L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art, is finding that disposing of it in a hurry isn't easy either. MOCA braved considerable controversy when it announced in January that it was hiring a leading contemporary... by latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster | related posts

Here's a bad idea: On March 25, the Museum of Contemporary Art will hold a fundraising event at Blum & Poe, an important art gallery in Culver City. The commercial entanglement makes one blanch, especially given the controversial appointment in January of New York art dealer Jeffrey Deitch as... by latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster | related posts

Beautiful exhibit at MASS MoCA.  The tree moves through the change of season as you look on - a quiet moment in nature!  The museum is located in a series of renovated mill buildings- as you move from space to space and building to building, the exhibits, media and scale of exhibits continue to... by 2modern.blogs.com | related posts

One of the most assertive curatorial decisions in MOCA's 30th-anniversary exhibition is the mixing of painting (and sculpture) with photography. Diane Arbus, Helen Levitt and Robert Frank haven't been shunted off to their own galleries or to their own floor as you see at encyclopedic or modern... by artsjournal.com/man | related posts

-- Ancient discovery : Archaeologists say they have uncovered a 3,000-year-old stone wall in Jerusalem's Old City that may offer evidence of King Solomon's building in the city. ( Bloomberg ) -- Custody battle : An 18th-century painting reported stolen more than 20 years ago has become the object of a legal fight... by latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster | related posts

If you've seen the Lucky Dragons play, you know that the title of their Saturday performance at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA -- "Live Sprawl" -- gets at the heart of a loose but communal energy they've been cultivating for years in Los Angeles' experimental music scene. Sarah Anderson and Luke... by latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog | related posts

In homes receiving cable television, MoCA – one of the most widely-supported home media networking technologies – will be supported by some 15 million next-generation set-top boxes by 2014, according to new forecasts from ABI Research. The next generation of set-top boxes extends beyond HD and... by justamp.blogspot.com | related posts

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, is taking a virtual trip down the Las Vegas Strip via a new  exhibition of historic architectural photographs. "Las Vegas Studio: Images From the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown" will run from March 21 through June 20 at MOCA Pacific... by latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster | related posts

Los Angeles, CA — The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) presents the first international survey of a remarkable body of work that emerged from the dynamic relationship between art and feminism in and around the 1970s.  WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution — on view at The Geffen Contemporary... by artknowledgenews.com | related posts

MOCA's appointment last month of director Jeffrey Deitch was controversial , but another hopeful would have been a total PR disaster. This late entrant into the Downfall meme category (new subtitles put to the 2004 Hitler's last days movie) starts with an explanation of how to get from... by la.curbed.com | related posts