To the left of the MoCA is the Broad, which has long ass lines to get in. Tickets are hard to come by (you have to obtain them a month in advance and only if the dates aren't blocked off) and rather than wait hours (literally) to get in, opted ahead of time to check out the MoCA...
You can't miss it - there's a huge sculpture of broken airplane parts outside. The sculptor is Nancy Rubins and the rather unwieldy name for this piece is, "Chas' Stainless Steel, Mark Thompson's Airplane Parts, About 1,000 Pounds of Stainless Steel Wire and Gagosian's Beverly Hills Space at MoCA".
It's even more impressive in person and when viewed from beneath, looks quite striking against the tall buildings looming nearby
The ticket office opened at 11 am and we killed time viewing the sculpture and also browsing through the MoCA store. The orange painting on the building is called, "storefront: Paradise Garage"
Although it wasn't free like at the Broad, at least we didn't have to wait, plus, great exhibits here.
Rather than hyperlink each and every piece and/or artist, you can seek the names of the pieces at the MoCA LA link at the very end by clicking on "Collection". Most of the pieces are listed.
"Hell Gate" by Chris Burden
"Green and Magenta Diagonal" - Bridget Riley
"Do I Look Like a Lady?" - Mickalene Thomas (this was a multimedia exhibit featuring music/video/comedy snippets and artwork)
"Intervention" - Edward Krasinski
There was a huge room with hardly anything in it. One wall had twenty panels. This was part of the exhibit by R. H. Quaytman, "Morning, Chapter 30".
Various color field paintings by Mark Rothko
"Map" - Jasper Johns and below, "Telephone" - Andy Warhole, Pop Art selections from the permanent collection:
"Pepsi-Cola Sign" - Claes Oldenberg
The Pop Art room
"Personagges dans la nuit" - Joan Miro
"Number 1, 1949" - Jackson Pollock
"Monitor" - Franz Kline
Sculptures by Alberto Giacometti (no info on the painting in background - I couldn't find it in the museum's online collection)
The hallway was an installation by John Baldessari, a local artist from National City.
They have a varied selection of modern art here. I can't say that I understood everything that we saw but everyone, I'm sure has their own interpretation of the pieces displayed.
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
250 S. Grand Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 626-6222
www.moca.org
We had a great time browsing through the different rooms. We especially liked the Mickalene Thomas multi-media installation, "Do I Look Like a Lady?" which was not only humorous, but also challenging in the way black women are identified and viewed. Another exhibit that was a bit on the graphic side was Thomas Hirschhorn's "Chromatic Fire". It's very intense due to the explicit images of dead bodies on one side of the installation. It was about the ugliness of war, notable the wars in the Middle East. I read online that this was compared to Picasso's "Guernica". TC said she saw a family with small children enter the room but when they saw some of the violent images, ushered their kids out quickly. I think the guard should have warned them because it could be pretty traumatizing for kids to see this.
A few hours were spent here admiring and pondering the art work. Lunch Part one would be right after we left...
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