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[3]: Ree Morton, "Too Beautiful (Run from the Infatuated River... too Bewildered to Escape)," 1975. MOCA, Los Angeles. Purchase with funds provided by The Gene J. Burton Acquisitions Endowment. © the Estate of Ree Morton.

[2]: Hannah Wilke, "Untitled," c.1960–63. MOCA, Los Angeles. Purchase with funds provided by The Gene J. Burton Acquisitions Endowment. © Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon, and Andrew Scharlatt / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles. Photo by Jeff McLane.

[1]: Cynthia Hawkins, "Untitled," 1975. MOCA, Los Angeles, Purchase with funds provided by The Gene J. and Betye M. Burton Acquisitions Endowment. © Cynthia Hawkins.

🎨 BIG IDEAS. 📄 ON PAPER.

Opening next week! Drawing takes center stage in "Good on Paper: Works from the Gene J. and Betye M. Burton Acquisitions Endowment."

Opening February 24 at MOCA Grand Avenue.💫

Don't miss it! Reserve your FREE tickets at the 🔗 in bio.

Robert Rauschenberg, “Slow Fall,” 1961, “Inlet,” 1959, “Coca-Cola Plan,” 1958. MOCA Los Angeles, The Panza Collection. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.

“My art is about paying attention—about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.” - Robert Rauschenberg

Join us on Saturday, December 6 at 7pm for “Ode” a solo vocal performance by Odeya Nini. Get tickets: moca.ticketapp.org/portal/produ... 💫

Images by Josh Rose.

🦜 ICYMI: We opened Wonmi’s Warehouse Programs season with Lenio Kaklea’s "The Birds”.

✨ Next up: “ODE” by vocalist and composer Odeya Nini: a solo performance exploring voice, resonance, and the poetics of human experience, followed by a set from MMOONN.

Head to moca.org for info + tickets!

Did you catch us on Tuesday night’s episode of @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social ? Know the answer? Tell us!

Installation views of MONUMENTS at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Photos by Fredrik Nilsen.

Join us this Friday, November 7, for free admission to MONUMENTS from 11am–8pm at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.

Plus, enjoy an evening DJ set by Ashley Younniä, multi-disciplinary music curator and performing artist, on the plaza from 6–8pm. RSVP at MOCA.org/programs ✨

Raymond Pettibon, "No Title (Which is Not...)," 1991. MOCA, Los Angeles. Gift of the artist. © Raymond Pettibon, Courtesy Regen Projects.

⚾️ A true victory in the spirit of Pettibon’s line: skill as an act of beauty. Dodgers lead 2–1, and we’re back at it tonight!

Go Dodgers!💙🌭

This is Roxy Paine’s “Weed Choked Garden”, 1998-2005 on view in “Fictions of Display” at MOCA Grand Avenue through January 4, 2026.

Pae White, "Pantone Pony #284", 1997, Women's size 10 cowhide shoes. MOCA LA Gift of Laurence Rickels.

Evan Holloway, "Shoe Display", 2024, Mixed media sculptures with steel and painted wood. MOCA LA, Purchase with funds provided by Judy Fiskin.

Not all shoes are made for walking, some are made for display. 👠

In "Fictions of Display" on view now at MOCA Grand Avenue, shoes become props, stages become stories, and display becomes performance. Which one would you wear? Tag yourself!

MONUMENTS opens Thursday October 23, 2025, at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and The Brick.

📆 October 23, 2025 — April 12, 2026
📍The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
📍The Brick
🔗 More info at MOCA.org/exhibition/monuments

This is Silke Otto-Knapp’s “Schattentheater (Chalk circles),” 2017.

Richard Billingham, “Untitled (The Flying Cat)”, 1994, Fuji longlife colour photograph on aluminum. MOCA Los Angeles, Gift of Eileen and Michael Cohen.

Yes, that really is a flying cat. 🐈✈️ In Untitled (The Flying Cat), 1994, Richard Billingham captures his dad Ray—cider in hand—dodging the unexpected. Both comic and raw, his photographs turn everyday family life into images full of humor, tenderness, and humanity.

#WorldPhotographyDay

Catherine Wagner, “Calistoga Elementary School, Kindergarten, Calistoga, California,” 1978, and “Moss Landing Elementary School, 7th and 8th Grade Science Classroom, Moss Landing, California,” 1984, Gelatin silver print. MOCA Los Angeles, Gift of Joyce Essex. © Catherine Wagner.

✏️ Artist #CatherineWagner captures the quiet details of classrooms, tracing human activity and intention in her series "American Classroom". For thousands of students across L.A. County, today is the first day of school. Wishing all students and teachers a great start to the school year! 🎒📚

Take a closer look at “MOCA Focus: Takako Yamaguchi” on view at MOCA Grand Avenue through January 4, 2026. 📸: Jamie Pham.

Painting the sea—No coastline required.✨🐚

Takako Yamaguchi’s vivid seascapes draw from a myriad of references: fashion magazines, books, Japanese aesthetics, 20th century design. The result? A richly layered and luminous body of work she calls “abstractions in reverse.”

Olafur Eliasson: OPEN is CLOSING this weekend. Shoutout to our members for kicking it off with us!

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See Orozco’s work on view now in “Diary of Flowers: Artists and their Worlds” through January 4 at MOCA Grand Ave. 

Image Credit:
Gabriel Orozco, "Island within an Island," 1993. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Gift of The MargoLeavin Family Trust.

"You see what you understand. You have to be prepared to see the world. The moment of clicking the camera is almost irrelevant. What is really important is what happens before and after you take the picture." - Gabriel Orozco

Being alive is risky, censoring yourself is worse, says Pussy Riot founder Nadya Tolokonnikova talks about her new art show “Police State,” losing herself in a Russian penal colony, plus the need for activists to speak up despite risks.

At her show “Police State,” running June 5 to 14 at The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Nadya Tolokonnikova is staying in a steel replica of her Russian cell. www.kcrw.com/news/shows/p... @pussyriot.bsky.social @moca-la.bsky.social

Art Imitates Life: Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova’s 10-Day Prison Performance at MOCA LA Exhibition A decade after her imprisonment in Russia, Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova is making a deliberate return to a prison cell at the MOCA LA

Pussy Riot co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova is making a deliberate return to the prison cell – as a performance artist. From June 5 to 14 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. deadline.com/gallery/puss... @moca-la.bsky.social @pussyriot.bsky.social