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Selections from the Permanent Collection on view at MOCA Grand Avenue, ongoing programs for all ages, and innovative digital media projects such as the recently launched MOCAtv, the ﬁrst and only contemporary art channel that is part of YouTube's Original Channels. These offerings dramatically extend the museum's footprint by engaging audiences around the world in new arenas of exchange about contemporary visual culture. Changing selections from the collection are always on view at MOCA Grand Avenue. Though its collection traces art from the postwar period to the present, its monographic and thematic exhibitions have shaped art and culture as it's happening. The museum has presented nearly 400 groundbreaking and critically acclaimed exhibitions, from timely retrospective shows on international artists such as Fischli & Weiss (1987), Cindy Sherman (1997), and Andy Warhol (2002), and locally based artists of international repute such as Edward Ruscha (1990), Barbara Kruger (1999), and Allan Kaprow (2008), to some of the most signiﬁcant themed exhibitions of recent years including Helter Skelter: LA Art in the 1990s (1992) and Art in the Streets (2011). MOCA has not simply been ahead of the curve but has deﬁned it - and continues to do so. The museum has also engaged the visual culture that deﬁnes the city through shows that connect art with ﬁlm such as Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film Since 1945 (1996), and Kenneth Anger: Icons (2011); art with fashion, including Rodarte (2011) and Rudi Gernreich (2012); as well as architecture and design shows with important examinations of the works of Gehry (1988) and Rudolph Schindler (2001). It is through its innovative programs that MOCA builds its audience and remains a vital institution in Los Angeles, for both residents and tourists. And it is through the incredible support of this audience that MOCA continues to advocate and educate, to challenge and engage, and to push art forward one artist and one visitor at a time. To join MOCA today, please visit moca.org. From top: Urs Fischer at MOCA Grand Avenue and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, through August 19, 2013; Six Crimee by Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1982, acrylic and oil paintstick on masonite, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Scott D.F. Spiegel Collection 250 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA 213.626.6222 moca.org Exit the Metro Red or Purple Line at Civic Center Station. See map on page 101; more information at metro.net. discoverLosAngeles.com 33 http://www.moca.org http://www.moca.org http://www.metro.net http://www.metro.net http://www.moca.org http://www.discoverLosAngeles.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of US Airways - Los Angeles Culture Guide

US Airways - Los Angeles Culture Guide
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Culture Thrives in the City of Angels
Art, Dance, History, Music, Theater: Downtown LA Has it All
Bask in Surrounding Glory
For More Inspiration, Go West
Discover the Next Stage
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US Airways - Los Angeles Culture Guide