Diana Thater
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Los Angeles–based artist Diana Thater, born OTD, has been a force in video and installation art since the early 1990s. In "Delphine," (1999) which takes as its primary subject wild dolphins interacting with humans, the artist worked for the very first time ...
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"The Mom Tapes," 1974-1978, by Ilene Segalove.
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"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 Acquis...
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Happy Flyday.
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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 insi...
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Contemporary Art Start at MOCA
Video | 4 months ago
Learn more about MOCA's award-winning school partnership program, Contemporary Art Start (CAS). Through CAS, MOCA invests in teachers to help students access the transformative power of art. Support arts education at MOCA with a fully tax-deductible donatio...
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Happy Birthday, James Turrell.
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Happy Birthday to MOCA collection artist James Turrell.
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Hank Willis Thomas on MONUMENTS
Short | 5 months ago
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 we...
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Hamza Walker talking about MONUMENTS
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"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...
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George Herms.
Review | 5 months ago
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 pap...
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Mark Rotho "The Expanded Field"
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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 th...
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MONUMENTS Visitor Reflections
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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
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Odeya Nini, ODEFeaturing MMOONN (Odeya Nini, Nicolas Snyder, and Max Jaffe).
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Performed at WAREHOUSE at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA on Saturday, December 5, 2025. Odeya Nini works to reclaim the voice as an instrument that can exist between the physical self and that which is beyond our senses. Her work extends the scope and expr...
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MONUMENTS at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and The Brick.
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On view until May 3, 2026. For more information, please visit moca.org
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