Artist Judy Fiskin discusses her work as well as the work of other artists included in Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years whom have influenced her photo and video-based practice throughout her career.

Recorded Sunday February 28 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.

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MOCA Associate Curator Bennett Simpson leads an in-depth discussion of Reneé Green's Import/Export Funk Office; currently on view at Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years.

Recorded Thursday, February 18 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.

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Two recent Art Talks presented in conjuntion with Folly—The View from Nowhere.

On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Feathered Edge: A New Installation by Ball-Nogues Studio, Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues discuss their installation and the process behind it.

Feathered Edge: A New Installation by Ball-Nogues Studio is an ambitious site-specific project by the innovative Los Angeles–based design and fabrication firm led by Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues. In this exhibition, curated by Brooke Hodge and coordinated by MOCA Curator Alma Ruiz, over 21 miles of colored strings configured in catenary curves span the gallery space to form a dynamic environment.

Filmed in the weeks leading up to the exhibition, this video documents the fabrication and installation of Feathered Edge, on view July 26–November 15, 2009 at MOCA Pacific Design Center.

On the occasion of the opening of "Dan Graham: Beyond", artist Paul McCarthy spoke on the work of Dan Graham. Recorded February 13, 2009 at MOCA Grand Avenue.

The work of Dan Graham has been central to the development of art since the 1960s—from the rise of minimalism, conceptualism, and video and performance art to explorations of architecture and the culture of rock and roll. In this video, the artist discusses New York and his experiences in working with artists from Los Angeles.

A special performance by Mirror/Dash, with Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, at the opening of Dan Graham: Beyond.

Recorded February 14, 2009 at MOCA Grand Avenue.

On the occasion of the opening of Dan Graham: Beyond, MOCA hosted a special conversation featuring Dan Graham in conversation with musicians Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.

Recorded February 15, 2009 at MOCA Grand Avenue.

Exhibition curators Lisa Mark and Lynda Bunting discuss the exhibition To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book

Frances Morris, exhibition curator and head of collections at Tate Modern, discusses Louise Bourgeois.

Recorded October 26, 2008, at MOCA Grand Avenue.

In conjunction with the Villa Aurora, MOCA presented a special evening with Susanne Kippenberger, Berlin-based writer and author of Kippenberger. Der Künstler und seine Familien, an acclaimed 2007 biography on the life of her brother, Martin Kippenberger.

Recorded October 23, 2008, at MOCA Grand Avenue.

On the occasion of the opening of Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective, Diedrich Diederichsen, curator, professor of Theory, Practice, and Transfer of Contemporary Art at the Vienna Art Academy, and author of a forthcoming German monograph on Kippenberger, discusses the artist’s work.

Recorded September 21, 2008, at MOCA Grand Avenue.

Four celebrated Los Angeles poets have written new poems in response to specific works in the exhibition Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection. Listen to the poems by Elena Karina Byrne, David St. John, Paul Vangelisti, and Gail Wronsky, and view the works that inspired them below.

Exhibition curator Connie Butler, MOCA Ahmanson curatorial fellow and The Robert Lehman Foundation chief curator of drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, leads a walkthrough of Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave. Recorded Sunday August 3, 2008 at MOCA Grand Avenue.

Listen to the artist discuss select works from her exhibition Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave.

Artist Morgan Fisher leads a special closing-weekend discussion of Lawrence Weiner: AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE.

On Sunday May 18, MOCA Curator Philipp Kaiser moderated a discussion between Skylar Haskard, Allen Ruppersberg, Barbara T. Smith, and Paul McCarthy exploring the artist’s reinventions of Allan Kaprow’s Environments and Happenings, created for Allan Kaprow–Art as Life.

On the occasion of Paul McCarthy’s midcareer retrospective in 2000, MOCA hosted a conversation between McCarthy and Allan Kaprow. Kaprow was a teacher and mentor to McCarthy, and the two were in a dialogue with one another beginning in the late 1960s.

Paul McCarthy has served as an advisor to the exhibition Allan Kaprow–Art as Life, currently on view at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

Dick Hebdige, professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and exhibition catalogue contributor, discusses ©MURAKAMI.

Recorded December 2nd, 2007 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.

Artist and musician Mason Williams discusses his work in conjunction with the exhibition Artists’ Gifts: Michael Asher. Recorded December 9, 2007 at MOCA Grand Avenue.