http://moca.org News events from moca.org en-us Thu, 02 Sep 10 10:49:45 -0700 Thu, 02 Sep 10 10:49:45 -0700 moca.org events@moca.org webmaster@moca.org 60 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=9&day=5#5 Spend some time in a spotlight tour of Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective to explore some of the artist's painting techniques and processes. Then, join guest artist Michael Pisaro for painting with sounds, a hands-on workshop inspired by the exhibition. INFO 213/621-1765 or fflores@moca.org FREE; no reservations required Sun, 05 Sep 10 13:00:00 -0700 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=9&day=5#5 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=9&day=9#9 The Downtown Art Walk is a FREE, self-guided tour of the many galleries and museums in downtown Los Angeles. As a participating venue, MOCA provides the perfect stop on this downtown art excursion with FREE museum admission from 5-8pm, courtesy of Wells Fargo. Take advantage of the FREE Art Walk DASH shuttle from 7-10pm. The closest shuttle stop is approximately four blocks from MOCA Grand Avenue on Spring and 3rd Streets; the last shuttle leaves at 9:45pm. INFO downtownartwalk.com FREE Thu, 09 Sep 10 15:00:00 -0700 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=9&day=9#9 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=9&day=12#12 In conjunction with Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, Kim Theriault, author of the critical study Rethinking Arshile Gorky and associate professor of art history, theory, and criticism at Dominican University, will discuss Arshile Gorky, the Armenian Genocide, and crisis of identity in the artist and his work. Theriault is one of the first scholars to connect Gorky's traumatic past with his abstract work. INFO 213/621-1745 or education@moca.org FREE; no reservations required Sun, 12 Sep 10 15:00:00 -0700 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=9&day=12#12 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=9&day=23#23 Moderated by MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch, this discussion panel will include Dina Nasser-Khadivi, an expert on the development of the market; Mohammed Afkhami, a key collector based in New York, Dubai, and London; Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller, whose New York gallery specializes in artists from the Middle East; and Shirley Elghanian, founder of Magic of Persia, a non-profit that has developed a significant Contemporary Iranian Art Prize for young emerging artists. INFO 213/621-1745 FREE; no reservations required Thu, 23 Sep 10 18:30:00 -0700 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=9&day=23#23 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=9&day=26#26 Join MOCA for a conversation with artist Ryan Trecartin and several of his artistic collaborators. INFO 213/621-1745 or education@moca.org Sun, 26 Sep 10 15:00:00 -0700 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=9&day=26#26 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=9&day=30#30 USC Professor of Philosophy Edwin McCann will discuss the trial as a specimen of social and cultural tensions. Focusing on the post-World War II era, McCann will trace the social and political values that contextualize the work of the abstract expressionists and early pop artists on view in MOCA's permanent collection. Ideas on Trial is presented in collaboration with the Master of Liberal Studies Program, USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. INFO 213/621-1745 or education@moca.org FREE; no reservations required Thu, 30 Sep 10 18:30:00 -0700 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=9&day=30#30 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=10&day=3#3 Explore works from MOCA's permanent collection and discover how artists have been inspired by Los Angeles. Meet and work with guest artist Vincent Valdez to create your own Los Angeles artwork with family and friends. INFO 213/621-1765 or fflores@moca.org FREE; no reservations required Sun, 03 Oct 10 13:00:00 -0700 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=10&day=3#3 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=10&day=7#7 Engagement Party presents new artworks in the form of dynamic social events and performances by LA-based artist collectives. INFO 213/621-1745 or moca.org/party FREE; no reservations required Thu, 07 Oct 10 19:00:00 -0700 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=10&day=7#7 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=10&day=14#14 This three-day film festival presented by Charles S. Cohen is based on New York's Film-Makers' Cooperative collection and showcases the long-term alliance between experimental cinema and countercultural activity. Covering the half-century from the early 1960s to the present, these films and videos explore sexuality, politics, communal experiments, and transgressive appropriations. Filmmakers Jonas Mekas, Carolee Schneemann, Ken Jacobs, Mike & George Kuchar, will all be in attendance. Join us for an opening reception on Thursday, October 14, at 7:30pm, followed by a film screening at 9:30pm. On Friday, there will be three screenings at 5:30pm, 7:30pm, and 9:30pm. On Saturday, there will be screenings at 3pm, 5:30pm, and 9:30pm. INFO 213/621-1745 or education@moca.org $8 MOCA members, $10 nonmembers Thu, 14 Oct 10 00:59:00 -0700 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=10&day=14#14 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=10&day=14#14 The Downtown Art Walk is a free, self-guided tour of the many galleries and museums in downtown Los Angeles. As a participating venue, MOCA provides the perfect stop on this downtown art excursion with FREE museum admission from 5-8pm, courtesy of Wells Fargo. Take advantage of the free Art Walk DASH shuttle from 7-10pm. The closest shuttle stop is approximately four blocks from MOCA Grand Avenue on Spring and 3rd Streets; the last shuttle leaves at 9:45pm. INFO downtownartwalk.com FREE Thu, 14 Oct 10 15:00:00 -0700 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=10&day=14#14 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=10&day=15#15 This three-day film festival presented by Charles S. Cohen is based on New York's Film-Makers' Cooperative collection and showcases the long-term alliance between experimental cinema and countercultural activity. Covering the half-century from the early 1960s to the present, these films and videos explore sexuality, politics, communal experiments, and transgressive appropriations. Filmmakers Jonas Mekas, Carolee Schneemann, Ken Jacobs, Mike & George Kuchar, will all be in attendance. Join us for an opening reception on Thursday, October 14, at 7:30pm, followed by a film screening at 9:30pm. On Friday, there will be three screenings at 5:30pm, 7:30pm, and 9:30pm. On Saturday, there will be screenings at 3pm, 5:30pm, and 9:30pm. INFO 213/621-1745 or education@moca.org $8 MOCA members, $10 nonmembers Fri, 15 Oct 10 00:59:00 -0700 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=10&day=15#15 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=10&day=16#16 This three-day film festival presented by Charles S. Cohen is based on New York's Film-Makers' Cooperative collection and showcases the long-term alliance between experimental cinema and countercultural activity. Covering the half-century from the early 1960s to the present, these films and videos explore sexuality, politics, communal experiments, and transgressive appropriations. Filmmakers Jonas Mekas, Carolee Schneemann, Ken Jacobs, Mike & George Kuchar, will all be in attendance. Join us for an opening reception on Thursday, October 14, at 7:30pm, followed by a film screening at 9:30pm. On Friday, there will be three screenings at 5:30pm, 7:30pm, and 9:30pm. On Saturday, there will be screenings at 3pm, 5:30pm, and 9:30pm. INFO 213/621-1745 or education@moca.org $8 MOCA members, $10 nonmembers Sat, 16 Oct 10 00:59:00 -0700 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=10&day=16#16 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=10&day=16#16 Referencing the work in The Artist's Museum: Los Angeles Artists 1980-2010, art historian Gwen Robertson will introduce participants to the major movements and ideas in art since the postwar era. The course will include slide lectures and gallery discussions at both downtown locations. Advanced registration required. Saturdays: October 16-November 6 INFO/REG 213/621-1745 or education@moca.org $130 MOCA members; $150 nonmembers Sat, 16 Oct 10 11:00:00 -0700 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=10&day=16#16 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=10&day=23#23 All MOCA members are welcome to attend the advance viewing of The Artist's Museum at MOCA Grand Avenue, showcasing the remarkable works in MOCA's collection produced by Los Angeles's finest since 1980. INFO 213/621-1794 or membership1@moca.org Sat, 23 Oct 10 11:00:00 -0700 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=10&day=23#23 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=10&day=30#30 Celebrate The Artist's Museum at an exclusive members-only event at MOCA's original industrial venue in Little Tokyo, widely recognized as an ideal exhibition space for today's working artists. Cash bar and music. INFO 213/621-1794 or membership1@moca.org Sat, 30 Oct 10 19:00:00 -0700 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=10&day=30#30 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=11&day=2#2 Enjoy the insider's view of MOCA on members-only tours. Members will explore MOCA Grand Avenue from permanent collection storage to the boardroom, get an overview of MOCA's landmark Bunker Hill building, and learn how to make the most of membership. Space is limited. Reservations required. INFO 213/621-1794 or membership1@moca.org Tue, 02 Nov 10 12:00:00 -0700 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=11&day=2#2 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=11&day=4#4 MOCA Gets Re-Engaged Engagement Party presents new artworks in the form of dynamic social events and performances by LA-based artist collectives. INFO 213/621-1745 or moca.org/party FREE; no reservations required Thu, 04 Nov 10 19:00:00 -0700 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=11&day=4#4 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=11&day=6#6 Originally staged at the ancient site of Persepolis in Persia in 1971, this high-intensity spectacle will be the first site-specific reinterpretation of Iannis Xenakis's pioneering musical land art spectacle, Polytope de Persepolis, adapted to the Los Angeles State Historic Park. Involving multiple loudspeakers, lasers, smoke, and searchlight projections, it will replicate the original performance as closely as possible. This event will coincide with the opening weekend of the exhibition Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary at the MOCA Pacific Design Center. INFO 213/621-1745 or education@moca.org FREE; no reservations required Sat, 06 Nov 10 18:00:00 -0700 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=11&day=6#6 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=11&day=7#7 In this workshop, participants will explore messages beyond the visual stimuli in MOCA's most recent exhibition The Artist's Museum. Following the tour, everyone will meet and work with a guest artist from the permanent collection to continue to investigate the ways artists communicate messages though their own personal works of art. INFO 213/621-1765 or fflores@moca.org FREE; no reservations required Sun, 07 Nov 10 13:00:00 -0800 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=11&day=7#7 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=11&day=7#7 West Coast premiere of the final version of Iannis Xenakis' only opera, Oresteia, including Kassandra (1987) and La Déesse Athéna (1992). Baritone Paul Berkolds, large mixed chorus, children's chorus, and orchestra. The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts presents a unique, open-air performance of Oresteia (The Orestes Story) by the pioneering modernist-futurist of music and architecture, Iannis Xenakis. Drawing directly from ancient Greek texts to create the shape of his composition, Xenakis crafted an arresting and electrifying sonic experience suitable to meet the tragic power of Aeschylus' intense explorations of the farthest corners of human nature. Twelve winds, brass and percussion, amplified solo cello, and mixed choruses with men, women and children are joined by baritone soloist Paul Berkolds in a performance aptly transiting sundown, creating a stunning setting for a work of such ancient potency. INFO is 661/253-7816 FREE; no reservations required Sun, 07 Nov 10 16:00:00 -0800 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=11&day=7#7 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=11&day=9#9 The MA Program in Aesthetics and Politics at the California Institute of the Arts presents an evening lecture by French philosopher Catherine Malabou. Professor Malabou teaches at the University of Paris X-Nanterre and is Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Her work articulates the concept of plasticity at the crossroads of continental philosophy and neuroscience, and her publications in English include: Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing, What Should We Do With Our Brainu, Counterpath (with Jacques Derrida), and The Future of Hegel. Her lecture at MOCA will draw from her current research on biology and biopolitics. Professor Malabou's lecture will be preceded by two afternoon panel discussions on the crossover of biology, technology, and the arts, featuring artists, philosophers, and scientists. They will begin at 4:30pm and will be followed by a dinner reception at 6:30pm. INFO http://calarts.edu/criticalstudies FREE; no reservations Tue, 09 Nov 10 19:30:00 -0800 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=11&day=9#9 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=11&day=11#11 The Downtown Art Walk is a free, self-guided tour of the many galleries and museums in downtown Los Angeles. As a participating venue, MOCA provides the perfect stop on this downtown art excursion with FREE museum admission from 5-8pm, courtesy of Wells Fargo. Take advantage of the free Art Walk DASH shuttle from 7-10pm. The closest shuttle stop is approximately four blocks from MOCA Grand Avenue on Spring and 3rd Streets; the last shuttle leaves at 9:45pm. INFO downtownartwalk.com FREE Thu, 11 Nov 10 15:00:00 -0800 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=11&day=11#11 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=11&day=14#14 In conjunction with Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary, exhibition co-curator Carey Lovelace presents an overview of the exhibition and discusses the contributions of Iannis Xenakis to music, architecture, and contemporary thought. INFO 213/621-1745 or education@moca.org FREE; no reservations required Sun, 14 Nov 10 15:00:00 -0800 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=11&day=14#14 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=11&day=21#21 Charisma X (Greece, 2009) This biographical sketch of Iannis Xenakis features archival footage of the composer and intriguing interviews with composers Georges Aperghis and François-Bernard Mâche, family members, musicians, and collaborators. Written and directed by Efi Xiro. La L&eacute:gende d'Eer (France, 1977-1978) La Légende d'Eer is a 7-channel electro-acoustic composition written by Xenakis for the opening of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. The performance of La Légende d'Eer is shown with a film by Bruno Rastoin, which is comprised of 350 stills made during the original performance of the work at the Diatope, an architectural construction designed by Xenakis. Master tapes by Gerard Pape. Directed by Bruno Rastoin. Sun, 21 Nov 10 15:00:00 -0800 http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=11&day=21#21