June 4, 2015
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Thursday
June 4, 2015Migrant Performance PerformanceThursday
June 4, 2015PerformanceMuseum visitors are invited to select presentations ofMigrant (2015), a periodic performance and installation made for William Pope.L: Trinket. Length of performance is three hours.The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA -
Thursday
June 4, 2015Artists on Artists: Andrea Fraser LectureThursday
June 4, 2015LectureArtists on Artists: Andrea Fraser
Andrea Fraser’s work, writes Pierre Bourdieu, is able to “trigger a social mechanism, a sort of machine infernale whose operation causes the hidden truth of social reality to reveal itself.” Fraser discusses William Pope.L: Trinket as part of a lecture that inaugurates Artists on Artists, a new series that builds upon MOCA’s tradition of examining works and exhibitions through the voice of the artist.The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA -
Friday
June 5, 2015MOCA Store Sale on the Plaza MOCA StoreFriday
June 5, 2015MOCA StoreMOCA Store Sale on the Plaza
40–75% off on select products–books, clothing, jewelry, and posters. All sales are final.MOCA Grand Avenue -
Friday
June 5, 2015Members' Opening: Tongues Untied Member EventFriday
June 5, 2015Member EventMembers' Opening: Tongues Untied
MOCA members get a first look of Tongues Untied with director Philippe Vergne and the exhibition organizer. Spend your Friday evening at the museum’s Pacific Design Center location, enjoy a hosted bar, and be among the first to see this new show. Self-parking is available in the Pacific Design Center lot.…WAREHOUSE at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA -
Saturday
June 6, 2015Tongues Untied ScreeningSaturday
June 6, 2015ScreeningTongues Untied
In conjunction with the eponymous new exhibition, MOCA presents Marlon Riggs’s landmark documentary Tongues Untied (1989) alongside his experimental video Anthem (1991). These films not only gave voice to the particular concerns of African-Americans at a critical moment during the AIDS crisis, but also…WAREHOUSE at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA -
Sunday
June 7, 2015Sunday Studio: Big Family Day All AgesSunday
June 7, 2015All AgesSunday Studio: Big Family Day
Big Family Day is the museum’s largest all-ages program of the year, a free party with studio projects on the plaza and conversations with student educators in the galleries. Museum visitors of all experience levels are in…MOCA Grand Avenue -
Monday
June 8, 2015Pop-Up: Clay Night MOCA StoreMonday
June 8, 2015MOCA StorePop-Up: Clay Night
Join the artists of Clay Night at the opening reception for their month-long pop-up (June 8–27) at The MOCA Store. Named for the weekly gathering in Frogtown, this presentation provides a glimpse into the night’s comfortable chaos, as finished and functional goods …MOCA Grand Avenue -
Thursday
June 11, 2015Reading: Claudia Rankine ReadingThursday
June 11, 2015ReadingReading: Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine reads in connection with William Pope.L: Trinket. In her latest poetry volume, Citizen: An American Lyric, Rankine investigates racial microaggressions in American media and daily life.The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA -
Friday
June 12, 2015Book Launch: Architectones ReadingFriday
June 12, 2015ReadingBook Launch: Architectones
Architectones: Art In the Living Environment collects Paris-based artist Xavier Veilhan’s site-specific installations in modernist landmarks around the world. Between 2012 and 2014, Veilhan used music, light, and sculpture to activate Richard Neutra’s VDL Research House in Silver Lake, Pierre Koenig’s Cas…MOCA Grand Avenue -
Thursday
June 18, 2015Duane Deterville on Kahlil Joseph LectureThursday
June 18, 2015LectureDuane Deterville on Kahlil Joseph
Duane Deterville examines the iconography, structure, and layered meanings in Kahlil Joseph: Double Conscience. Based in the Bay Area, the artist, writer, and scholar specializes in African and Afro-diasporic visual culture. Detervil…MOCA Grand Avenue -
Thursday
June 25, 2015Take None, Give None ScreeningThursday
June 25, 2015ScreeningTake None, Give None
Take None, Give None is a documentary by photographers Gusmano Cesaretti and Kurt Mangum about The Chosen Few, the nation’s first racially integrated motorcycle club. The film evolved from the club’s long-term relationship with Cesaretti, who began filming in 2010 to capture the experience of riding …MOCA Grand Avenue -
Saturday
June 27, 2015Panel and Book Signing: Five Artists in Search of a City MOCA StoreSaturday
June 27, 2015MOCA StorePanel and Book Signing: Five Artists in Search of a City
“Whatever one might think of L.A., it is actually something else,” says Michael Light in The Believer. “It shifts constantly. Color work on an overcast day, the difference in seasons, puffy Hudson River School clouds in betw…MOCA Grand Avenue -
Closed Sept 13 2015 – Opened June 6 2015
Closed Sept 13 2015 –
Opened June 6 2015Tongues Untied Closed Sept 13 2015 – Opened June 6 2015 -
Closed June 28 2015 – Opened Mar 20 2015
Closed June 28 2015 –
Opened Mar 20 2015William Pope.L: Trinket Closed June 28 2015 – Opened Mar 20 2015 -
Closed Dec 26 2015 – Opened June 25 2015
Closed Dec 26 2015 –
Opened June 25 2015The Underground Museum Closed Dec 26 2015 – Opened June 25 2015