Past Events

• Thursday
  June 1, 2017

  What is Contemporary? Ultra-red, Leslie Berestein Rojas, and Eric Avila in Conversation

  

  Lecture

  Thursday
  June 1, 2017

  Lecture

  What is Contemporary? Ultra-red, Leslie Berestein Rojas, and Eric Avila in Conversation

  ​The accelerated arrival of commercial art galleries and artist-run spaces in Boyle Heights and its adjacent neighborhoods are at the core of this roundtable discussion. The artist collective Ultra-red, long-time defenders of the public housing community in Los Angeles, will speak with Leslie Berestein Rojas, KPCC’s…

  MOCA Grand Avenue

• Thursday
  June 8, 2017

  Lanka Tattersall

  

  Lecture

  Thursday
  June 8, 2017

  Lecture

  Lanka Tattersall

  ​MOCA Assistant Curator Lanka Tattersall leads a walkthrough of Patrick Staff: Weed Killer. Staff’s immersive, MOCA-commissioned video installation takes the effects of chemotherapy as its central subject, mixing choreographic gestures shot with high-definition thermal imaging and a…

  MOCA Grand Avenue

• Thursday
  June 8, 2017

  S. Løchlann Jain

  

  Lecture

  Thursday
  June 8, 2017

  Lecture

  S. Løchlann Jain

  ​S. Løchlann Jain will present a lecture on the complex subject of cancer and its broad social implications on the occasion of Patrick Staff: Weed Killer. Jain’s 2016 J. I. Staley Prize–winning book, Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us, was an essentia…

  MOCA Grand Avenue

• Thursday
  June 29, 2017

  Artists on Artists: Deana Lawson on Kerry James Marshall

  

  Lecture

  Thursday
  June 29, 2017

  Lecture

  Artists on Artists: Deana Lawson on Kerry James Marshall

  ​Photographer Deana Lawson creates arresting portraits of perfect strangers. By representing the Black body both intimately and frontally, Lawson makes images that conjure narrative in a truly distinct visual style. With a practice centered on documentation of the familial, human sexuality, and the life cycle itself…

  MOCA Grand Avenue