Programs • MOCA

Apr April 2017

Apr 1 — July 24 2017

Store Pop-Up: Tortoise General Store

MOCA Store
Apr 1 — July 24 2017

MOCA Store

Store Pop-Up: Tortoise General Store

The MOCA Store at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA transforms into a Zakka-style shop, a Japanese design phenomenon referring to objects that improve your home, life, and appearance.
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

Past Events

Closed Apr 30 2017 – Opened Mar 20 2016

Closed Apr 30 2017 –
Opened Mar 20 2016

Non-fiction

Closed Apr 30 2017 – Opened Mar 20 2016

Non-fiction
Closed Apr 2 2017 – Opened Dec 17 2016

Closed Apr 2 2017 –
Opened Dec 17 2016

Rick Owens: Furniture

Closed Apr 2 2017 – Opened Dec 17 2016

Rick Owens: Furniture
Saturday
Apr 1, 2017

Members' Opening: Carl Andre: Sculpture as Place, 1958–2010

Member Event
Saturday
Apr 1, 2017

Member Event

Members' Opening: Carl Andre: Sculpture as Place, 1958–2010

MOCA members get a first look at Carl Andre: Sculpture as Place, 1958–2010 at the members’ opening this spring.
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Apr 1 — July 24 2017

Store Pop-Up: Tortoise General Store

MOCA Store
Apr 1 — July 24 2017

MOCA Store

Store Pop-Up: Tortoise General Store

The MOCA Store at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA transforms into a Zakka-style shop, a Japanese design phenomenon referring to objects that improve your home, life, and appearance.
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Closed July 24 2017 – Opened Apr 2 2017

Closed July 24 2017 –
Opened Apr 2 2017

Carl Andre: Sculpture as Place, 1958–2010

Closed July 24 2017 – Opened Apr 2 2017

Carl Andre: Sculpture as Place, 1958–2010
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Closed June 12 2017 – Opened Apr 2 2017

Closed June 12 2017 –
Opened Apr 2 2017

Arthur Jafa: Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death

Closed June 12 2017 – Opened Apr 2 2017

Arthur Jafa: Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Closed June 12 2017 – Opened Apr 2 2017

Closed June 12 2017 –
Opened Apr 2 2017

Selections from the Permanent Collection: Catherine Opie and Sterling Ruby

Closed June 12 2017 – Opened Apr 2 2017

Selections from the Permanent Collection: Catherine Opie and Sterling Ruby
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Sunday
Apr 2, 2017

Arthur Jafa and Helen Molesworth in Conversation

Lecture
Sunday
Apr 2, 2017

Lecture

Arthur Jafa and Helen Molesworth in Conversation

Join Arthur Jafa and Helen Molesworth in conversation on the occasion of Arthur Jafa: Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, the West Coast premiere of the artist, director, and award-winning cinematographer’s new video.
Sunday
Apr 9, 2017

Harryette Mullen

Reading
Sunday
Apr 9, 2017

Reading

Harryette Mullen

For Harryette Mullen, poet and a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, language expresses human diversity. Born in Alabama and raised in Texas, she reflects, “I think my childhood experience left me sensitive to the articulation of difference in language. I could see how language was use…
MOCA Grand Avenue
Thursday
Apr 20, 2017

Helen Molesworth

Lecture
Thursday
Apr 20, 2017

Lecture

Helen Molesworth

MOCA Chief Curator Helen Molesworth leads a walk-through of Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, a retrospective of 35 years of work by artist Kerry James Marshall.
MOCA Grand Avenue
Friday
Apr 21, 2017

Members' Opening: Peter Shire: Naked Is the Best Disguise

Member Event
Friday
Apr 21, 2017

Member Event

Members' Opening: Peter Shire: Naked Is the Best Disguise

MOCA members are invited to celebrate the opening of Peter Shire: Naked Is the Best Disguise.
WAREHOUSE at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Closed July 2 2017 – Opened Apr 22 2017

Closed July 2 2017 –
Opened Apr 22 2017

Peter Shire: Naked Is the Best Disguise

Closed July 2 2017 – Opened Apr 22 2017

Peter Shire: Naked Is the Best Disguise
Saturday
Apr 22, 2017

MOCA Teen Night

All Ages
Saturday
Apr 22, 2017

All Ages

MOCA Teen Night

Inspired by the retrospective Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, Teen Night—an event created by teens for teens—will explore Marshall’s development as a painter and our nation’s evolving ideas and attitudes towards race.
MOCA Grand Avenue
Sunday
Apr 23, 2017

Marie Buck and Anna Vitale

Reading
Sunday
Apr 23, 2017

Reading

Marie Buck and Anna Vitale

Join us for readings by poets Marie Buck and Anna Vitale in conjunction with the exhibition storefront: THIS KNOWN WORLD: Spontaneous Particulars of the Poetic Research Bureau.
MOCA Grand Avenue
Sunday
Apr 30, 2017

Charles Bernstein

Lecture
Sunday
Apr 30, 2017

Lecture

Charles Bernstein

Poet and scholar Charles Bernstein speaks about the poetry of Carl Andre and his own notion of “poetry plastique.”
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA