Programs • MOCA

Jan January 2018

Oct 5 — Jan 8 2018

Store Pop-Up: Poketo

MOCA Store
Oct 5 — Jan 8 2018

MOCA Store

Store Pop-Up: Poketo

MOCA Store at MOCA Grand Avenue presents a pop-up shop with Los Angeles–based Poketo.
MOCA Grand Avenue

Sunday
Jan 7, 2018

Jon Christensen on the Anthropocene

Lecture
Sunday
Jan 7, 2018

Lecture

Jon Christensen on the Anthropocene

Adrián Villar Rojas’s The Theater of Disappearance offers an opportunity to reflect on the unstable era we inhabit and our role as a planetary geological force. Environmental historian and science writer Jon Christensen is a cofounder of the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative S…
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Thursday
Jan 11, 2018

Filmforum: Estrellas de ayer: Latin Camp

Screening
Thursday
Jan 11, 2018

Screening

Filmforum: Estrellas de ayer: Latin Camp

If nostalgia is the impossibility of a return to origin, queer nostalgia is the salvage of a symbolic past. This program proposes a new constellation of Latina/o American fascination with Hollywood starlets: José Rodríguez Soltero’s classic Lupe (1966); the celebration of decadenti…
MOCA Grand Avenue
Jan 18 — Mar 19 2018

Store Pop-Up: THIS X THAT

MOCA Store
Jan 18 — Mar 19 2018

MOCA Store

Store Pop-Up: THIS X THAT

Now extended through May 12! MOCA Store presents a pop-up with Los Angeles– based THIS X THAT, featuring limited-edition items for home and garden that offer imaginative solutions for everyday life.
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Sunday
Jan 21, 2018

Rafa Esparza: cumbre: look as far as you can see in every direction—north and south, east and west

Performance
Sunday
Jan 21, 2018

Performance

Rafa Esparza: cumbre: look as far as you can see in every direction—north and south, east and west

This newly commissioned work by Rafa Esparza is an ambitious, three-part performance at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Esparza’s point of departure is a meditation on bridges and bodies of water as sites of connection and healing, division and risk. The artist’s performance responds to personal, familial his…
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Thursday
Jan 25, 2018

Thomas Hutton

Lecture
Thursday
Jan 25, 2018

Lecture

Thomas Hutton

Artist and Seeld Library cofounder Thomas Hutton will lead a specially-conceived guided tour along the periphery of MOCA Grand Avenue, weaving a complex of histories into a kind of labyrinth that will uncover, overturn, and a number of surrounding sites. Participants will delve behind material and immaterial facades…
MOCA Grand Avenue
Sunday
Jan 28, 2018

Rebecca Matalon: Welcome to the Dollhouse Walkthrough

Lecture
Sunday
Jan 28, 2018

Lecture

Rebecca Matalon: Welcome to the Dollhouse Walkthrough

Using MOCA’s permanent collection to address, document, and deconstruct notions of domesticity, Welcome to the Dollhouse includes works by artists who repurpose familiar household objects to shift their meaning, or capture domestic spaces and their required maintenance using more j…
WAREHOUSE at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Closed Jan 3 2018 – Opened Dec 16 2016

Closed Jan 3 2018 –
Opened Dec 16 2016

Jonas Wood: Still Life with Two Owls (MOCA)

Closed Jan 3 2018 – Opened Dec 16 2016

Jonas Wood: Still Life with Two Owls (MOCA)
MOCA Grand Avenue
Closed Jan 22 2018 – Opened Aug 4 2017

Closed Jan 22 2018 –
Opened Aug 4 2017

Anna Maria Maiolino

Closed Jan 22 2018 – Opened Aug 4 2017

Anna Maria Maiolino
MOCA Grand Avenue
Closed Jan 22 2018 – Opened Aug 16 2017

Closed Jan 22 2018 –
Opened Aug 16 2017

Laughing on the Outside: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Closed Jan 22 2018 – Opened Aug 16 2017

Laughing on the Outside: Selections from the Permanent Collection
MOCA Grand Avenue
Closed Apr 8 2018 – Opened Jan 20 2018

Closed Apr 8 2018 –
Opened Jan 20 2018

Welcome to the Dollhouse

Closed Apr 8 2018 – Opened Jan 20 2018

Welcome to the Dollhouse
Closed July 8 2018 – Opened Jan 19 2018

Closed July 8 2018 –
Opened Jan 19 2018

storefront: Full Haus: The Seeld Library

Closed July 8 2018 – Opened Jan 19 2018

storefront: Full Haus: The Seeld Library
MOCA Grand Avenue
Closed Feb 25 2019 – Opened Jan 9 2018

Closed Feb 25 2019 –
Opened Jan 9 2018

MOCA Mural: Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Closed Feb 25 2019 – Opened Jan 9 2018

MOCA Mural: Njideka Akunyili Crosby
MOCA Grand Avenue