MidWeek Update: Upcoming Programs @ MOCA

12.26.18

Hello and Good Morning to you! Hope everyone’s Christmas was a nice and wonderful one. Mine was peaceful. I’m back with a few things to post today, like what’s going on at Moca, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Here’s a peek at what they have in store for January 2019.

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Exhibition Highlight Tours

EVERY THURSDAY: 5:30PM & 6:30PM

EVERY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY: 12PM & 2PM

 

THURSDAY
JAN 3, 2019 @ The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

LECTURE

Artists on Artists: Rebecca Morris on Laura Owens

On the occasion of Laura Owens at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, painter Rebecca Morris addresses the exhibition and her take on the medium of painting as employed by fellow painter Owens.

 

 

SCREENING

Filmforum at MOCA: Small, Real: Observation and the Mundane

One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art is inspired by artist Manny Farber’s call for an art of “both observing and being in the world.” Presented in conjunction with Kahlil Joseph’s film Fly Paper, which is the subject of a companion exhibition at MOCA Pacific Design Center, this program presents experimental film and video works by Cleon Arrey, Micah Ariel Watson, and Huey Amaru that employ the constituent parts of Joseph’s practice, namely observation, musicality, and a documentary impulse.

 

 

MEMBER EVENT

Members’ Behind-the-Scenes Tour

See the museum from the inside-out! Get an insider’s look at MOCA Grand Avenue, from the rooftop to the basement, on this exclusive tour for members.

 

 

 

SCREENING

Blame the Audience #3: A Film Series Organized by Jason Simon

On the occasion of One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, filmmaker, artist, and teacher Jason Simon, a former student of Farber’s, has organized a film series inspired by Farber’s teaching. The third installment in the series features shorts by Jared Buckhiester, Jonathas de Andrade, Kahlil Joseph, and Dani Leventhal.

 

 

LECTURE

Jordan Casteel on One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art

Painter Jordan Casteel will give a public tour of works in One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art that speak to concerns of the quotidian, including her own.

 

 

LECTURE

Zoe Leonard and Gregg Bordowitz in Conversation

In connection to Zoe Leonard: Survey, an exhibition highlighting Leonard’s rigorous, questioning attention to the politics and conditions of image making and display, Leonard and artist and writer Gregg Bordowitz discuss the retrospective as a format, as part of their longstanding friendship and dialogue.

 

 

PERFORMANCE

MOCA Music: Los Globos

In celebration of the culture of reggae and the legacy of one of the movement’s icons, Bob Marley, this MOCA Music session is presented in collaboration with Jamaica Tourism and the Jamaican Ministry of Culture, To Di World Collective, and Young African Movement.

 

Want to know more about MOCA? Go to www.moca.org to get the information, that is if you live in LA. 

 

 

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