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As “Cinema Vezzoli” exhibit closes today at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, this majestic YouTube video of swinging testicles triumphs, surviving six whole days without being censored — though “NSFW” has been added to the title, as well as a Community Guidelines disclaimer. In “The Return of Bruce Nauman’s Bouncing Balls,” Francesco Vezzoli casts porn star Brad […]
We loved the Mike Kelley retrospective at MoMA PS1 last year, and now that it’s moved to MOCA Geffen in Los Angeles, it appears that we’ve missed out on one dirty detail. This is Mike Kelley’s Chinatown Wishing Well. Carolina Miranda writes: It’s a lot to absorb. But while you’re at it, don’t forget to take a peek under and […]
The much-anticipated Jeff Koons retrospective isn’t coming to MoCA as planned for this coming January. Instead, the retrospective will debut at the Whitney in New York in June 2014, then travel to the Centre Pompidou in Paris in October 2014. It’s not entirely cancelled — a MOCA rep tried to quell the ripple of confusion and balloon jokes […]
According to an unnamed MOCA trustee, Jeffrey Deitch, the current director of L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art and former director of Deitch Projects has announced his expected departure from the museum. As he explained to museum board members, “It’s not you, it’s me.” The art dealer/curator had assumed the position as museum director three years ago (with a five-year […]
New York-based, internationally-sprawling Aboveground Animation collective is showing new work at MOCA at the end of the month, presented by MOCAtv. Casey Jane Ellison’s crew consistently produces solid, varied work that pushes media boundaries and fucks your brain into a different dimension. The latest commissioned works from Kathleen Daniel, Barry Doupe, Erin Dunn, Lauren Gregory, Jacolby Satterwhite and […]
“They don’t have a Stella and we don’t have a Rauschenberg,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art director Michael Govan says, as simple as that. Yesterday, the LA institution made a formal proposal for a merger with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angles. Govan says it was MOCA board members’ idea originally, according […]
