Join us this Friday, November 7, for free admission to MONUMENTS from 11am–8pm at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Plus, enjoy an evening DJ set by Ashley Younniä, multi-disciplinary music curator and performing artist, on the plaza from 6–8pm. RSVP at MOCA.org/programs ✨

⚾️ A true victory in the spirit of Pettibon’s line: skill as an act of beauty. Dodgers lead 2–1, and we’re back at it tonight! Go Dodgers!💙🌭

This is Roxy Paine’s “Weed Choked Garden”, 1998-2005 on view in “Fictions of Display” at MOCA Grand Avenue through January 4, 2026.

Not all shoes are made for walking, some are made for display. 👠 In "Fictions of Display" on view now at MOCA Grand Avenue, shoes become props, stages become stories, and display becomes performance. Which one would you wear? Tag yourself!

MONUMENTS opens Thursday October 23, 2025, at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and The Brick. 📆 October 23, 2025 — April 12, 2026 📍The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA 📍The Brick 🔗 More info at MOCA.org/exhibition/monuments

This is Silke Otto-Knapp’s “Schattentheater (Chalk circles),” 2017.

Yes, that really is a flying cat. 🐈✈️ In Untitled (The Flying Cat), 1994, Richard Billingham captures his dad Ray—cider in hand—dodging the unexpected. Both comic and raw, his photographs turn everyday family life into images full of humor, tenderness, and humanity. #WorldPhotographyDay

✏️ Artist #CatherineWagner captures the quiet details of classrooms, tracing human activity and intention in her series "American Classroom". For thousands of students across L.A. County, today is the first day of school. Wishing all students and teachers a great start to the school year! 🎒📚

Painting the sea—No coastline required.✨🐚 Takako Yamaguchi’s vivid seascapes draw from a myriad of references: fashion magazines, books, Japanese aesthetics, 20th century design. The result? A richly layered and luminous body of work she calls “abstractions in reverse.”

Olafur Eliasson: OPEN is CLOSING this weekend. Shoutout to our members for kicking it off with us! MOCA members enjoy perks like early access to new exhibitions & discounts at the MOCA Store. Members make it all happen! Join today and stay connected to what’s next.  www.moca.org/support/memb....

"You see what you understand. You have to be prepared to see the world. The moment of clicking the camera is almost irrelevant. What is really important is what happens before and after you take the picture." - Gabriel Orozco

At her show “Police State,” running June 5 to 14 at The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Nadya Tolokonnikova is staying in a steel replica of her Russian cell. www.kcrw.com/news/shows/p... @pussyriot.bsky.social @moca-la.bsky.social

Pussy Riot co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova is making a deliberate return to the prison cell – as a performance artist. From June 5 to 14 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. deadline.com/gallery/puss... @moca-la.bsky.social @pussyriot.bsky.social

"POLICE STATE", a durational performance by Nadya Tolokonnikova (Pussy Riot) opens tomorrow, Thursday, June 5, and runs through Sunday, June 15.

Happy Birthday, Donald Judd! Known for his precise forms, industrial materials, and radical approach to space, Judd was a pioneer of Minimalism, but always resisted the label. From New York to Marfa, his work continues to remind us that simplicity can be deeply complex.

This past February, MOCA presented the US premier of Wael Shawky’s celebrated film installation ‘Drama 1882’. Debuted at the Egyptian Pavilion of the 2024 Venice Biennale, ‘Drama 1882’ is a spectacular restaging of historical events, and explores Shawky’s interest in historical counter-narratives.

A cat and a mouse are caught in a forbidden embrace. A banished dog peers in through an open window. A human figure sits confined in a cage. Hadi Falapishi’s 'Young and Clueless', 2021 is currently on view in 'Diary of Flowers: Artists and their Worlds' at MOCA Grand Ave through January 4.

🪩The annual MOCA Gala returns May 31 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, in partnership with Bulgari, and this year, we’re honoring the influence and impact of "MOCA Legends" Theaster Gates, Frank Gehry & Wendy Schmidt. ✨

Miró knew that the real party starts after dark. Cheers to the long weekend! ✨⭐️💫

Gemini season is here—and Alice Neel saw it coming. ✨

Founder of the Tongva Land Stewardship Crew Samantha Johnson Yang discusses the indigenous relationship to fire at our April Resilience & Rebuilding virtual program 🌱

Nadya Tolokonnikova, on Putin’s “most wanted criminals” list, will spend June 5 to 14 in a replica of a Russian prison cell at MOCA Los Angeles. “The best people of Russia are behind bars.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/a... @moca-la.bsky.social @pussyriot.bsky.social

Previewed in The New York Times today, Nadya Tolokonnikova (Pussyriot) "POLICE STATE" opens at WAREHOUSE at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA on June 5.

MOCA Store Presents "How to Tell When We Will Die: A Celebration with Johanna Hedva" Multimedia presentation, discussion, and book signing. Thursday, May 15, 2025 | 6–8pm FREE with RSVP www.moca.org/program/book...

Member Shopping Days happening NOW at MOCA Store! Shop for discounts on selected items now through Sunday, May 11. mocastore.org

Q: Who loves museum memberships? A: Mothers and caregivers! Give the gift of MOCA membership this Mother's Day. Gift success guaranteed. www.moca.org/support/memb... Image credit: Photograph courtesy of Robin Sukhadia

"Bob" by Milka Djordjevich Friday, May 9th, 2025: 7:30pm Saturday, May 10th, 2025: 4pm "Bob" is a manic whirlwind of methodical rapid-fire movements, dictated, performed and self-enforced by Milka Djordjevich. Set to throbbing music composed by Djordjevich. www.moca.org/program/milk...

LAST CHANCE WEEKEND to see "Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968" at MOCA Grand Avenue. Closing Sunday, May 4th, 2025.

📽️ MOCA Artist Film Series RETURNS! 🥳 For more info: moca.org/artistfilmseries

“Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968” will close this Sunday, May 4, 2025. Join exhibition curator, Anna Katz, TONIGHT May 1 at 6pm for a curator-led tour of the galleries. 📍MOCA Grand Avenue 📆Thursday, May 1, 2025 ⏰6pm 🎟️FREE with RSVP > www.moca.org/program/ordi...

🪭 Mercado MOCA is THIS FRIDAY! Join us for a day to night celebration highlighting Chicano culture and community! 📅 Friday, May 2, 2025 ⏰ 2–8pm 📍 The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA 🎟️ FREE FOR ALL! RSVP: www.moca.org/program/firs... 🛍️ 50+ VENDORS 😋 FOOD+DRINKS 🎶 LA BASED DJs

🌿 Join us virtually TOMORROW for "Resilience & Rebuilding: The Los Angeles of Tomorrow." ⏰ 11am–2pm 📅 Tuesday, April 29, 2025 📍 Virtual Program 🎟️ FREE with RSVP > www.moca.org/program/resi...

🌍 HAPPY EARTH DAY 💚 MOCA "Map," 1999, by Mona Hatoum is on view in the exhibition "Diary of Flowers: Artists and their Worlds," at MOCA Grand Avenue, now through Jan. 4, 2026.

POV: It's almost Friday. "Mom in Striped Shirt," 2011, by Judie Bamber is on view in "Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968." At MOCA Grand Avenue, now through May 4, 2025.

💚 THE PLANT SALE IS BACK THIS SATURDAY! 🗓️ Saturday, April 19, 2025 ⏰ 11am–4pm 📍The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA 🎟️ FREE 🌿 moca.org/program/the-plant-sale Image credit: @lenitabygrita

Join us for an engaging presentation with conceptual artist, feminist, educator, and writer,  Mary Kelly. Roski Talks: Mary Kelly Tuesday, April 22, 2025 6–7:30pm MOCA Grand Avenue www.moca.org/program/rosk...

💫 Join us on Sunday May 4 for two spectacular performances by artists Kilo Kish and Autumn Breon, in celebration of the final weekend of MOCA culture:LAB's collaboration with Womxn In Windows. 🗓️ Sunday, May 4, 2025 ⏰ 1–4pm 📍MOCA Grand Avenue 🎟️ FREE with RSVP www.moca.org/program/wrap...

Need help with your fire-damaged art and heirlooms? Join us at the Conservation Clinic. 🗓️ Sunday,April 27, 2025 ⏰ 11am–3pm 📍The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA 🎟️ FREE with RSVP > moca.org/programs

⭐ Puppets! Music! Games! AND ART! ⭐ Join us for the 11th Annual Bob Baker Day on April 13th from 10 AM – 5 PM at Los Angeles State Historic Park. We’ll be joining Bob Baker Marionette Theater for a FREE all-day festival! ⭐ RSVP at BobBakerDay.com and we’ll see you there!

Join us tomorrow Friday, April 4, 2025, at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA for FIRST FRIDAYS! Free admission to Olafur Eliasson: OPEN + a Slowness Workshop + MOCA Climate Conversation: "Like Lichen." RSVP here > www.moca.org/program/firs...

💕 MOCA is proud to present the Spring 2025 season of Wonmi's WAREHOUSE Programs at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA on select dates from May 9 through June 28, 2025. For more info and tickets > www.moca.org/programs/202...

"I took the pictures....so that nostalgia could never color my past. I wanted to make a record of my life that nobody could revise: not a safe, clean version, but instead, an account of what things really looked like and felt like and smelled like." – Nan Goldin on "The Ballad of Sexual Dependecy."

MOCA extends its condolences to the family and friends of Los Angeles artist Joe Goode, who died this week at age 87. Associated with a wide variety of movements, Goode came to national recognition at the dawn of the Los Angeles contemporary art world. RIP Joe Goode (1937-2025).

Join us this Friday for the second "Resilience & Rebuilding," a series of virtual programs which examines the effects of the recent devastating wildfires in LA > www.moca.org/program/resi...

Saturday plans? Come to MOCA Grand Avenue and join artist rafa esparza for a walkthrough of "MOCA Focus: Ana Segovia." 📍 MOCA Grand Avenue 🗓️ Saturday, March 29, 2025 ⏰ 3–4PM 🎟️ FREE with RSVP moca.org/programs Image credit: Image courtesy of the artist. Photo by Max Knight.

Shenny De Los Angeles is a Dominican-American interdisciplinary spoken word poet, writer, and director. Her work centers the sacred lives of Black and Brown Caribbean femmes. Her work is on view now at MOCA Grand Ave as part of the culture:Lab x Womxn in Windows series "American Gurl: home—land."

This Sunday is SUNDAY STUDIO at MOCA GRAND AVENUE! Art-making for all ages + dancing + painting + Sustainable Skills workshop! FREE with RSVP > moca.org/programs

🌸 Happy Spring Equinox to the Northern Hemisphere! If you need some flower power to get you in the mood, come see "A Diary of Flowers - Above the Clouds," 1995 by Jim Hodges. On view in "Diary of Flowers: Artists and their Worlds," at MOCA Grand Avenue, now through Jan. 4, 2026.

"MOCA Focus: Ana Segovia" is the artist's first solo museum exhibition and marks a new chapter in his practice, bringing together three recent bodies of work in which he coyly posits a queer version of a dance movie à la "Footloose."

"The thrill of a photo-realist painter is if you get really close to the painting, it looks just like a photograph. Whereas in my case, if you get close to my paintings, they totally fall apart – so I’m about as far from a photo-realist as it gets.” – @marilynminter.bsky.social