MOCA Audio and Podcasts
Summary: A collection of Audio Tours, and archive of Art Talks from the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. Founded in 1979, MOCA is the only museum in Los Angeles devoted exclusively to contemporary art. It is committed to the collection, presentation, and interpretation of work produced since 1940 in all media, and to preserving that work for future generations. In a remarkably short time, MOCA has developed one of the nation's most renowned permanent collections. Now numbering over 5,000 works and steadily growing, this invaluable cultural resource provides extensive opportunities for education and enjoyment to thousands of national and international visitors. Today the museum is housed in three unique facilities: MOCA Grand Avenue, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, and MOCA Pacific Design Center.
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Podcasts:
Fashion designer Isabel Toledo and artist Ruben Toledo discuss their synergistic marriage of art and fashion in conjunction with Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture.
During a walkthrough of Eva Hesse Drawing, exhibition co-curator and distinguished Hesse scholar Elisabeth Sussman examines how the artist’s drawings reveal distinct changes in Hesse’s artistic practice.
Postwar Directions: Abstract Expressionism to Minimalism presents a selection of works from MOCA’s permanent collection. Created by Chief Curator Paul Schimmel, the exhibition includes American and European sculpture, paintings and drawings from the 1940s, ‘50s, and ‘60s. The exhibition functions as a brief introduction to the developments and differing ideas that inform contemporary art and influence the other artists on view at MOCA. Leonard Nimoy will act as your guide on this podcast tour, designed especially for families to enjoy together. You’ll hear comments from artists and curators, as well as suggestions for interesting activities and questions to think about and discuss as a family. Pauses in the recording are provided for you to take time to look more closely and discuss your thoughts and feelings about a particular work. Take a minute to think or share you ideas.
To conclude the series of talks associated with Robert Rauschenberg: Combines, Chief Curator Paul Schimmel offers thought-provoking and personal insights into the various meanings behind several works from the exhibition.
After examining the Combines for three years as the research assistant for Robert Rauschenberg Combines, Mary Beth Carosello discusses Wordplay in Rauschenberg's Combines.
Director and Chief Curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, Thelma Golden speaks about Lorna Simpson and how Simpson's work has informed the way in which she looks at gender, race, and identity in the artist's work.
As a special offer to our members, and as part of our series Art Talks by Gallery C, on Sunday May 21 MOCA Education presented a very special afternoon of discussion between Robert Rauschenberg, MOCA Chief Curator and exhibition curator of Robert Rauschenberg: Combines, Paul Schimmel, and New Yorker art critic and author of Off the Wall: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg, Calvin Tomkins. The three men discussed the artist’s vision, the Combines, and the story behind the goat.
As a special offer to our members, and as part of our series Art Talks by Gallery C, on Sunday May 21 MOCA Education presented a very special afternoon of discussion between Robert Rauschenberg, MOCA Chief Curator and exhibition curator of Robert Rauschenberg: Combines, Paul Schimmel, and New Yorker art critic and author of Off the Wall: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg, Calvin Tomkins. The three men discussed the artist’s vision, the Combines, and the story behind the goat.
