Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles – Virtual Tour

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) is a contemporary art museum with two locations in greater Los Angeles, California. MOCA Downtown is located on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles. MOCA Geffen is situated in the Little Tokyo district of downtown Los Angeles. 

The museum’s exhibits are primarily of American and European art created after 1940 with a focus on multi-disciplinary contemporary art.

The MOCA Downtown Los Angeles location, which has been branded as the “MOCA Grand,” is home to almost 5,000 artworks. The works including masterpieces by classic contemporary artists, and inspiring new works by emerging and mid-career artists.

The MOCA Geffen is the largest of the museum’s locations and is suited to large-scale sculptural works and conceptual, multi-media, or electronic installations. It is typically used to display more recent works and works that require a large amount of space.

Highlights of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

• Number 15 by Jackson Pollock
• Number 1, 1949 by Jackson Pollock
• Composition of Red, Blue, Yellow, and White: Nom III by Piet Mondrian
• Alva by Franz Kline
• Goldfish Bowl by Roy Lichtenstein
• Man with Folded Arms by Roy Lichtenstein
• No. 46 [Black, Ochre, Red Over Red] by Mark Rothko
• XXXIV Drawings for Dante’s Inferno by Robert Rauschenberg
• Grey on White. No. LXV by Antoni Tàpies

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)

• Name:               Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
• City:                   Los Angeles
• Country:            United States
• Established:      1979
• Type:                 Art Museum
• Location:           250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, United States

The Betrothal I by Arshile Gorky

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Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles – 360 View

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles – 360 View

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles – 360 View

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles – 360 View

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles – 360 View

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

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Photo Credit: vasse nicolas,antoine / CC BY (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0); Dietmar Rabich / Wikimedia Commons / “Los Angeles (California, USA), South Olive Street — 2012 — 8” / CC BY-SA 4.0; Arshile Gorky / Public domain