Fine Art in So Cal

The Getty Museum

LACMA   MOCA

LACMA is the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. With 100,000 objects dating from ancient times to the present LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States. A museum of international stature as well as a vital part of Southern California, LACMA shares its vast collections through exhibitions, public programs, and research facilities that attract nearly a million visitors annually.
LACMA’s collections encompass the geographic world and virtually the entire history of art. Among the museum’s special strengths are its holdings of Asian art, housed in part in the Bruce Goff-designed Pavilion for Japanese Art; Latin American art, ranging from pre-Columbian masterpieces to works by leading modern and contemporary artists including Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and José Clemente Orozco; and Islamic art, of which LACMA hosts one of the most significant collections in the world.

LACMA is located at 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles CA, 90036. For more information about LACMA and its programming, call 323 857-6000 or log on to www.lacma.org

MOCA (The Museum of Contemporary Art)

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.

MOCA’s mission is to be the defining museum of contemporary art.

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), has achieved astonishing growth in its brief history—with three Los Angeles locations of architectural renown, more than 20,000 members, a permanent collection of nearly 6,000 works international in scope and among the finest in the nation, hallmark education programs that are widely emulated, award-winning publications that present
original scholarship, and groundbreaking monographic, touring, and thematic exhibitions of international repute that survey the art of our time.
MOCA’s mission is to be the defining museum of contemporary art. MOCA is a private not-for-profit institution supported by its members, corporate and foundation support, government grants, and admission revenues. MOCA Grand Avenue is open 11am to 5pm on Monday and Friday; 11am to 8pm on Thursday; 11am to 6pm on Saturday and Sunday; and closed on Tuesday and Wednesday. General admission is $10
for adults, $5 for students with I.D. and seniors (65+), and free for MOCA members, children under 12, and everyone on Thursdays from 5pm to 8pm courtesy of Wells Fargo.

MOCA is located at 250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Phone 213/626-6222.

Website: www.moca.org.

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