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Last night Thom Yorke and producer Nigel Godrich hopped on stage at MOCA to DJ at the Mike D-curated festival Transmission L.A. and played previously unreleased songs from their supergroup Atoms For Peace. The new songs played during the set could be material from the group's highly-anticipated debut LP. more ›

If you happened to cruise past The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) on Saturday and witness an alarming amount of smoke and fire coming from the northern exterior wall of The Geffen Contemporary, do not worry. The flames roared in the name of art, not arson. more ›

Beastie Boy Mike D is the man with the master plan for an upcoming multimedia arts festival, "Transmission LA". The 21-day festival is the second "Transmission" event; the first one last year was in Berlin and was curated by Raf Simons. more ›

The late artist Mike Kelley took his own life last month, while he was at his home in South Pasadena. Now MOCA will be offering "A Tribute to Mike Kelley" in an exhibition that features several works from the artist in its permanent collection, as well as works he had donated to the museum. more ›

Swiss artist Christoph Buchel is going underground for his next exhibition: he plans to bury a decommissioned 727 jetliner 38 feet under the surface of the Mojave desert for his piece "Terminal." Viewers who make the drive out to Boron will be able to take a passageway and go inside the airplane whose windows will be sealed. more ›

When performance artist Marina Abramović put out a call to performers to participate in a performance piece for MOCA's fundraising gala, she whipped up a frenzy in the art community. This afternoon LACE is hosting a forum discussing some of the issues that were brought up by the performance (which made some donors clutch their pearls). more ›

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is currently showing, “ICONS”, a small retrospective of Kenneth Anger’s work. The show at MoCA may be reminiscent of a 2009 retrospective at MoMA PS1 in New York City, as it revolves closely to the “Magick Lantern Cycle” series which Anger put together as suitable films for public screening. more ›

MOCA's annual gala was Saturday night, and it apparently caused some ruffled feathers. Curated by performance artist Marina Abramovic, the event, entitled "An Artist’s Life Manifesto," started off typically enough, with cocktails, mingling, and polite, art-y conversation. But according to a write-up in the New York Observer by Susan Michals, when guests moved into the fancy dining portion of the evening, they were greeted with a few unwelcome surprises. more ›

Elizabeth Taylor's famous jewels and threads are set to be auctioned off to some really rich people this December, but for four days this October they will be on display for you to gawk and admire in West Hollywood. more ›

Sometimes the wilderness is better experienced in your backyard, or, say, MOCA's Grand Avenue Lodge. The campfire program "explores the full spectrum of habitation options" in DTLA, per MOCA. more ›

Aaron Brothers' Artrageous campaign is actually sparking some genuine outrage in some corners of city hall. As a part of a back-to-school promotion, the company is showcasing the work of prominent street artists at live events and offering free "graffiti starter kits" to attendees. Those kits are what have really riled up councilman Dennis Zine. Yesterday he introduced a resolution to the city council asking Aaron Brothers to stop the campaign that he says glorifies vandalism — never mind that the so-called "graffiti starter kits" don't even have the right materials to launch would-be Shepard Faireys or Banksys. The kits themselves are little more than cleverly marketed markers and paper. more ›

Street art draws millions of unwitting viewers daily, but put the stuff in a museum and charge admission, and, whadda ya know? The show breaks records! The Museum of Contemporary Art is congratulating themselves on a job well done with the innovative "Art in the Streets" exhibit that ran for 81 days and drew 201,352 patrons, besting the previous record set by their 2002 Warhol Retrospective. more ›

Writer, actor, director and performance artists Miranda July has added museum-worthy sculptress to her resume, with a traveling installation that went on display this weekend at MOCA's Pacific Design Center location. "Eleven Heavy Things" is an interactive set of pieces that challenge the viewer to not only put themselves in the images created by the sculptures, but to also consider how we look at ourselves and others in our lives and society. more ›

We caught up with Bettina Korek, founder of ForYourArt this week to discuss the current state of the L.A. scene and what we have to look forward to this fall. more ›

Two French nationals were detained on Friday on suspicion of vandalism in the vicinity of the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, where a high-profile exhibit on graffiti and street art opened over the weekend. The Los Angeles Police Department believe that one of the suspects detained is the well known street artist "Space Invader," who uses mosaic tiles as his medium, according to LA Now. more ›

An outbreak of tagging done recently at Metro's Little Tokyo Gold Line station appears to be linked to a graffiti exhibit running across the street at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. All of the tags were immediately painted over by Metro employees, according to LA Now. The Los Angeles Police Department say they have also been alerted about dozens of other tags that have shown up in the vicinity. more ›

The Levi's Film Workshop is on location this summer at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in downtown Los Angeles. Starting this past Sunday, filmmakers have access to screenings, equipment rentals, and state of the art editing equipment through the workshop. The screenings include the world premiere of Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams, a 3D documentary focused on cave paintings in the South of France; it premieres next Saturday at the Natural History Museum downtown. more ›

Los Angeles isn't exactly lacking when it comes to premiere art venues, a thriving gallery scene, and arts-oriented communities. But according to a recent Top 100 list published by Art Newspaper, only two our museums rank among those around the globe for attendance. more ›

Pirouette or plié to MOCA Pacific Design Center tonight (March 4) for the public opening of "Rodarte: States of Matter." Featuring garments from three of Rodarte's twelve runway collections, the exhibition also presents six tutus from the film Black Swan. Rodarte designed the black and white ballet costumes worn in the film. more ›

MOCA Senior curator Alma Ruiz narrates this video that takes viewers on a tour of "Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space," a new exhibit that "presents Latin America as the source of new ideas about the nature and function of art through the re-creation of important large scale installations by five highly regarded and influential artists: Carlos Cruz Diez, Lucio Fontana, Julio Le Parc, Hélio Oiticica and Neville D'Almeida, and Jesús Rafael Soto." more ›

As prep for the just-announced Art in the Streets show that will open in April 2011, MOCA commissioned a mural at Geffen Contemporary by Italian artist Blu and then promptly painted over it yesterday, according to LA Downtown News. more ›

Art Basel Miami’s end is just around the corner, but the impact it created was heard all around the world, literally. Also, the Los Angeles art community publicized the anticipated Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945 - 1980 with a panel at The Rubell Family Collection along with Los Angeles based artist John Baldessari. more ›