First off, general admission to MOCA is now free, so there’s no better opportunity to see one of L.A.’s premiere museums. Combine that with a free, timed ticket to The Broad across the street, and that’s a lot of art in a day for very little money — especially if you take the Metro there. Newly opened at MOCA is a show that puts the focus on real people, featuring more than 40 artists whose work across different media uses photorealism to tell a story about the social history of art. Ordinary People includes work by Chuck Close, Amy Sherald (who, if you get up to the Bay Area this holiday season, has a big solo show at SFMOMA), and next gen artists like Vincent Valdez and Christine Tien Wang.
- MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), 250 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles