Articles of ‘Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles’

Art in the Streets

Art in the Streets

Museum of Contemporary Art - Los Angeles
By Tucker Neel
It’s hard to see MOCA’s blockbuster exhibition, “Art In The Streets,” apart from its surrounding controversies. The show’s problems began back in 2010 when MOCA’s new director and “Art In The Streets” chief curator, Jeffery Deitch, had the artist Blu’s mural of dollar bill-draped coffins on the [...]



Martin Kippenberger: The problem-maker

“Behold the good and just! Whom do they hate most?
Him who breaketh up their tables of values,
the breaker, the lawbreaker:
- he, however, is the creator.”
Federic Nietzche. Thus spoke Saratustra.
 
By Janet Batet
Martin Kippenberger is a controversial, uninhibited, eccentric figure with an impressive level of energy and synergy. Creator, project developer and social agitator, his work cannot [...]