The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (MOCA) is doing it big this summer in it's 3 locations. What follows is an overview of what's going on.

DENNIS HOPPER DOUBLE STANDARD
07.11.10 - 09.26.10

Dennis Hopper Double Standard is the first comprehensive survey exhibition of Dennis Hopper's (b. 1936, Dodge City, Kans.) artistic career to be mounted by a North American museum. Best known for his work in film, Hopper has produced an oeuvre of remarkable breadth that blurs the boundaries between art, film, and popular culture. Curated by Julian Schnabel, whose own work has been inspired by Hopper's fusion of art and film, the exhibition will assemble key selections and bodies of work examining the artist's creative development with a focus on artworks made between 1961 and present day, as many of Hopper's earlier paintings were destroyed in his studio by the 1961 Bel Air fire. The exhibition will be organized in several sections reflecting the cyclical and serial nature of the artist's work. The layout will bring together various groupings of work emphasizing Hopper's interest in Duchampian appropriation of common objects and the dialogue between pop and progressive culture. It will also highlight the ways in which Hopper has utilized a range of styles-from abstraction, the ready-made, and pop art to conceptual and performance art-to further his investigation into the "return to the real." Tracing the evolution of Hopper's artistic output, Dennis Hopper Double Standard will feature more than 200 works spanning his prolific 60-year career in a range of media, including an early painting from 1955; photographs, sculpture, and assemblages from the 1960s; paintings from the 1980s and '90s; graffiti-inspired wall constructions and large-scale billboard paintings from the 2000s; his most recent sculptures; and film installations.

Dennis Hopper Double Standard is presented by The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.

THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY AT MOCA 152 NORTH CENTRAL AVENUE, LOS ANGELES, CA 90013

THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY AT MOCA

A former police car warehouse in Little Tokyo renovated by the noted California architect Frank O. Gehry, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (formerly The Temporary Contemporary) opened in 1983. This location offers 40,000 square feet of exhibition space and a branch of the MOCA Store.

MUSEUM HOURS
MON 11am–5pm
TUES, WED CLOSED
THURS 11am–8pm
FRI 11am–5pm
SAT, SUN 11am–6pm

Closed New Year's Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day.

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ADMISSION
General Admission: $10
Students with I.D.: $5
Seniors (65+): $5
Children under 12: Free
Jurors with I.D.: Free

Free Thursday Evenings

ANY EVER
07.18.10 - 10.17.10

Any Ever is the American premiere of the artist Ryan Trecartin's (b. 1981, Webster, Tex.) 2007-10 body of work, produced in Miami with collaborator Lizzie Fitch and contributors ranging from friends and artists to working child actors. The entire exhibition space will be devoted to the non-sequential series of seven movies, which are structurally conceived as a diptych consisting of a trilogy, Trill-ogy Comp (2009), and a quartet, Re'Search Wait'S (2009-10). The movies are interconnected spatially via networked viewing rooms and an ambient soundscape, and materially by characters, semblances of plot, and formal, recurring motifs. Having emerged from the 2000s as an innovator of ecstatic new frontiers in art and cinema, the influence of Trecartin's practice has grown within the art world and among a broader, intergenerational set of thinkers and cultural consumers. Consistent with his work to date, this latest series mines emergent evolutions of identity, narrative, language, and visual culture for content and propels these matters forward as expressive mediums, through darkly jubilant and categorically frenetic formal experimentations. Any Ever at MOCA is the exhibition's first American presentation on an international tour that began at The Power Plant in Toronto, Canada (March 2010). It will continue to the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL, (2011) before traveling to further international venues. In 2011, Trecartin will also be the subject of solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY, and the Musee d'Art modern de la Ville de Paris, France. Forthcoming print and digital catalogues will be the first publications uniquely dedicated to Trecartin's work and will reflect the entirety of his practice to date.

MUSEUM & STORE HOURS
MON CLOSED
TUES–FRI 11am–5pm
SAT, SUN 11am–6pm

Closed New Year's Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day.

Please note that MOCA Pacific Design Center will closed at 3pm on Sunday, August 8th and be closed to the public Friday, August 27th–Sunday, August 29th.

ADMISSION
Admission to MOCA Pacific Design Center is FREE

GROUP ADMISSION
Prescheduled, accredited school groups receive free admission. Reservations must be made at least 10 business days in advance of visit by calling the Group Reservations line,
213/621-1745.

ARSHILE GORKY: A RETROSPECTIVE
06.06.10 - 09.20.10

Arshile Gorky (b. c.1902, Khorkom, Armenia; d. 1948 Sherman, Conn.) was a seminal figure in the movement toward abstraction that transformed American art in the middle of the 20th century. Born in an Armenian village on the eastern border of Ottoman Turkey, Gorky was a first-hand witness to the Turkish government's Armenian Genocide of 1915, which led the artist's family and thousands of others to flee. In 1920, Gorky emigrated to the United States and eventually settled in New York, where he became a largely self-taught artist. At a time when the American avant-garde privileged originality over traditional working methods, Gorky was a nonconformist who developed his personal vocabulary through a series of intensive apprenticeships to the styles of other artists, including Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, and Joan Miro, before developing his own unique and deeply influential visual language in the early 1940s. Gorky's prominence in the New York art scene led him to befriend Andre Breton and Roberto Matta-fellow emigres and key figures in the surrealist group-who came to have an enormous impact on Gorky's mature style. Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective positions Gorky as a crucial founder of abstract expressionism, but also as a passionate and dedicated artist whose tragic life often informed his groundbreaking and deeply personal paintings. The first full-scale survey of Gorky's work since 1981, this timely exhibition features Gorky's most significant paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, including two masterworks from MOCA's permanent collection - Study for The Liver is the Cock's Comb (1943) and Betrothal I (1947). Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective is organized by Michael Taylor, the Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where the exhibition was on view October 21, 2009, through January 10, 2010, before traveling to Tate Modern, London, February 10 through May 3, 2010. MOCA's presentation, the third on the exhibition's tour, is organized by MOCA Chief Curator Paul Schimmel. Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue that includes new essays by Harry Cooper, Jody Patterson, Robert Storr, and Kim Theriault

Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective is organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Tate Modern, London, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

MOCA GRAND AVENUE 250 SOUTH GRAND AVENUE, LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

MOCA GRAND AVENUE

Designed by Arata Isozaki, MOCA Grand Avenue is host to elegant underground galleries, a café, the flagship location of the MOCA Store, and staff offices.

MUSEUM HOURS
MON 11am–5pm
TUES, WED CLOSED
THURS 11am–8pm
FRI 11am–5pm
SAT, SUN 11am–6pm

Please note that the MOCA Store at MOCA Grand Avenue will be closed for maintenance on Wednesday, August 4.

Closed New Year's Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day.

ADMISSION
General Admission: $10
Students with I.D.: $5
Seniors (65+): $5
Children under 12: Free
Jurors with I.D.: Free

Free Thursday Evenings:
Admission to MOCA Grand Avenue is free every Thursday, 5–8pm, courtesy of Wells Fargo.

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