With two distinct venuesMOCA Grand Avenue and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCAand Michael Heizer’s seminal artwork Double Negative (1969-70) in the Nevada desert, we engage audiences through an ambitious program of exhibitions, educational programs, and publishing. As someone else said LACMA is a mix of modern and then older pieces but I think there modern collection is pretty good, so it would be my second choice. This is the second attempt LACMA has made to merge with MOCA. Welcome to The Museum of Contemporary Art. Hammer is pretty small and most of the permanent collection there, IIRC, is not modern art, but cant tell you for sure on whatever temporary exhibits they might have right now.

However, the Los Angeles Times, which first reported the story Thursday, said the offer included a pledge of a $100 million fund-raising campaign for the two museums. The source also said that LACMA's interest in MOCA would have no bearing on several of its other expansion plans including one with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to develop a museum in the old May Company building on the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax.Ī spokeswoman for LACMA would not address specifics of the merger offer. Connect with cultures from ancient times to the present. Largest art museum in the West inspires creativity and dialogue. The overture to MOCA reportedly was made a few days later. LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art). Calls to MOCA for comment were not immediately returned.Īn individual with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap that LACMA's board of directors discussed the merger proposal at their Feb. Broad, a billionaire philanthropist and arts patron whom the New Yorker called the Lorenzo de’ Medici of Los Angeles in a profile in 2010, is the museum’s largest funder he paid 30.

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