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Los Angeles Sights

Museum of Contemporary Art

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  • Address
    • 250 S Grand Ave
  • Website
  • Phone
    • 213-626-6222
  • Price
    • adult/child/student & senior $10/free/5, 5-8pm Thu free
  • Hours
    • 11am-5pm Mon & Fri, 11am-8pm Thu, 11am-6pm Sat & Sun

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Lonely Planet review for Museum of Contemporary Art

Nearby, the Museum of Contemporary Art offers headline-grabbing special exhibits; its permanent collection presents all the art world's heavy hitters from the 1940s to the present. It's in a building by Arata Isozaki; many consider it his masterpiece. Parking is $8, at Walt Disney Concert Hall. There are two other branches of MoCA: the Geffen Contemporary in Little Tokyo and the MoCA Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood.

 

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    ridermike recommends this,

    Ok so you've heard of the MOCA and you want to go, right? Here's what to do, here's what not to do:

    1) Go to the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, which is located at 1st and South Central. It has phenomenal modern art, graffiti exhibits, stuff about LA, tons of excellence. Go on any Thursday, as it is free, or pay $10 to see this and get into the second exhibit (below) to torture yourself.

    2) Avoid, as if it were a stick covered in syphilis, then with tuberculosis, then with hepatitis C, then with HIV, at all costs, the main MOCA building on
    250 South Grand Avenue. I have never seen such garbage pass itself off as "art" in my life as this ever before. I nearly shot myself on the way out to end the pain. $10 for this? You've got to be kidding. You couldn't pay me $10 to experience that again. Seriously, a rectangle with a line on it is something an idiot could produce by accident, not art! Swirly ovals on a chalkboard are what children in grade school produce, not fully-grown mental-disease-free adults!

    3) There is a MOCA Pacific Design Center near Santa Monica and Melrose which I will go to in 2 days' time. I hope it will be like the Geffen Contemporary in awesomeness, and nothing like the main MOCA building.

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