LACMA and MOCA

We love discovering events and sharing them with you. Growing up in LA, I often heard of LACMA {Los Angeles County Museum of Art} and MOCA {Museum of Contemporary Art} but never really took the opportunity to visit my local museums. Honestly, I never felt like any of the exhibitions were really interesting me until now. Recently, Tim Burton’s exhibit at LACMA and MOCA’s Art in the Street displays were my big draw to finally checking out my these hidden gems around town.

LACMA’s Tim Burton exhibition is a life in pictures- a retrospective and window inside Tim Burton’s mind, the director, artist, writer, and eccentric child in all of us.  Over 700 drawings, paintings, photographs, film and video works, storyboards, puppets, concept sketches, costumes, and artwork from unrealized projects are presented in chronological order so that attendees can walk the path of Burton’s career to date. In town from May 29, 2011 until October 31, 2011 and admission is $20.

MOCA’s Art in the Streets is the first major U.S. museum survey of graffiti and street art. The exhibition will trace the development of graffiti and street art from the 1970s to the global movement it has become today, concentrating on key cities such as New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, and Sao Paulo, where a unique visual language or attitude has evolved. The exhibition will feature paintings, mixed media sculptures, and interactive installations by 50 of the most dynamic artists and will emphasize Los Angeles’s role in the evolution of graffiti and street art, with special sections dedicated to seminal local movements such as cholo graffiti and Dogtown skateboard culture. A comprehensive timeline illustrated with artwork, photos, video, and ephemera will provide a historical context for the work. In town from April 17, 2011 until August 8, 2011 and admission is $10.

Post Published on July 11, 2011. More photos of the Art in the Streets could be found on the Skybox FB page.