3/17/2023 0 Comments Moca museum la images bill viola![]() Consider that, and you begin to appreciate why an art museum cannot simply rotate its collection. Both Chicago and Kelly, incidentally, were in MOCA’s 2007 “WACK” feminist exposition, but that show did not depend exclusively on museum holdings. And following that line of thought, you might also wonder why Mary Kelly (“cunt art’s” conceptual nemesis) is not in the show. If you’re looking at Zoe Leonard’s crotch shots from the early ‘90s displayed alongside a couple of Martin Kippenberger’s portraits in a bad boy/bad girl pairing, you might wonder where the “cunt art” produced by Judy Chicago and other feminist art pioneers here in California disappeared to. Some of what’s missing pops in your head when you think about the historical lineage of what’s on display. Everybody I know has a list of these things. To be sure, the collection has gaps, omissions, and redundancies that reveal a combination of curatorial and regional biases and the limitations of the collectors who’ve donated to the collection. More interesting is how the pieces on display relate to others and how they function as cultural symptoms. ![]() Whether such curatorial broad-mindedness can be sustained or whether it will narrow into mere Broad-mindedness now that Eli Broad’s millions are the only ladder out of the financial hole the institution dug for itself was a topic much speculated upon over the past year. The sprawling two-part exhibition of MOCA's permanent collection on view at both MOCA Grand Avenue and The Geffen Contemporary is notable for the diversity of work it incorporates into one show-everything from a Mondrian to a paint turd left by Paul McCarthy. Of course, there are also plenty of omissions, but they don’t take away from the sheer breadth of the material on display. ![]() Edward Ruscha, 'Chocolate Room,' 1970, chocolate on paper, installation, dimensions variable.
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