OF NOTE
Exhibits & Performances
Los Angeles
Some of the most alluring art shows and museum exhibits happening on each coast
New York
40 FOR LA April 14–September 16, 2019
AROUND TOWN LA Other exhibits of note this season
AD ART SHOW May 1–4, 2019
AROUND TOWN NYC Other exhibits of note this season
Before the Broad, before the Disney Concert Hall, before gentrification, there was MOCA. Come view the 40-year history of the Grand Avenue pioneer with 40 for LA, a landmark exhibition that grants visitors a behind-thescenes look at the trailblazing museum’s remarkable history. What started as an idea during a political fundraising event in 1979 was a reality by 1983, with its official opening. By 1990, the museum had amassed an incomparable contemporary art collection with works from Franz Kline, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and many more. The expansive show pays tribute to its past, showcasing multimedia archival works from the museum’s vault and also gives glimpses into how Japanese architect Arata Isozaki— who won the 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize—constructed the museum, with its striking red sandstone façade and glass pyramid skylights. Limitededition objects as well as pieces from the museum’s expansive permanent collection are also on view at what is still the city’s only museum devoted exclusively to contemporary art. moca.org
The Bauhaus at 100: Modern Legacies Through May 5, 2019 LACMA
MvVo ART, creator of AD ART SHOW, is turning the streets of New York’s most art-centric neighborhoods into a revolutionary digital art show, featuring emerging artists from the advertising world during New York’s arts calendar highlight, Frieze Week, in partnership with NBC Universal. The AD ART SHOW celebrates art created by artists currently working in advertising, or with roots in the advertising, design, and commercial arts industries, as they follow in the footsteps of Warhol, Magritte, Haring, Dali, and many other noted artists who contributed to advertising during their careers. If viewers like what they see, they can view the MvVO ART e-gallery on Artsy, where they will be able to view and purchase the works, a move that founder and CEO of MvVO Art Maria van Vlodrop says is the next step in the ever-changing contemporary art scene. mvvoart.com
Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving Through May 12, 2019 Brooklyn Museum
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CULTURE & TASTE
Matthew Porter: Skyline Vista Through May 11, 2019 M+B Fine Art
Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection Through May 19, 2019 The Hammer Museum Palmyra: Loss and Remembrance Through May 27, 2019 Getty Villa Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop Through August 18, 2019 Annenberg Space for Photography Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963–1983 Through September 1, 2019 The Broad
Jean-Michel Basquiat Through May 15, 2019 The Brant Foundation Lucian Freud: Monumental Through May 24, 2019 Acquavella Galleries Jeff Wall April 30 through June 22, 2019 Gagosian West 21st Street Josh Smith: Emo Jungle April 25 through June 15, 2019 David Zwirner New Order: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century Through June 15, 2019 MOMA