Mid-Century MOCA
"The Expanding Field" with Jasper Johns' Map , 1962, and Andy Warhol's Telephone , 1961 "Why can't MOCA show its best pieces?" If you've ever asked that, MOCA is presenting a greatest-hits survey of its permanent collection. It's a two-parter, with "The Expanding Field: MOCA's Collection from the 1940s to 1970s" now on view at Grand Avenue (through Sep. 20, 2026.) It is to be followed by an installation of more recent art at MOCA Geffen. "The Expanding Field" fills seven rooms with works made prior to MOCA's founding in 1979. The arrangement is mostly chronological, ranging from Mondrian to Pattern & Decoration. It starts with a bang, eight Rothkos in an Isozaki chapel. This is followed by Arshile Gorky's Betrothal I; L.A.'s best Jackson Pollock drip painting; a gray Jasper Johns Map ; a selection of Robert Rauschenberg combines; an Andy Warhol Telephone . Rothkos in "The Expanding Field" The ...
