Sentences with phrase «moca gala»

Last month the museum was embarrassed by the mishandling of plans for the 2018 MOCA gala honoring one of its artist board members, Mark Grotjahn.

The first official MOCA gala was in 2001, but the honoring of individual artists didn't begin as an annual practice until 2015, with Baldessari.

Artists have always had a prominent presence at the MOCA gala, the museum's biggest fundraising event.

Though a bit kitsch, the scenography appeared infinitely more subdued than, say, the expressionless, rotating heads of the performers used as centerpieces during Marina Abramović's turn as impresario at a rather different MoCA gala in 2011, under the rather different stewardship of Jeffrey Deitch.

The fashion pair showed up at Dasha Zhukova's table in the big tent set up on Grand Avenue for the MoCA gala, where B - list starlets paraded the red carpet in what Barbara Kruger memorably observed as «the anthropology of procession,» outfitted by the event's sponsor, Chanel Fine Jewelry, while Deitch led another exclusive tour of the show inside the museum with Francesco Vezzoli (last year's gala artist) in tow as well as Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale, Anthony Kiedis, producer Brian Grazer, W editor Stefano Tonchi, and Deitch's date, actress Paz de la Huerta.

Honorees for MOCA GALA 2012 are two of Atlanta's most well - known and well - loved art supporters, Carolyn and Gudmund Vigtel.

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA) announces its annual MOCA GALA Art Auction 2012 on Saturday, April 21, 2012 from 5:30 p.m. — 9:30 p.m. at its exhibition galleries on Bennett Street.

Yvonne Rainer writes to MOCA condemning Abromavic's planned performance in which underpaid actors are objects of titillation and humiliation for wealthy gala goers Dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer has written a letter to LA's MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch condemning the planned performance of artist Maria Abramovic at this year's MOCA gala.

His Beverly Hills mansion has been the site of many gatherings, from sedate catered receptions for the Hammer Museum, to spontaneous afterparties following MOCA galas to wild bashes at which the crowds swell into the hundreds.

Not exact matches

Katy Perry wears a Versace Collection dress with Edie Parker Lara clutch and Christian Louboutin shoes to the MOCA 35th anniversary gala celebration

Despite curator Helen Molesworth's instrumental involvement in the triumphal Kerry James Marshall show that opened at MOCA last week and other recent shows by Kahlil Joseph, Mickalene Thomas and Noah Davis» Underground Museum, MOCA's recent announcement that this year's annual gala will celebrate Jeff Koons (a museum benefactor) strikes a bum note.

This list is a distillation of MOCA director Philippe Vergne's enthusiastic tribute speech at Saturday night's edition of the museum's annual fundraising gala, this time with Baldessari as its guest of honor.

That's the question swirling in the art - world air following his surprise firing of MOCA's chief curator one month ago, the sudden cancellation of the museum's annual gala fundraiser and, perhaps most important, the pending expiration of Vergne's contract.

The cancellation translates to a loss of millions of dollars; the 2017 gala, honoring Jeff Koons, raised more than $ 3 million for MOCA.

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In the last few weeks alone, the artist has been honored by MOCA at its annual gala in Los Angeles, opened a major show of his work at the Beverly Hills Gagosian Gallery, and launched a glitzy collaboration with Louis Vuitton, the Masters collection.

Was moca's board, recently beefed up with the addition of Hollywood superagent Ari Emanuel and Wall Street hedge - fund giant Steven Cohen, really behind him 100 percent, as its co-chair Maria Arena Bell, who was at the gala, told everyone?

This year, artist board member Mark Grotjahn declined to be MOCA's gala honoree, citing concerns about a lack of diversity among past honorees — all straight white men.

But when I was invited to an early view of Art LA's installation last Wednesday — twenty - eight hours prior to the third edition of the fair's opening gala (benefiting MoCA)-- my instinct was to delay gratification.

The gala, attended by more than 750 guests, raised $ 2.5 million for the museum, and began at MOCA Grand Avenue with red carpet arrivals of Hollywood celebrities including Pamela Anderson, Ellen Barkin, Minnie Driver, Kirsten Dunst, Lisa Edelstein, Will Ferrell, Miranda July, Jaime King, Jonny Lee Miller, Rose McGowan, Nicole Richie, Gwen Stefani, Tilda Swinton, and Dita Von Teese; California Governor Jerry Brown and Los Angeles Mayor and MOCA Ex Officio Trustee Antonio Villaraigosa; art world luminaries from Los Angeles, New York and beyond; fashion icons; and renowned Los Angeles artists including Doug Aitken, John Baldessari, Mark Bradford, Shepard Fairey, and Ed Ruscha.

Like most museums, MOCA stages the gala as its biggest fundraiser of the year.