ORANGE COUNTY:
Bowers Museum Founded in 1936 by the City of Santa Ana, through
a bequest from Charles and Ada Bowers, this muse- um is considered the largest in Orange County with a permanent collection exceeding 120,000 works of art and objects. Nearly 2,000 paintings reside at the Bowers and
“I shut my eyes in
order to see.” -Paul Gauguin
Wilshire Boulevard; the Ahmanson Building housing its permanent collection, the Hammer Building for special exhibitions and the 600-seat Bing Theater for public programs. Expansion has definitely been the game here with the Anderson Building (renamed the Art of the Americas building in 2007) opening in 1986 to house modern and contemporary art. Followed next in 1988 by Bruce Goff’s innovative biomorphic Pavilion for Japanese Art, opened at the east end of campus. The museum acquired LACMA West, in the form of the modernist May Company department store building In 1994. Most recent additions include the Broad Contemporary Art Museum, a 60,000 square foot space for the exhibition of postwar art, the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion, which provides the largest purpose-built, naturally lit, open-plan museum space in the world, for hous- ing major rotating exhibitions. LACMA is located at 5905 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, for tickets and more information call 323.857.6000 or go to
lacma.org.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Everything is bigger in Los Angeles. This includes
The Museum of Contemporary Art, located in Down- town L.A, or as it’s otherwise known MOCA. Founded in 1979, MOCA is the only museum in Los Angeles devoted exclusively to contemporary art and is considered by most to be the largest and most ency- clopedic art museum in the western United States. Their mission statement;
“to be the defining
museum of contemporary art, MOCA engages artists and audiences through an ambitious program of exhibitions, collection, education and publication.
MOCA identifies and supports the most significant and challenging art of its time, places it in historical context and links the range of the visual arts to con- temporary culture. MOCA provides leadership by actively fostering and presenting new work, emerging media, and original scholarship. With a collection over numbering over 6,800, this museum has one of the world’s most renowned permanent contemporary collections and is housed in three unique facilities: MOCA Grand Avenue, 250 South Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 152 North Central Avenue in Little Tokyo and MOCA Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood. For tickets and more information call 213.626.6222 or go to
moca.org.
consist mostly of works painted between the late 19th through the 20th century. The museum’s largest department is Native American Art comprising more than 24,000 objects, strongest in the cultures of the West and Southwest but also representing native cultures from across the U.S., from Pre-Historic to contemporary. Over 4,000 pieces of Pre-Columbian Art, of which is primarily pottery, textile, stone and metal pieces, strongest in sculpture from the ancient cultures of Western Mexico—but also includes Mayan artwork as well as objects from Pre-Columbian Peru. Asian Art, of which consists over 6,000 pieces, is primarily of Japanese and Chinese derivation ranging in date from Neolithic to 20th century. The Art of The Pacific collection includes basketry, pottery, feather work, weapons, wooden sculpture, food bowls and utensils, jewelry and costume from many of the Pacific Islands including Papua New Guinea, Irian Jaya, Mela- nesia, Polynesia and Australia. The Decorative-Arts Collection includes more than 12,000 objects such as historic costumes, military uniforms and textiles, furniture, dolls and toys, tools and housewares. Also amongst the original compendium of the Bowers is the Orange County History Collection, nearly 30,000 objects including historic newspapers, magazines and other publications, photographs and art and
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