The MOCA Store is a great stop on the way out of the Grand Avenue building. Gift shop: obligatory, inspiring-or skip it?
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The docents at MOCA are top-notch, and tours come free with the $15 admission charge (the Pacific Design Center location is free, but doesn't offer tours). The Grand Avenue building is angular and vertical, so it can be tough to get around for visitors with mobility impairments, but there are plenty of elevators, and the Geffen is more accessible. The museums themselves have plenty of benches to take a rest and consider the art.
MOCA has three different buildings: the Grand Avenue building in Museum Row, the Geffen Contemporary in nearby Little Tokyo, and a smaller gallery at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood-so it could take all day driving around to see all that MOCA has to offer. The permanent collection is usually more populated, and that's where the kids usually are, so if you're looking to avoid the crowds, it's best to stick to the temporary exhibits. MOCA creates an inclusionary space for a wide audience, but the shows are often intelligent enough to keep the crowds intellectual and demure. Chief curator Helen Molesworth has been crushing it since taking over in 2014, when she began overseeing powerful shows by Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas, and Hito Steyerl. "There isn’t a city in America-not New York, not Chicago, not Houston, not San Francisco-where a more impressive museum collection of contemporary art can be seen," The Los Angeles Times's chief art critic Christopher Knight once said. The 6,000-piece collection contains prime works by Agnes Martin, Nam June Paik, Jackson Pollock, and Mike Kelley. Three museums in one, really, MOCA is a cutting-edge museum with temporary exhibitions by established and emerging artists, and one of the greatest contemporary art collections in the world.
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