Los Angeles, CA–April 13, 2022
I went to MOCA (the Museum of Contemporary Art) today; here are pictures taken on the walk over there.
This was a long mural showing the lifetime of the universe. (An ambitious project, to be sure, but nicely done.)
More artwork...
The next picture is art on the side of this building. Apparently the theater is still in business doing shows.
MOCA
The building on Grand Avenue is not particularly large. The artworks are fairly interesting, though.
There was a similar structure behind this, and a narrow corridor that you could walk through.
You could walk into rooms behind these and see some blended colors. They made people put on shoe covers first, though.
Yes, this is a Mark Rothko painting.
This is Painting to Hammer a Nail In by Yoko Ono.
This one, titled Witch House, is creepy, especially if you read the list of materials.
No modern art museum would be complete without some sculpture by Alberto Giacometti.
OK, at first glance, you might think “What kind of crap is this to show two blank canvases?”
But if you look closely, they aren’t blank; there’s a thin purple border that, once you notice it, you can’t take your eyes off it.
More Wall/Street Art
I went from MOCA to Chinatown, figuring I’d see some new and interesting things there. Then I remembered I had already been there in the not-too-distant past, so I turned around and went back to the hotel where I was staying.
In the downtown area, the anti-vaxx crowd had put up a lot of stickers. I have blurred out the QR code and URL, as I don’t see any need to give them any more publicity.
OK, back to better things.
If you notice, on the street above the wall, there’s another of the many homeless encampments that you find all throughout Los Angeles.
This design is the logo for a shopping/residential complex.
I got to this point when I realized I didn’t need to visit Chinatown again, but I might as well take a picture.
I passed by the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, which doesn’t look like what you would expect a cathedral to look like (if you’re thinking of European cathedrals, that is.) Took a couple of pictures here and saw a very modernistic building in the background and went exploring. It’s the Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts.
And finally, back on Temple Street to the hotel where I was staying.
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This truck caught my eye; the slogan is catchy, if not grammatically correct.
More adverts for oat milk.
