Opinion: ‘A History for the Future’: MOCA, 40 years on
A unifying force in looking at photographs of Los Angeles in the 1970s is the smog.
When the reader opens the massive new volume “A History for the Future: The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, 1979-2000,” the first photographs, black and white, are of MOCA’s Grand Avenue construction site, workers on its arched rooftop, with smog wafting around them and creeping down the skyscraper canyons of Downtown.
Yes, the Little Tokyo building originally called the Temporary Contemporary, a warehouse reimagined by the fantastic Frank Gehry, a moniker I still use rather than the rich person it’s now named after, had for years been putting on brilliant and groundbreaking shows as the wild artistic, financial, development and civic wrangling described in this essential book took place and ended in the creation of the Arata Isozaki-designed Grand Avenue MOCA.
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