Enjoyed a drive through downtown seemingly empty of people, past the Walt Disney theatre to MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art. A smallish museum compared to LA County, with a fantastic selection of key works of the last 50 years, stunning Rothko, Pollocks and a series of Rauschenbergs. One of the highlights was the Lynda Benglis show, incredible use of media, some rarely seen luminous works and some wax works. Auckland Art Gallery has two of these in its collection.
Definitley a highlight.
From there we spent the afternoon at LACMA, taking in the Broad Museum, and pretty much most of everything else that is good and great.
A highlight was the Jeff Koons room and the Richard Serra work.
To finish the day off we wandered two blocks down the road passed the 99cent store to 1301PE to catch up with Brian Butler and co to view some soft and beautiful works by Uta Bath to bring the personal touch and domestic focus back to the end of our day.
We were lucky enough to spend some time at LACMA with Holly Myers, LA Times art critic, who introduced us to a quite intense work by Edward Kienholz called Five Car Stud.
Last day in LA tomorrow - should be good!!!
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