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Exhibition at MOCA Grand Avenue features 25 new and recent works by Jennifer Packer Jennifer Packer, Idle Hands, 2021, Oil on canvas, 90 x 84 inches (228.6 x 213.36 cm). Courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, Corvi-Mora, London. LOS ANGELES, CA .- Jennifer Packer: Every Shut Eye Ain’t Sleep, the artist’s West Coast debut, features 25 new and recent works on view at MOCA Grand Avenue through February 21, 2022, with free admission as part of MOCA’s Art for All initiative. In recent years, Packer has received increasing acclaim for her intensely lyrical and emotionally nuanced portraits...

Print The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles confirmed Monday the resignations of two key leaders, a senior curator who quit citing resistance to diversity initiatives and the director of human resources, who left because of a “hostile” work culture. Mia Locks, senior curator and head of new initiatives, resigned in late March after less than two years on the job. In Locks’ March 26 exit email to the staff, read to The Times by a MOCA employee and confirmed by the museum, Locks said she was grateful that the museum had launched its IDEA Initiative — an effort MOCA debuted in f...

MOCA senior staffers quit, citing diversity inertia and 'hostile' work culture Deborah Vankin © (Nick Ut / Associated Press) Two high-level staffers have exited the Museum of Contemporary Art. (Nick Ut / Associated Press) The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles confirmed Monday the resignations of two key leaders, a senior curator who quit citing resistance to diversity initiatives and the director of human resources, who left because of a “hostile” work culture. Mia Locks, senior curator and head of new initiatives, resigned in late March after less than two year...