Gay Art Los Angeles

MOCA, The Museum of Modern Art in downtown Los Angeles celebrates Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years, a retrospective on view until May 3, 2010. The show is the largest ever showing of the museum's world-renowned permanent collection, which numbers nearly 6,000 artworks dating from 1939 to the present day.

Organized by MOCA Chief Curator Paul Schimmel, this retrospective is a comprehensive survey of the past 70 years of contemporary gay art history and redefines the importance of Los Angeles as one of the world's premier centers for modern art. Over 200 different artists are represented and the roster of known GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Trensgender) artists is strong, visible and controversial.