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MOCA Jacksonville was founded in 1924 as the Jacksonville Fine Arts Society, [2] the first organization in the Jacksonville community devoted to the visual arts. In 1948 the museum was incorporated as the Jacksonville Art Museum, and in 1978 it became the first institution in Jacksonville to be accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.
The MOCA Downtown Los Angeles location is home to almost 5,000 artworks created since 1940, including masterpieces by classic contemporary artists, and inspiring new works by emerging and mid-career artists from Southern California and around the world. The MOCA is the only museum in Los Angeles devoted exclusively to contemporary art.
MOCA's permanent collection exhibitions show how, when the museum was founded in the late 1970s, it represented something wholly new: the beginning of L.A. art's full-scale institutionalization.
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It is the home of the Bang on a Can Summer Institute, where composers and performers from around the world come to create new music. The festival, started in 2001, includes concerts in galleries for three weeks during the summer. Starting in 2010, MASS MoCA has become the home for the Solid Sound Music Festival.
MOCA GA was founded to give Georgia artists a place of their own and to protect and archive the state’s history. [1] [2] Established with private funding, MOCA GA began by housing the collections of Atlanta-based CGR Advisors, a real estate advisory company, and Mr Golden's personal collection.
The world's tallest man, as confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records, is Robert Pershing Wadlow, who was born in 1918 in Alton, Ill. Standing at a colossal 8'11.1″ (2.72 m) and weighing in at ...
MOCA itself evolved from a succession of local art associations: the Virginia Beach Art Association (VBAA, 1952-1971), the Virginia Beach Art Center (1971-1989) and the Virginia Contemporary Art Center (1989-2010). MOCA is located just off the Virginia Beach oceanfront.