Charms: These are talisman of fun. Playful leather charms to be individually collected and carried on the handles of your handbags or the straps of your totes. Designed and Made in Los Angeles in limited editions.

WELCOMECOMPANIONS, designed by WELCOMEPROJECTS, reinterprets everyday sartorial accessories and objects. The project seeks to inject a sense of play, suspense, and narrative into the objects we interact with and depend on on a daily basis.
WELCOMEPROJECTS is directed by Laurel Consuelo Broughton. Laurel is a designer and educator who explores her interests in narrative, material culture, and style within architecture, design, and fashion through projects, publications, and collaborations at a multiplicity of scales. The object as form and cultural figure features broadly throughout all her work. She received her Bachelor of Arts from New York University (NYU) in Comparative Literature and Critical Theory and her Masters of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI_arc).

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Artist, choreographer, and dancer, Simone Forti is a pivotal figure in both postmodern dance and minimalist art. Through such works as the celebrated Dance Constructions, which incorporated minimalist objects made of plywood and ropes, she has created radically new ways of looking at dance, approaches that continue to be influential today. This book documents nearly two hundred of Forti’s works, using more than five hundred color images that represent the incredible diversity of her output. Showcasing her work across holograms, drawings, sound, video, and live performance, the book documents her incredible career and makes a case for the unprecedented nature of her achievement. Published by Hirmer, 2013 Hardcover 304 pages 11 x 9 ½ s 1 ¼ inches (27.94 x 24.13 x 3.18 cm)

Simone Forti Thinking With The Body

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Essays from David Ullen & Kevin Starr
From the first known photograph taken in Los Angeles to its most recent sweeping vistas, this photographic tribute to the City of Angels provides a fascinating journey through the city’s cultural, political, industrial, and sociological history. It traces the city’s development from the 1880s real estate boom, through the early days of Hollywood and the urban sprawl of the late 20th century, right up to the present day. With over 500 images, L.A. is shown emerging from a desert wasteland to become a vast palm-studded urban metropolis.
Events that made world news―including two Olympics, Bobby Kennedy’s assassination, and the Rodney King riots―reveal a city of many dimensions. The entertainment capital of the world, Hollywood, and its celebrities are showcased along with many other notable residents, personalities, architects, artists, and musicians. The city’s pop cultural movements, its music, surfing, health food fads, gangs, and hot rods are included, as are its notorious crimes and criminals. This book depicts Los Angeles in all its glory and grit, via hundreds of freshly discovered images including those of Julius Shulman, Garry Winogrand, William Claxton and many other superb photographers, culled from major historical archives, museums, private collectors, and universities.

Los Angeles Portrait Of A City

Deana Lawson is one of the most compelling photographers of her generation. Over the last ten years, she has created a visionary language to describe identities through intimate portraiture and striking accounts of ceremonies and rituals. Using medium- and large-format cameras, Lawson works with models she meets in the United States and on travels in the Caribbean and Africa to construct arresting, highly structured, and deliberately theatrical scenes animated by an exquisite range of color and attention to surprising details: bedding and furniture in domestic interiors or lush plants in Edenic gardens. The body—often nude—is central. Throughout her work, which invites comparison to the photography of Diane Arbus, Jeff Wall, and Carrie Mae Weems, Lawson seeks to portray the personal and the powerful. Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph features forty beautifully reproduced photographs, an essay by the acclaimed writer Zadie Smith, and an expansive conversation with the artist Arthur Jafa.
Clothbound 11 5/8 x 13 3/4 inches (29.7 x 35 cm) 104 pages Published by Aperture First Edition

Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph

Written by Carter Higgins Illustrated by Lucy Ruth Cummins
This book is not a valentine. It doesn't have lacey edges or sugary hearts. But it is full of lucky rocks, secret hiding spots, and gumball machine treasures. This is a book about waiting in line and wishing for cinnamon buns. About recognizing that if you care so much about someone not thinking you care, maybe you really do. But wait—isn't that exactly what love is about? Maybe this book is sort of a valentine after all. A testament to handmade, wacky, bashful, honest love—sure to win over the hearts of all readers—this offering from debut picture book author Carter Higgins and children's book veteran Lucy Ruth Cummins is the perfect gift to celebrate every relationship, from parent to child, sibling to sibling, partner to partner, crush to crush.
Published by Chronicle Books, 2017 Hardcover, 48 pages Dimensions 8 x 8 inches (20.32 x 20.32 cm) Ages 4-8 years

This Is Not A Valentine

Baby & Kids

A rich trove of contemporary global Jewish cuisine, featuring hundreds of stories and recipes for home cooks everywhere
The Jewish Cookbook is an inspiring celebration of the diversity and breadth of this venerable culinary tradition. A true fusion cuisine, Jewish food evolves constantly to reflect the changing geographies and ingredients of its cooks. Featuring more than 400 home-cooking recipes for everyday and holiday foods from the Middle East to the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa - as well as contemporary interpretations by renowned chefs including Yotam Ottolenghi, Michael Solomonov, and Alex Raij - this definitive compendium of Jewish cuisine introduces readers to recipes and culinary traditions from Jewish communities the world over, and is perfect for anyone looking to add international tastes to their table.

Hardback, 10 5/8 x 7 1/8 inches (27 x 18 cm) 432 pages, 93 illustrations Published by Phaidon

The Jewish Cookbook

By Henry Carroll & Rose Blake
20 fun challenges to make you a SUPER-AWESOME artist! Be inspired by world famous artists and create your own masterpieces. Hone your skills with tips on art materials, techniques and color. Published by Laurence King Publishing, 2020
Hardcover, 64 pages Dimensions: 7.87 x .55 x 8.6 inches Grade level 2-3 grade Reading level 7-9 years

Be A Super Awesome Artist

By Yve-Alain BoisInformed by both structuralism and poststructuralism, these essays by art critic and historian Yve Alain Bois seek to redefine the status of theory in modernist critical discourse. Warning against the uncritical adoption of theoretical fashions and equally against the a priori rejection of all theory, Bois argues that theory is best employed in response to the specific demands of a critical problem. The essays lucidly demonstrate the uses of various theoretical approaches in conjunction with close reading of both paintings and texts.
Published by October Books (1993) Binding: Softcover Dimensions: 7 x 9 inches, 358 pages

Painting As Model

Habitat is the first in the Blockitecture® series, designed by James Paulius for Metaproject, an industry projects class produced by the Rochester Institute of Technology in partnership with Areaware. The forms were inspired by Habitat 67, a housing complex and pavilion designed by Moshe Safdie for the 1967 World's Fair in Montreal, Canada.
New Zealand Pine Recommended for ages 6 and up

Blockitecture Habitat

Essays by Ernest Hardy, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Philippe Vergne & Malik Gaines
This book gathers for the first time an extensive selection of American artist―or “builder and demolisher,” as he describes himself―Mark Bradford's gorgeous, searing and heavily textured “merchant posters.” The original printed posters, collected by Bradford from around his Central Los Angeles neighborhood, are brightly colored local advertisements that target the area's vulnerable lower-income residents. For Bradford, they serve as both the formal and conceptual underpinnings of his works on paper, décollages/collages that engage with the pressures of the cityscape. “The sheer density of advertising creates a psychic mass, an overlay that can sometimes be very tense or aggressive,” he notes; “If there's a 20-foot wall with one advertisement for a movie about war, then you have the repetition of the same image over and over―war, violence, explosions, things being blown apart. As a citizen, you have to participate in that every day. You have to walk by until it's changed.” Eagerly anticipated, this is the first large-scale publication by a major publisher about the work of this important and increasingly influential artist. Artist and writer Malik Gaines considers Bradford's play with signs in relation to literary and performative theories of African-American forms; writer and cultural critic Ernest Hardy addresses social issues, in Los Angeles and more broadly, raised by Bradford's source material; Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson examines the language in the work as it relates to Concrete poetry; and Dia Art Foundation Director Philippe Vergne looks at the surface of the work and Bradford's processes of mining and excavation.
Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co, 2010 Hardcover, 160 pages Illustrated throughout Dimensions: 9 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches ( 23.49 x 28.57 cm)

Mark Bradford Merchant Posters

By Christina Weyl
A timely reexamination of the experimental New York print studio Atelier 17, focusing on the women whose work defied gender norms through novel aesthetic forms and techniques In this important book Christina Weyl takes us into the experimental New York print studio Atelier 17 and highlights the women whose work there advanced both modernism and feminism in the 1940s and 1950s. Weyl focuses on eight artists—Louise Bourgeois, Minna Citron, Worden Day, Dorothy Dehner, Sue Fuller, Alice Trumbull Mason, Louise Nevelson, and Anne Ryan—who bent the technical rules of printmaking and blazed new aesthetic terrain with their etchings, engravings, and woodcuts. She reveals how Atelier 17 operated as an uncommonly egalitarian laboratory for revolutionizing print technique, style, and scale. It facilitated women artists’ engagement with modernist styles, providing a forum for extraordinary achievements that shaped postwar sculpture, fiber art, neo-Dadaism, and the Pattern and Decoration movement. Atelier 17 fostered solidarity among women pursuing modernist forms of expression, providing inspiration for feminist collective action in the 1960s and 1970s. The Women of Atelier 17 also identifies for the first time nearly 100 women, many previously unknown, who worked at the studio, and provides incisive illustrated biographies of selected artists.
Published by Yale University Press, 2019 Hardcover, 296 pages with illustrations throughout Dimensions: 10 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches (26.03 x 20.95 cm)

The Women Of Atelier 17: Modernist Printmaking In Midcentury New York

A spectacular and unprecedented visual biography of the leading pioneers and protagonists of modern art and design Josef – painter, designer, and teacher – and Anni Albers – textile artist and printmaker – are among the twentieth century's most important abstract artists, and this is the first monograph to celebrate the rich creative output and beguiling relationship of these two masters in one elegant volume. It presents their life and work as never before, from their formative years at the Bauhaus in Germany to their remarkable influence at Black Mountain College in the United States through their intensely productive period in Connecticut. Published by Phaidon, 2020 Hardcover 512 pages 750 illustrations 12 x 9 3/8 in (30.5 x 23.8 cm)

Anni & Josef Albers Equal And Unequal

Made exclusively for MOCA by LA based designer Jujumade.
English porcelain with white and yellow gold glaze. 14K Gold Stud.
Sold by the pair.

Jujumade X Moca Double Moon Studs

Earrings: Studs

by Terry Pierce with illustrations by Suzy Ultman Love Can Come in Many Ways celebrates the many diverse ways animals, and humans, show their love. Lift a swan's felt wing to discover a baby cuddled underneath, then lift a felt speech bubble to discover the words "You are loved!" Beneath each of the felt flaps is a wealth of snuggles. Published by Chronicle Books, 2020 Hardcover 18 pages Baby – 3 years 7 x 6 inches (17.78 x 15.24 cm)

Love Can Come In Many Ways

MOCA Store is lucky to carry the limited run of t-shirts featuring a collage by Collier Schorr, made exclusively for Aperture magazine. "Celebrated in the worlds of art and fashion, Collier Schorr has pushed photography to examine desire, sexuality, and beauty. From her work with teenage wrestlers, to her provocative advertising campaigns, to her exploration of the artist-muse relationship, she has exposed the fluidity and ambiguity of gender. In her images, boys appear girlish, and vice versa. Now sought after for her signature command of the gaze, Schorr's interrogation of identity has board reach—and great influence—in the pages of fashion magazines. In Aperture magazine #228: "Elements of Style," she speaks about the evolving language of the fashion image and how her work challenges convention. Is the world finally ready for Collier's women?" - Matthew Higgs, from Aperture #228: "Elements of Style."
Unisex sizing 100% combed ring-spun cotton Made in the USA and printed in NYC

Collier Schorr For Aperture Magazine T-shirt

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Encourage a little sparkle from birth. Leather baby booties with laser etched star pattern and elastic closure size 4-8 months Designed and made in San Francisco by Molly M Designs

Metallic Leather Baby Booties

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By Susanne Gaensheimer and Kathrin Beßen With contributions Cao Fei, Klaus Biesenbach, Lauren Cornell and Philip Tinari
The Beijing artist Cao Fei creates works that lie on the threshold between reality and fiction, reflecting the urban realities and societal moods of China. In her works, which vary between the aesthetics of documentary, film, and virtual reality, Cao Fei explores the nation’s ongoing transformations by drawing on her personal life and surroundings in Beijing. As an artist, she addresses questions that are universal to urban dwellers: Where is the development in big cities leading? What is the individual’s place within a rapidly changing urban society? Is it possible to be a critical observer of gentrification processes and at the same time be a part of the problem? The videos, photographs, drawings, and multimedia installations assembled in this stunning volume capture the entire oeuvre of this internationally acclaimed artist, and embark at the same time on a critical study of gentrification and urban living.
Published by Hirmer Publishers, 2019 Bilingual edition Paperback, 192 pages, illustrated throughout Dimensions:  9  1/2 x 8 inches (24.13 x 20.32 cm)

Cao Fei

Text by Heather Pesanti, Julia V. Hendrickson, Adrienne Edwards, Bennett Simpson, Cherise Smith
Blending the personal with the political, Los Angeles–based artist Rodney McMillian (born 1969) has worked in a range of mediums and materials, including sculpture, painting, video, performance and immersive environments, to explore themes of class, gender, race, social history and culture. His work frequently incorporates “post-consumer” and found objects as well as techniques of interactivity and performativity.
This volume surveys McMillian’s performance-based work to date and documents the artist’s new site-specific project for The Contemporary Austin. McMillian, inaugural recipient of the Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize, has been invited to work in The Contemporary Austin’s downtown site, the Jones Center on Congress Avenue, taking over the entire space physically and psychologically inverting viewer assumptions with entire floors transformed into immersive spaces of sound, video and color.
Published by Radius Books, 2018 Hardcover , 372 pages with 280 color Dimensions: 10 3/4 x 9 inches (27.30 x 22.86 cm)

Rodney Mcmillian History Is Present Tense

By Stephanie Demasse-Pottier and Illustrated by Seng Soun Ratanavanh
A young girl imagines a lovely island populated by thousands of birds, where she picnics with her animals, plays games, reads, and collects flowers. You too are welcome on this island, if you know how to dream. Gorgeous, colorful illustrations accompany this gentle yet impactful story that celebrates the imagination of young readers.
Published by Princeton Architectural Press, 2019 Hardcover with 32 pages Dimensions: 101/4 x 10 1/4 inches (26.03 x 26.03 cm) Reading lever is 3-5 years old

My Island

Sweet, unique and eco-friendly, just like you! These card + coin cases are made from the remainders of the beautiful leathers used by Japanese brand Carmine. Each wallet has two different sides - no two are alike! 100% leather Zip closure 3 x 4 1/2 inches (7.62 x 11.43 cm)

Eco Card + Coin Case By Carmine

Designed by Karl Zahn, this crocodile pile is designed to test your nesting and stacking skills. With 10 mini multi-colored crocs, see how many you can pile on one another using their mouths and the notches on their backs.
Material: Beech Wood

Mini Multi-colored Croc Pile

By Thomas Houseago with contributions from Rudi Fuchs and Lisa Le Feuvre
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Thomas Houseago: What Went Down" at the Modern Art Oxford and Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. This exhibition is the first major UK museum exhibition of the artists work and spans 15 years of work.  Thomas Houseagos' work is represented in the collection of MOCA.  The cover was printed in three different colors and is printed on linen.  We have a pink cover available to sell.
Published by Modern Art Oxford and Lund Humphries, 2011 Dimensions 9 3/5 x 13 1/2 inches 240 pages and fully illustrated This catalogue is out of print

Thomas Houseago: What Went Down Exhibition Catalogue

Created by Art Life Practice, this at-home embroidery kit encourages creative exploration of the art form of embroidery. Follow a pattern or create something completely unique, add sequins, beads, or anything you're inspired by.
What’s in the kit:

Two embroidery hoops (8” and 4”)
One cotton/linen bandana
Six muslin pieces (assorted unbleached and bleached)
Twelve clothespins with assorted colored floss
Two embroidery needles
Needle threader
Water soluble marker
Embroidery scissors
Sequins and beads to zhush up your work
Signature ALP Patterns to trace on your work (including hearts and Valentine’s Day imagery, as well as a fruit and ART Palette)
Signature ALP ZINE with information on two contemporary embroidery artists, as well as a step-by-step how-to intro to embroidery (and access to how-to video online)

Art Life Practice: Diy Embroidery Kit

Discover a coloring completely tribal with a pattern of symbols, stars and totems! Introducing for the first time, a pre-colored illustration with neon colors. To be used on the floor, on a wall or as a tablecloth.
Dimensions: 39 1/4 x 27 1/2 inches (100 x 70 cm) Comes folded up Paper is recycled and made in France

Giant Neon Poster Symbols

Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I-XVIII, on view from October 21, 2012 to January 7, 2013.

Taryn Simon continues to work on the borderline between fine art and documentary photography. Frequently relying on text to avoid any ambiguities in content, she applies methods of advertising photography to journalism, creating carefully staged and manipulated tableaux that gain their force from the friction between their visual perfection and the unsettling subject matter.
Mono.Kultur is a Berlin based interview magazine from Berlin that deals with art and culture.  Each issue features one artist.  Mono.Kultur 15 features the work of Taryn Simon.  Included in this issue is a reprint of Mono.Editionen #03 which is 10 Plates from A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, which also includes an eight page addendum.

Publisher: Mono.Kulture
Softcover, enclosed in glassine envelope/ 8" x 6"/ 32 pages, 8 page addendum, 10 color plates
This publication is out of print

Taryn Simon: Kaleidoscope Of Entropy (mono.kultur #15)

Caddis is an eyewear company started in 2017.  These reading glasses are ageless, and are for anyone who is looking for a cool frame that is stylish, comfortable and solidly made.

- Optical grade CR39 lens 
- Superior hard coat for anti scratch durability 
- Anti-reflective coatings to mitigate reflections and glare. 
- Super hydro-phobic and oleo-phobic coatings for anti smudge 
- HEV coating blocks harmful high energy light screens emit. 
- Handcrafted acetate designs utilizing state of the art CNC and finishing for fit, function, and durability. Sizing Lens Width: 56 mm Lens Height: 45 mm Bridge: 15 mm Temple Length: 145

Mabuhay  Reading Glasses

Andy Warhol, Flowers 1964
MOCA Masks (#MOCAmasks) are a collection of limited-production, artist-designed face masks. Each purchase directly supports The Museum of Contemporary Art.
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This mask shape fits a wide range of kids faces comfortably.
Our masks are designed for comfort and ease of wear without sacrificing on safety. Made with two layers of fabric, featuring a pocket on the inside with open sides, customers can insert their own filter for extra protection.
As the preeminent American artist of the 20th century, Andy Warhol challenged the world to see art differently. Since its founding in 1987, in accordance with Warhol’s will, The Andy Warhol Foundation has established itself among the leading funders of contemporary art in the United States. The Foundation has distributed over $200,000,000 in cash grants which support the contemporary visual arts, particularly work that is experimental, under-recognized or challenging in nature. Proceeds the Foundation receives from licensing projects such as this contribute to the Foundation’s endowment from which these grants are distributed. For more information visit warholfoundation.org .
- Silkscreen on 100% cotton with 100% cotton lining.
- Cotton thread.
- Non-medical grade face mask, not intended for clinical use.
- Reusable.
- Elastic ear loops.
- Wash before first use and after every wear. Hand wash with detergent and line dry, do not bleach.
- Our masks are handmade by Citizens of Humanity in Los Angeles, CA.

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Kids Moca Mask: Andy Warhol "flowers"

Edited with text by Emily Liebert. Foreword by Deborah Cullen. Text by Huey Copeland, Malik Gaines, Alexandro Segade, Henry Sayre. Interview by Emily Liebert.
From 1972 to 1991, Eleanor Antin (born 1935) created multiple personae of different genders, races, professions, historical contexts and geographic locations. The artist called this motley group--which includes a deposed king, an exiled film director, ambitious ballerinas and hard-working nurses--her "selves." The selves’ manifestations were as diverse as their stories: some were embodied by Antin and captured in photographs and on video; others had paper doll surrogates; at times their existence was known only through the drawings, texts and films they had ostensibly left behind. As she explored the fleeting nature of the self, Antin used fiction, fantasy and theatricality to examine the ways that history takes shape, scrutinizing the role that visual representation plays in that process. Multiple Occupancy: Eleanor Antin’s "Selves" is the first project to focus exclusively on this critical body of work.

Published by The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, 2014
Softcover 128 pages with 59 color and 12 black & white images
Dimensions: 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches (24.76 x 19.05 cm)

Multiple Occupancy: Eleanor Antin's "selves"

A book for one. A book for two. A book for different points of view.
This clever and colorful picture book of opposites will change the way you see things, literally. Turn the book upside down and your perspective alters: Left becomes right; high becomes low; empty becomes full! Great as a rhyming read-aloud, and even better with a friend, this book of two points of view begs to be shared and will immerse book lovers of all ages in a unique reading experience.

Hardcover
48 pages
10 x 9 5/8 inches
Great for ages 3-5 years

I See, I See By R. Henderson

This artist book was created by Laura Owens to document her exhibition, Ten Paintings. The 2016 exhibition was held at the CCA Wattis Institute in San Francisco.

Publisher: Gavin Brown's Enterprise, 2018 Dimensions: 12 x 9 inches Paperback 138 pages Three over-sized bookmarks included Edition of 1500 This catalogue is out of print