Mark Rothko, Installation View, Photo © Brian Forrest.

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA.- The Pacific Design Center presents MOCA’S Mark Rothkos, on view through January 21, 2007. This is the first exhibition devoted solely to MOCA’s monographic holdings of paintings by the great New York School artist Mark Rothko, whose transcendent, luminous color-field paintings made a significant mark on 1950s abstract expressionism in the United States. With eight major paintings, the exhibition features key selections from the museum’s collection representing various stages of Rothko’s career, including paintings from the late 1940s, such as Untitled (14B) (1947; a gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.) and Yellow and Orange (1949 a gift of The Rita and Taft Schreiber Collection—as well as Rothko’s signature 1950s paintings that are marked by rich, vibrant colors, from the museum’s germinal acquisition of masterpieces from The Panza Collection.

This exhibition is organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and curated by MOCA chief curator Paul Schimmel.

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The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood will present New Art as a Universal Language, on view November 17, 2006 through January 14, 2007. This exhibition will present a selected group of young international artists that have a common language for communicating their feelings and beliefs through art using a variety of contemporary media and techniques. The exhibition will present sculpture, installation, video, photography and painting. Curated by Mariavelia Savino.

This panel of curators, artists and gallery owners will discuss "What is New Art?" Exploring diverse views involving a variety of art forms from drawing to installation and from sculpture to performance, the panel will also discuss the "appropriation" and "universality" in contemporary art.