This is an independent museum, meaning that it is a for profit museum that we happened upon because we were between finishing up one thing and having a while to wait for our lunch reservation. It had air conditioning and an inviting street appeal, and it wasn't crazy expensive either.
There was a wide range of inspiring modern, contemporary, and street art – MOCO is the amalgamation of Modern and Contemporary. Th Moco exhibits Jean-Michel Basquiat, Banksy (photo below), KAWS, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst (the photo to the left, Yayoi Kusama, Hayden Kays, David LaChapelle, Guillermo Lorca, Takashi Murakami (photo above), Nick Thomm, Andy Warhol, Studio Irma, and some others on an ad hoc basis. These are artists who are not as widely admired and collected as other artists on exhibit in Barcelona, but very thought provoking.
The other thing that struck me later was that there was art by black artists, and that is an under represented minority of artists on display in many museums. One example: in his short life, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a pop icon, cultural figure, graffiti artist, musician, and neo-expressionist painter. He was also an influential African-American artist who rose to success during the 1980s. Basquiat’s paintings are largely responsible for elevating graffiti artists out of the streets and into galleries, and so nice to see some on his work here.
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