What are those glowing red cubes outside MOCA? Meet Larry Bell’s latest work

“Bill and Coo at MOCA’s Nest,” a new outdoor installation by Los Angeles artist Larry Bell, was commissioned for the sculpture plaza at MOCA. The Bell piece is the perfect work to mark the museum’s plaza, Biesenbach says, as it references the ‘80s geometry so prominent in MOCA architect Arata Isozaki’s building exterior. “Larry Bell is an artist who’s represented in the collection, who was in the collection when the building was built, and now we circle back and show how beautiful that building is,” he says. “Bill and Coo at MOCA’s Nest” is a continuation of a piece in the 2017 Whitney Biennial, “Pacific Red,” he says.