In These Times: Recent Acquisitions is organized in loosely thematic galleries prompted by the museum’s new acquisitions. Groupings focus on people and places of Los Angeles; tendencies in recent abstract painting; a contemporary interest in the aesthetics of the fairy tale, the mythological, and the cartoon; works that dwell in obsessive detail and system; and group portraiture. The exhibition also takes a focused look at the work of Larry Johnson and Liz Larner, both extensively collected by MOCA since the 1980s. With a collection of nearly 8,000 works and between 100 and 150 acquisitions each year, MOCA continually builds new context and connections across works that are either brand new or simply new to the museum.