Mickey Osterreicher tweets out this pic with “If one more person takes my picture I may Scream! At the #MoMA” (via @nppalawyer)
Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” has long been phenomena to large to be confined to the walls of a museum. The iconic work is a pop culture meme, and one unlike any other visual art meme in that it is instantly recognizable and universal, and you can understand why as the timeless expression represents the absurdity and anxiety of the modern world.
Now, with one version of Munch’s renowned series on display at MoMA, New Yorkers and tourists are mimicking the bald figure’s extreme expression much the way touriststoOslohavelongbeendoing — though some aren’t verysuccessful at it. Some people may think it’s tacky, I think it’s a scream.
Edvard Munch: The Screamis on view at the Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Midtown, Manhattan) through April 29, 2013.
Increased oil tanker truck traffic would “seriously degrade” the experience of viewing the canyon’s Indigenous rock art, said one advocate of the site.
Join the New-York Historical Society on February 10 for a virtual conversation about our changing relationship to the natural world with Julie Decker, John Grade, and LaMont Hamilton.
Presented by Northwestern’s Block Museum and McCormick School of Engineering, this new exhibition seeks empathy at the boundaries of life. On view in Evanston, Illinois.