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You Can Now Take Photos at MoMA PS1

The museum has quietly gone and changed its photo policy.

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James Turrell, The Natural, and The Artificial

I have been in the presence of the Grand Canyon four times so far, have been down the lip of the Grand Canyon a couple of miles, have seen it in a variety of seasons — spring, summer, and fall — in a variety of weather conditions — snowfall on the rim and desert heat down below — among a throng and

Interview

What Do Drunk Party Kids Think of MoMA PS1’s Eco Art?

Every summer, PS1’s Warm Up party series brings a couple thousand sweaty bodies into its concrete courtyard — to rub greasily against each other while the world’s foremost underground DJs (some of whom are so old-school and obscure, they amount to unicorn sightings) spin in a booth perched atop the

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Klaus Biesenbach #ArtTalk Recap

On Monday, a sold-out crowd turned out for our inaugural ArtTalk with Klaus Biesenbach. The event could not have been a more auspicious launch for the #ArtTalk series, with which we hope to host edifying speakers engaged with the world of visual culture in unique and provocative ways.

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Major New Multifaceted Exhibition Focuses on Ecology and Environmental Issues

The word "expo" conjures big visions: grand pavilions, ferris wheels, exotic exhibitions, a world's fair. But last Sunday, a different kind of expo opened at MoMA PS1, in Long Island City, Queens — Expo 1: New York, the latest curatorial effort of the institution's director, Klaus Biesenbach. It's n

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MoMA PS1 Holds (Very) Open Call for Ideas on the Future of the Rockaways

Sequestered by the sea and the A train still out until at least June, the Rockaways and the continued rebuilding there from the devastation of Hurricane Sandy can be easy to overlook. MoMA PS1 along with MoMA's Department of Architecture and Design are holding a call for ideas for what could be a mo

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Graphic Design as Political Practice: A Conversation With Metahaven [Part 2]

Metahaven is a graphic design studio based in Amsterdam that uses their work with identity and branding to engage political and social phenomena. The first part of our interview ran yesterday.

Interview

Graphic Design as Political Practice: A Conversation With Metahaven [Part 1]

Metahaven is an Amsterdam-based design studio made up of its two members and founders, Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden. Yet to describe them simply as a design studio seems misleading. The pair uses graphic design, identity branding, and product development as weapons, harnessing the power of t

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Gauging the Hollowness of Computer Graphics Through Video and Poetry

To pin meanings onto British artist Ed Atkins's semi-narrative video works is a difficult assignment. Throughout the two pieces currently on display at MoMA PS1, which are composed of high-definition, three-dimensional renderings of human figures and faces set onto flat compositions of color and dig

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MoMA PS1's Awesome New Wall of Skateboard Waste and Water

MoMA PS1 and the MoMA mothership have announced today that CODA, an experimental architectural firm based in Ithaca, NY, was selected as the winner of the 2013 Young Architects Program at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens. The winning project, appropriately called "Party Wall," is comprised of a

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Seeing Performance the Marina Abramović Way

“Your mind is not here,” she explains. Standing in the center of the room clad in a floor-length black dress, she is a sharp contrast to the stark white walls. The sweeping space feels anything but, packed as it is with onlookers — some seemingly starstruck, others bewildered — sitting closely toget

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MoMA PS1's Klaus Biesenbach Explains Why Rockaway Needs Your Help Now

For the last week, MoMA PS1 director and curator Klaus Biesenbach has been actively tweeting about the devastation in the Rockaways section of Queens, which was hit hard by post-tropical cyclone Sandy. While power returned to most of lower Manhattan late Friday night and 80% of the city's subway sys