Art
Marcel Broodthaers's Fraught Relationship with Words
Do words limit our experience of a given artwork?
MoMA
Art
The Father of Streamlining Gets Some Long Overdue Love from MoMA
Raymond Loewy earned the nickname "father of streamlining" for his influential career in industrial design, shaping sleek icons of 20th-century America such as the Lucky Strike cigarette packet and the Art Deco shell of the PRR S1 steam locomotive.
Art
The Otherworldly Modern Homes that Were Never Built
While other modern architects imagined a future of single-family homes that resembled Rubik's Cubes, with boxy exteriors and primary-colored walls, Austrian-American artist and architect Frederick Kiesler considered a return to cave dwelling.
Art
Testing the Possibilities of Online Education with Museum MOOCs
MOOCs (massive open online courses) have been both hailed as a possible solution to providing low-cost, high-quality education and derided as a destructive reallocation of resources from public education to private corporations.
Opinion
Follow-Up to My Review: Does the Museum of Modern Art Even Know About This Great Photographer?
Very soon after my review of Louis Draper was published in Hyperallergic Weekend (February 7, 2016), I got an email from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and from the Museum of Modern Art.
Art
Take a Bite Out of Modernism with MoMA's 1988 Architecture Cookie Cutters
Which modern architecture icon makes a better cookie, Eero Saarinen's sleek TWA Terminal or Frank Lloyd Wright's spiraling Guggenheim Museum?
Art
In a Tea Ritual, Stopping Time and Reflecting on War with a Veteran
As we sat in a circle, Aaron Hughes began Tea by describing where he was in February 2003: watching the snow fall in his barracks while his fellow American troops were being deployed to Kuwait for the Iraq war.
Opinion
Learning About the Figure from Picasso's Sculptures
Seeing the current retrospective of Picasso’s sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art reminded me of a graduate school experience, because as I wandered through the show I saw work that cleverly illustrated problems that sculptors would need to solve and questions they might have to answer in the cour
In Brief
MoMA Unveils Unfun Revision of Its $400 Million Redesign
In disappointing news for those excited for a futuristic new Museum of Modern Art with retractable glass walls and moving floors, the museum has just unveiled scaled-back plans for its upcoming renovation.
Art
In a Performance, Walid Raad Playfully Probes His MoMA Survey
A note of hysteria begins to creep into Walid Raad’s voice as he concludes his hour-long monologue performance, "Scratching on things I could disavow: Walkthrough," at the Museum of Modern Art.
Art
Joaquín Torres-García: A Global Modernist Before His Time
Progress is one of the key myths to the reception, assessment, assimilation, and display of modernist art.
Books
The Men Behind MoMA’s Taste for Modernist Design
Long before it became a cultural juggernaut, MoMA was helmed by a young intellectual named Alfred H. Barr Jr. who, from 1929 to 1934, worked in close collaboration with architect Philip Johnson to make the museum an influential platform for modernism.