Interview
Art and the Politics of Acceptance: A Conversation With Peter Selz
Peter Selz — prolific curator, art historian, and an instrumental figure in the scholarship on modern art — hardly bears introduction.
MoMA
Art
This Is Not a Meal: Eating Magritte at MoMA
As the blue Prosecco-and-Curaçao cocktails were passed around, I asked Elaine Tin Nyo, the artist and ringleader of Edible Magritte, an after-hours event at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), if we’d be eating eyeballs that night.
Art
Leaving Home: René Magritte in Brussels and Paris
In his dismissal of Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938 — the recently opened retrospective of René Magritte (1898-1967) at the Museum of Modern Art — the New York Times’ Holland Cotter cites the ubiquity of the Belgian surrealist’s images and the relative paucity of insight to be glean
Interview
The Digital Literacy of Tristan Perich's Sound
HANOVER, New Hampshire — When Tristan Perich, creator of the "Microtonal Wall" for the Museum of Modern Art's Soundings exhibition, told me that understanding computer languages was now practically “a prerequisite for living,” two things came to mind.
Art
Films in 60 Seconds: Just Another Modern Monday
On Monday, September 30, the Museum of Modern Art opened another season of its Modern Monday series with a selection of screenings from the recently defunct One Minute Film Fest.
Art
Museum Websites From the Past Millennium
Browsing the early websites of major art museums makes for an entertaining exercise.
Interview
An Interview with the First Poet Laureate of MoMA
Kenneth Goldsmith and I sat down at our computers in constantly changing parts of the world, and we talked about his recent poet laureateship at the Museum of Modern Art. For the position, he delivered a special lecture and organized a series that invited contemporary poets to read in galleries to m
News
MoMA Turns Their Private Garden into a Public Park for the Mornings
This September 9, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is starting new free early hours in its Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. The move is in effect year-round to turn this private space into a public space each morning.
Interview
Capturing the Sound of Abandoned Space
This Saturday, August 9, the Museum of Modern Art will open its first major exhibition of sound art. Soundings: A Contemporary Score presents work by sixteen contemporary artists who use sound, whether as an exclusive medium or in combination with video, installation, painting, sculpture, and more.
Opinion
Video Interlude: Polishing a Giacometti Sculpture
I found it rather soothing to watching two employees at the Museum of Modern Art polish the large Alberto Giacometti sculpture, "Tall Figure, III" (1960), in the museum courtyard.
Interview
They’re Here, They’re Queer, Get Into It: Dirty Looks
This July, the monthly film series Dirty Looks mounted the second installment of their “On Location” program, an ongoing presentation of art interventions that encroaches everywhere from bars to galleries to the television sets of everyone in the New York area. The series takes on guerrilla tactics
Opinion
The Most New York Summer 2013 Photo Ever
Today the world changed. The cruelest man in the world, Dominique Ansel, the chef and owner of the bakery of the same name, tweeted a tantalizing photo of the all elusive Cronut™ being held up to the damp light inside of MoMA's Rain Room.