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Paintings in the Interzone: More from the Corridors of MoMA
Last year I wrote an article called “What You Might Be Missing at MoMA,” which discussed the paintings exiled to the corridors of the Museum of Modern Art’s fourth and fifth floors.
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Two Photographers Emerge from the Shadows with Over 400 Artist Portraits
Few people may know the names of Shunk-Kender, but the pair of photographers behind that hyphenated moniker have captured many of the most famous images of post-war modern and contemporary art in Paris and New York and together they documented many ephemeral events that would've been lost to history
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The Year of Rain and Cronuts
The New York art world was thrown a free joke when, over the summer, people waited in the rain to get into the Museum of Modern Art's Rain Room, a project by the studio Random International. The line was a capstone to a year of big projects with big draws, one more peak in a now-familiar rhythm: eve
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Single Point Perspective: Paweł Althamer’s Grass-Fed Surrealism
Inside the second floor galleries housing the contemporary collection of the Museum of Modern Art, a sculpture called “Bruno” (1998–2012) stands in quiet command of the room. Made primarily of grass and cow intestines, its materials transform the human body into a mediation on mortality via the dige
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.