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With one version of Munch's renowned The Scream series on display at MoMA, New Yorkers and tourist are mimicking the bald figure's extreme expression much the way tourists to Oslo have long been doing — though some aren't very successful at it. Some people may think it's tacky, I think it's a scream
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The Museum of Modern Art posted this pretty fantastic photo on its Facebook page today — a shot of museum staff going Gangnam Style in support of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. If you're confused about why a New York museum would support a Chinese artist by dancing to a mega-popular song by South Korean
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You’d never find Pablo Picasso or Jackson Pollock relegated to the corridors of the Museum of Modern Art. Rarely do artists deemed essential to MoMA’s historical narrative rub elbows with the throngs swarming the escalators and passageways in endless transit from galleries to café to restroom and ba
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Six days before all hell broke loose, I rode the subway uptown to attend the press preview of Edvard Munch: The Scream at the Museum of Modern Art. As the preview drew to a close and the already crowded room swelled with paying customers, I asked Ann Temkin, the Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Cu
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A trove of fresh drawings and paintings have been officially attributed to the Surrealist master René Magritte by the Magritte Foundation, and they display a restless mind and finely-tuned hand at work. A series of sketches by the artist give a glimpse into how he planned out his compositions.
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The invention of abstraction was not the inspiration of a solitary protagonist, but a relay of ideas that moved through a network of artists and intellectuals working in different countries and different media and MoMA's new graph drawing shows it in all its beauty.
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All of the lost-looking tourists outside the Museum of Modern Art on Tuesdays, rejoice! The museum has announced that it will be staying open seven days a week starting in May of 2013. Presumably, MoMA will still take a few holidays off, putting it a little below that Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam which
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Edvard Munch’s iconic "The Scream" (1895), among the most celebrated and recognized images in art history, will go on view at The Museum of Modern Art for a period of six months beginning October 24.
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The other day I saw two solo exhibitions: The Words by Jen Mazza at Stephan Stoyanov Gallery and Game Plan by Alighiero Boetti at MoMA. Both artists want to show you what they value in their lives, but they use their inspiration to different ends. Mazza paints unassuming still lifes of books. Boetti
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There are 24 charcoal drawings now on display at the Museum of Modern Art that Willem de Kooning did with his eyes closed. This was not an uncommon thing for de Kooning, who often liked to close his eyes, or avert his eyes, or use them to watch TV while he drew. This may sound like a gimmick, or som
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Stephen and Timothy Quay became filmmakers entirely by accident. As Stephen recounted during the remarks that concluded the press preview for the artists’ retrospective, which opens tomorrow at the Museum of Modern Art, they were on their way to Amsterdam to take jobs as illustrators when fate inter
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I'm not normally one for audio tours, but this afternoon the Museum of Modern Art posted about a brand new museum tour highlighting 31 wide-ranging works in its collection. The tour, titled MoMA Unadulterated, features sharp and incisive commentary on pieces by Marisol, Joseph Beuys, Alberto Giacome