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A Step Beyond Looking at Art: MoMA's New iPad App
MoMA's new Art Lab iPad app helps you look beyond simply looking at work, you can learn about it by engaging in creation.
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WTF Is Up With Marina Abramović: The Movie? A Review
Hyperallergic writers and siblings Brendan and Marisa Carroll recently went to see Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present, a documentary about the performance artist’s Museum of Modern Art retrospective. The museum retrospective included photos, videos and re-creations of Abramović’s performances f
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Out of Time: A Look Back at Cindy Sherman at MoMA
LOS ANGELES — Cindy Sherman has been plagued by that one-hit wonder malaise that strikes so many musicians who deliver delightfully wonderful first albums only to follow-up with disappointing sophomore efforts as their careers predictably fade away. They leave behind only memories of that one hit, t
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The Painting That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits
Andrew Shea’s blistering new documentary, Portrait of Wally, untangles the complicated historical, legal and moral threads surrounding Egon Schiele’s painting “Portrait of Wally” (1912), which pitted the art world against heirs of the painting’s pre-World War II owners and the US government.
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A Critical Discussion on the Art of Video Gaming
It’s a sunny Friday morning in midtown Manhattan, and at the education building of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the second day of the conference “Critical Play — The Game as an Art Form” begins its debates. I'm no video gaming expert, but with 50 other physical attendees and many more over live
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How to Talk about Art: Cindy Sherman Edition
If only you knew how to talk about Cindy Sherman you’d feel better about throwing yourself into the ring with all the art pundits and critics who have been falling over themselves to give kudos to the current MoMA retrospective which covers her 35 year career from when she was good until now.
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Scripted Wars, Towers of Power
The United States, under the leadership of George W. Bush, launched its unprovoked, premeditated invasion of Iraq on March 19, 2003. On November 20, 2004, the Museum of Modern Art opened its 630,000-square-foot Yoshio Taniguchi-designed building.
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Where Did I See Google's Project Glass Before … MoMA
The project should look quite familiar to anyone who remembers seeing Keiichi Matsuda's "Augmented (hyper) Reality: Augmented City 3D" (2010) at last year's Talk to Me show at MoMA.
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Having Trouble Thinking Outside the White Box
MoMA’s latest thematic exhibition Print/Out aims to examine the ways printing has expanded and molded contemporary art practice. Is it successful?
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The Uses of Dismemberment: MoMA’s Exquisite Corpses
Dr. Frankenstein’s monster, as discussed in last week’s post, was assembled out of discarded body parts — an exhumed limb here, a torso there — with everything “awkwardly sewn into a corporeal pastiche.”
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PS1 One Ups MoMA's Thai Curry Kitchen With a Québécois Cafeteria
Québécois cuisine in New York hasn't been the same after M. Wells Dinette closed in Long Island City. But wait, the boîte will be resurrected as the new cafeteria-ish eatery at MoMA's hipper sister in Queens, PS1. Sure, Rirkrit Tiravanija's curry kitchen, aka "Untitled (Free)" (1992), is feeding gal
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Klaus Biesenbach Explains Why Kraftwerk Deserves a MoMA Retrospective
Last week, Kraftwerk-loving New Yorkers were in tears as tickets to the German electronic group's upcoming retrospective at MoMA sold out at lightning speed. One friend told me she was poised with multiple browsers when tickets went on sale, but she was still out of luck, as they disappeared in the