News
MoMA Latest Museum to Acquire Christian Marclay's "Clock"
We already knew New York is a 24-hr city, but with the acquisition of Christian Marclay's "The Clock" by MoMA, art lovers will have something to watch during every friggin' minute of it.
MoMA
Interview
Capitalism, Reality and Photography
I awoke from a daze when I walked into Boris Mikhailov’s Case History at MoMA. All of the sudden the white walls and sleek designs I’d come to expect from Friday-night strolls were replaced by muted flesh tones and a feeling of being watched. It was almost as if I’d switched roles with the work. Not
Opinion
T-shirts Are the New Galleries: Top 10 Artist Tees
The artist t-shirt is a development we’ve known here at Hyperallergic for some time, but we thought it’d be good to let our readers explore it further. The blurry line demarcating art and fashion is obfuscated when artists have a hand in designing clothes. Is it just a cheap ploy to stock the gift s
Opinion
Oh Look What NY Observer Found … MoMA's New Tower Design
In a classic press move, the New York Observer has gotten their hands on the proposed new stockier design for Jean Nouvel's MoMA tower through a public information request. Here's the skinny.
Interview
MoMA's Paola Antonelli Imagines the Future of Objects
Last week, I visited MoMA's new exhibition, Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Object and spoke to the institution's senior curator of design and architecture, Paola Antonelli, about the show, some poignant objects, the American insecurity towards design, her online habits …
Opinion
MoMA Yings & Crystal Bridges Yangs
Are American art institutions engaged in a Manichean battle between exclusivity and access? Will this be settled with a mud wrestling match between Crystal Bridges benefactor Alice Walton and MoMA director Glenn Lowry? Please, oh please, say it will be.
Opinion
Architecture Drama on 53rd Street
Will Jean Nouvel's MoMA tower get built? The initially 1,250 foot project has already had its crown knocked off and it is now slated to be 1,050 feet high but no word yet about the final design, according to the New York Observer this week …
Books
Contemporary History Through Prints
The goal of MoMA’s Print & Illustrated Book department’s latest show entitled Impressions from South Africa: 1965 to Now, is simple: to explore how various printmaking techniques have been used in South African art since the 1960s, when the museum first began collecting African art.
Opinion
Ryan Trecartin Makes a Movie Trailer
In advance of Ryan Trecartin's upcoming exhibition at PS1, the artist has released a trailer teaser to get us all excited for a new batch of video works.
Art
WTF is... Performance Art?
You may have heard that James Franco and Lady Gaga are performance artists, that their careers themselves are art objects built up over a lifetime. You may also believe that your Uncle Bob farting the alphabet is performance art. And maybe it is! Really, it's up to you, there's no quick and easy cha
News
Manhattan Museums Play Monopoly
This week has been pretty huge for New York City's museum community. Newly announced shake-ups mean that the Metropolitan Museum will be taking over the Whitney's uptown Breuer building as the younger institution heads downtown to a new Renzo Piano-designed space. The Museum of Modern Art is buying
Art
Can't-Miss NY Art Events For This Weekend
Even with New York City's constantly-full calendar of art events, this weekend is packed with shows, activities and sights for the whole family to enjoy. Check out the Festival of New Ideas around the New Museum, plus their Condo show ending this weekend, and see a new public sculpture by sculptor J