Art
Walking through the Museum of Modern Art's modern galleries the other day, I happened upon a small painting that's about as powerful a work as any I've ever seen in the museum, and maybe my favorite object in the collection. Surprisingly, this mini work is actually a Picasso, and even at 6 1/4 by 4
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Tamsin Nutter and Brigitta Bungard of the Museum of Modern Art have put together a project that exposes that other, non-curatorial, side of the museum world — the viewers' experiences. For a few days in February, they placed stations with pads of paper and pens in MoMA's galleries for guests to jot
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With the release of a brand new iPad application, the Museum of Modern Art forays into the territory of digital publishing. The free application is a smooth way to buy the digital versions of MoMA's exhibition catalogues, but the app also presents several advantages over simply buying PDF versions o
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After stopping in to Hyperallergic's local coffee shop one morning, I noticed something interesting in the newsstand next to the Village Voices and L Magazines. I took a closer look. MoMA's logo? On a newsprint publication? The Museum of Modern Art is refreshing an old form of advertising to get the
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Most museums are too expensive to really be what we want them to be: public cultural resources open all the time, to everyone. The Museum of Modern Art, at $20 per ticket for adults, is the target of a lot of complaints. But today, get $40 for $20 at MoMA through Groupon! Now you'll totally donate.
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Andy Warhol’s artwork tends to elicit strong reactions, whether it’s love in the form of poster-buying, hate in the form of getting angry at gallery installations or boredom, displayed by just not going to Warhol exhibitions at all. I happen to like Warhol’s art, although until recently, I had only
Andy Warhol
Tomorrow, Hyperallergic will join WNYC, ARTnews Magazine and architecture and literary experts Mark Lamster and Bryan Waterman to live-tweet MoMA's screening of the 485-minute duration classic, Empire (1964). For a complete list of tweeps to follow for the exercise in duration art reporting, discuss
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space If Hyperallergic was a teen magazine, Museum of Modern Art design curator Paola Antonelli would totally be our crush of the moment. In this video, from Vice's Creators Project, see Antonelli discuss the “communication” that takes place between people and technology, through the medium of desig
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In another giant leap for art online, Google has released Art Project, a collaboration with a group of 17 international art museums, including New York's own Metropolitan and Museum of Modern Art, to put their collections online. But this isn't just a rehash of some online slideshow. Museums partici
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MoMA photography curator Roxana Marcoci knows that we are experiencing a “renaissance of performance”. The show she has curated in collaboration with Eva Respini, Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960 [http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1100], will explore the role of the
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The New York Times announced today that the Museum of Modern Art has acquired David Wojnarowicz's “A Fire in My Belly,” including both the artist-cut 7 minute version and the 13 minute full work. The acquisition pays testament to the work's newfound significance after being censored from the Smithso
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It's the New Year all over again, and aside from going out and partying, there's not much in the New Year to look forward to yet. I'm finding myself starting at empty calendar and wondering what to fill it up with. Why not schedule in some art? It's never to early to start that exhibition calendar g