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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
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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
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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
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The Boston MFA is purchasing Christian Marclay's epic movie mash-up “The Clock” (2010) (recently on view in NYC) for $250,000. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art bought the piece in April, and there are rumors that MoMA plans to do the same. What's up with this collecting fad?
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Sometimes an exhibition reminds you of why exhibitions exist, those surprising moments when usually dull curatorial exercises become transcendent experiences, reinvigorating overlooked corners of art history. I Am Still Alive at the Museum of Modern Art is one of those exhibitions, defiant and vivac
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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
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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