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The Thanhouser Company at 100 (The Leonard Lopate Show: Monday, 26 October 2009)
Original at WNYC
• Sun, Oct 25
By listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio) There is a free lecture and screening at the Museum of Arts & Culture, titled "Silents Are Golden: A Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Thanhouser Films" Wednesday, October 28, at 7:30 pm The Linda Kelly Theater at New Rochelle High School North Avenue at Braemer, New Rochelle
Vermeer & Monet at the Met & MoMA
Original at The New Criterion October 2009
• Wed, Sep 30
By Karen Wilkin On Vermeer’s Masterpiece: The Milkmaid at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York & “Monet’s Water Lilies” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Not quite as good as I was expecting
Original at TripAdvisor Reviews
• Fri, Sep 18
By Smileycat16, Winchester TripAdvisor traveler rating: 3 of 5 stars I had high hopes for MOMA as I love modern art but I left a little disappointed. I had been looking forward to seeing various artists like Kandinsky but there were only a couple of pieces by each of...
Podcast: Roy Andersson (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 11 September 2009)
Original at WNYC
• Fri, Sep 11
By listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio) Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson discusses his career. The film series "Filmmaker in Focus: Roy Anderson" is playing at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, September 10-18. For more information and screening schedule, visit www.moma.org. Events: Roy Andersson with be introduci...
MoMA Mia! Nouvel's Taller Tower Gets a Thumbs Up Down
Original at Curbed
• Mon, Jun 15
NY Until then, the public land-use review process churns on. The tapering tower would contain double-height expanded space for three floors of MoMA galleries, 100 hotel rooms in the tower's mid-section and 150 sky-high condos up top.
MOMA Tim Burton retrospective likely to feature book, story ...
Original at Examiner.com
• Sun, Jun 14
The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City announced it will host a Tim Burton retrospective exhibit beginning this fall. Among the filmmaker's many projects that are likely to be featured will be examples of work from his adaptations of books or ...
Ambassador for the Art of Performance
Original at New York Times
• Fri, Jun 12
United States This too is changing, with the Museum of Modern Art, for one, now acquiring performance art. And Mr. Gee, like Mr. Weinberg, describes his presence as an expansion: though he is an American artist, he recognizes that the Whitney represents something of ...
Blind Spot
Original at New York Times
• Thu, Jun 11
United States Several years ago I walked into a room of Giacometti figures at the Museum of Modern Art and suddenly understood how to see sculpture. Gaunt and insistent, the figures drew everything unessential from what surrounded them. The negative shape of the ...
Artnet News
Original at Artnet
• Wed, Jun 10
NY The Museum of Modern Art returns to the heyday of the punk era with "Looking at Music: Side 2," June 10-Nov. 30, 2009, a survey of over 120 photos, music vids, films, zines and other ephemera from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. ... Preview sales defy all expectations Art Newspaper
Eeny meeny miny MoMA: the Futurist centennial
Original at Examiner.com
• Tue, Jun 9
There is one on display in London at the Tate Modern, but proudly New York City boasts one at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the first cast and most celebrated version right here at the MoMA. Like Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, ...
Mac Virus In MOMA Permanent Collection
Original at Wired Blogs
• Mon, Jun 8
One: You can't get the Mac virus unless you pay for it, and two, the Mac virus is actually in the permanent collection of the MOMA in New York. The virus, as you may have guessed, is not a real virus. Named the “Newton Virus”, it is in fact more of a ...
With apologies to Frank Sinatra
Original at AgWeb
• Sun, Jun 7
There are some priorities –the Staten Island ferry, Empire State Building, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Natural History and of course a Broadway show. In between all that there will be lots and lots (and lots) of dining. There aren'ta whole lot of ...
Nouvel's MoMA Tower Flunks First Community Test
Original at Curbed
• Fri, Jun 5
NY Economic frownies be damned, the Observer's Eliot Brown recently reported that developer Hines was pushing ahead with the public-review process for Jean Nouvel's epically awesome and epically delayed Tower Verre near the Museum of Modern Art on West ...
MoMA's Looking at Music: Side 2 - exhibition includes Richard Hell ...
Original at brooklynvegan
• Fri, Jun 5
NY The site will launch by June 17, 2009. www.moma.org/lookingatmusic2 FlickR: In conjunction with MoMA's exhibition, visitors to MoMA's FlickR page, http://www.flickr.com/groups/lookingatmusic, will be able to add personal photographs and remembrances of ...
LARRY FENNELLY: Backlot Players upgrade their space and offerings
Original at Macon Telegraph
• Thu, May 28
GA Opening June 6 at Atlanta's High Museum is “Monet Water Lilies,” a group of paintings by impressionist Claude Monet traveling for the first time to the Southeast from the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Live theater will soon be a scarce commodity in ...
ANZ branch becomes art work for a day
Original at National Business Review
• Mon, May 25
New Zealand He has developed significant projects for the Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Modern Art New York, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Sydney Biennale and Venice Biennale, to name but a few from an extensive list of group, and one-person shows in Asia, ...
Master of Story Quilts and Much More
Original at New York Times
• Sat, May 23
United States It has been a fixture in museum shows for more than two decades; her quilts and paintings also belong to the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum. The present exhibition is slowly paced and ...
Video Spectacles, Imagined or, in One Case, Real
Original at New York Times
• Thu, May 21
United States “Schoolyard” (2009), commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art and one of eight Aernout Mik videos on view there. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. ...
MoMA's 'I See' Weds the Abstract to Real Life
Original at Adrants
• Wed, May 13
We confess to being surprised by this video, one component of a campaign called "I See" for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). In it, a bored museum-goer holds an audio guide to his ear and listens while it describes an abstract installation in a way ... MoMa's latest Goes Behind The Art Creativity
Poster Boy-Friendly Ad Agency Happycorp: Dead? (Updated)
Original at gawker.com
• Mon, Apr 27
By Hamilton Nolan Thehappycorp is an edgy little ad agency that most recently made news for getting Poster Boy to remix some MOMA ads, and getting fired by MOMA for it. Now a tipster says everyone's been fired. If you have more info and you'd like to confirm or deny, email us. Pic of the Poster Boy MOMA stunt in acti...
Art Review | 'Compass in Hand' MoMA Pushes the Envelope in Works ...
Original at New York Times
• Fri, Apr 24
A portion of Kelley Walker's “nine disasters,” one of 354contemporary works in an exhibition at the Modern. More Photos > By ROBERTA SMITH The Museum of Modern Art is deeply divided. It wants to run wild and kick up its heels, but it can't imagine a ...
Opinion: MoMA receives second grant for Alzheimer's art project
Original at Craegmoor
• Fri, Apr 24
New York Times UK The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York has received another grant of $400000 (£272570) to fund its Meet Me at MoMA campaign, which aims to help people with Alzheimer's disease. Receive from the MetLife Foundation, the two-year funding will help ...
Dyslexic Spiders - Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel at the MoMA
Original at CreativeFluff
• Fri, Apr 3
By Megalongcat I highly suggest if you’re in the tri-state area to come drop by NYC and come to the MoMA for this exhibit. You’ll notice if you’ve been keeping track of Creative Fluff’s design events that last week we had posted about Sun Kwak’s tape mosiac exhibition. The MoMA seems to have great and innov...
Art review: 'William Kentridge: Five Themes'
Original at San Francisco Chronicle
• Thu, Mar 26
Dexigner USA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third St., San Francisco. (415) 357-4000, www.sfmoma.org. "William Kentridge: Five Themes" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will offer many people the same sort of thrilling experience of discovery that ...
Opinion: MoMA Presents Major US Retrospective of Influential German Artist ...
Original at Art Daily
• Sat, Feb 28
New York Magazine The exhibition will be on view in MoMA’s Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Gallery, sixth floor, from March 1 to May 11, 2009. Kippenberger’s installation The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s “Amerika” (1994) is installed in the Museum’s Donald B. and Catherine ...
Art Review | Martin Kippenberger
Original at New York Times
• Fri, Feb 27
He was the same person in his art. He produced many self-portraits, and several are in the MoMA show, which has been organized by Ann Goldstein of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and Ann Temkin, MoMA’s chief curator of painting and ...
Kippenberger’s Giant Egg, Likable Communist at MoMA: Review
Original at Bloomberg
• Thu, Feb 26
The results of this incessant production comprise “Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which opens to the public Sunday. Kippenberger lived life fast -- drinking too much and dying from liver cancer in ...
How To: Fashion Explorer: Arena Homme +; Francis Bacon goes Tribal, Part IOriginal at YouTube
• Tue, Feb 24
By rss@youtube.com (WorldOrganization) Author: WorldOrganization Keywords: Fashion Arena Homme + Magazine Arena Homme + Magazine Homme + Make Up Tutorial beauty art MOMA Francis Bacon Modern Art Painting Fashion Magazine Style 10 10 Magazine Eva Herzigova India Alistair McLellan Lara Stone Beyonce GQ
Van Gogh and the Colours of the Night, review (Amsterdam)
Original at History News Network
• Tue, Feb 10
WA - Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night is one of the first pictures the visitor sees in New York's Museum of Modern Art, its placement proclaiming its status as a ...
Van Gogh and the Colours of the Night, review
Original at Telegraph.co.uk
• Mon, Feb 9
United Kingdom - By Richard Dorment Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night is one of the first pictures the visitor sees in New York's Museum of Modern Art, its placement ...
Modern Dwellings for the Modern Soul
Original at BlogHer
• Mon, Dec 22
By Saxon Henry Each year in November, the Miami chapter of the American Institute of Architects produces a month-long celebration that shines a spotlight on the city’s architecture and its creators. This past November, Barry Bergdoll, MoMA’s Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design...
Podcast: Laugh and Live: The Films of Douglas Fairbanks (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 17 December 2008)
Original at WNYC
• Tue, Dec 16
By listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio) Hear about the life of movie pioneer producer, writer, and swashbuckling star Douglas Fairbanks. He’s the subject of a new film retrospective at MoMA, "Laugh and Live: The Films of Douglas Fairbanks," Dec. 17 through Jan. 12; there’s also a new DVD set of his films just out from Flicker Alley....
'Art of Participation' Connects Viewers, Artists
Original at Wired Blogs
• Mon, Dec 15
By Brita d'Agostino Image: Video still from Nam June Paik's A Tribute to John Cage (1973, 1976)/Courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Camille W. and William S. Broadbent Fund : Photo: Ian Reeves/Courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern Art : Photo: Brita d'Agostino/Wired.com
Opinion: American History: Just Another Washington Museum?
Original at DCist
• Sat, Nov 22
By Kriston Capps That sounds like new flash rather than new substance. This writer hasn't seen the newly restored museum yet but wasn't happy with a lot about it before it closed. Any reader before-and-after reactions to the renovated National Museum of American History?
Opinion: Gallery: The First Decades of Seeing the Unseen
Original at Wired Blogs
• Fri, Nov 21
By Alexis Madrigal Photo courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The intertwined social, scientific and artistic impacts of 19th century photography is the subject of a new exhibit, Brought to Light Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900, at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art.
Art review: SFMOMA show invites 'Participation'
Original at San Francisco Chronicle
• Fri, Nov 7
USA - Nov 7, 2008 In introducing "The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now," which opens today at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Rudolf Frieling, SFMOMA curator of ... Art review: Martin Puryear sculptures at SFMOMA San Francisco Chronicle all 2 news articles
Podcast: Joan Miro: Painting and Anti-Painting (The Leonard Lopate Show: Monday, 27 October 2008)
Original at WNYC
• Mon, Oct 27
Spanish painter Joan Miro once said, "I want to assassinate painting." A new exhibit at MoMA, "Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927–1937," looks at how that decade transformed and invigorated Miro’s work; Ann Umland is curator; Joan Punyet Miro is the artist's grandson and manag...
Art Review | 'Picasso’s ‘Marie-Thérèse' Picasso in Lust and Ambition
Original at New York Times
• Thu, Oct 23
United States - Oct 23, 2008 But as the only major Picasso show in town — unless you count MoMA’s collection — it’sa must-see. As for “The Dream,” it’s not too good because it’s so ...
The Russians Aren't Coming, They're Already Here! Lehman Chair Looks to Moscow to Sell His Art Collection
Original at New York Observer
• Fri, Sep 26
By Irina Aleksander While Mr. Fuld continues to arrive at his corner office on the 31st floor of Lehman's Midtown Manhattan headquarters every day, his net worth has plummeted significantly. (In February 2007 his shares of the company were worth $86.18; today they trade for 33 cents.) The journal also notes tha...
Art Review | Van Gogh: Nocturnal van Gogh, Illuminating the Darkness
Original at NYT > Art & Design
• Sat, Sep 20
The show of paintings, drawings and letters by Vincent van Gogh at the Museum of Modern Art is small and quirky: it is an anti-blockbuster.
Podcast: Design and the Elastic Mind
Original at BusinessWeek
• Wed, Feb 27
Paola Antonelli, Architecture & Design curator at NY's Museum of Modern Art, discusses a new exhibit that shows how design can transform so-called disruptive technologies, complex data, and scientific breakthroughs in surprising and creative works
Podcast: Pencil This In
Original at Gothamist
• Sun, Jul 22
By Jen Carlson MUSIC: If you don't mind getting wet, we'd suggest heading over to the MLK Jr. Concert Series tonight. Get nostalgic with Philly's own Boys II Men. The group created a ton of guilty pleasure songs that still take up space in iPods nationwide. American Idol's Ruben Studdard also performs. Call (...
Pencil This InOriginal at Gothamist
• Mon, Jul 2
By Jen Carlson MOVIES: It's a great double-feature at MoMA tonight as a kick-off to the MoMA Laffs series (that will run through September). "MoMA Laffs surveys the comic spirit in the Museum's film archive with an international selection covering eighty years of antic cinema—from films incorporati...
Raymond J. Learsy: The Venice Biennale, A European Triumph, A Global Cast, and a Great American Art Director
Original at Huffington Post
• Thu, Jun 7
By Raymond J. Learsy Think With The Senses- Feel With the Mind" as the 52nd Venice Biennale is titled and is, according to Robert Storr, its Director (the former Museum of Modern Art curator and now Dean of the Yale School of Art) predicated on "the conviction that art is now, as it has always been, the means by wh...
Podcast: Core77 Broadcast: Gary Hustwit in Helvetica, interviewed by Alissa Walker
Original at core77.com's design blog
• Fri, May 11
Director Gary Hustwit has been accompanying the film to screenings and Q&As at festivals, cultural institutions and AIGA chapters in the U.S. and Europe, almost every single one of which has sold out. Over 50 cities have scheduled screenings, and more dates continue to be added as the b...
Mega Museum Shows: A Primer of New Ideas
Original at Blogcritics
• Fri, May 11
By Lenny Campello Nonetheless I have been hard at work with some suggestions almost guaranteed to bring huge masses to the Corcoran, or any other museum in the nation for that matter -- lines like the ones we experienced in DC with the Vermeer exhibition, or the Van Gogh exhibition, or the WPA/C PostSecret e...
Book Review - Nash Editions: Photography And The Art Of Digital Printing by Garrett White (editor) with Graham Nash, Richard Benson, R. Mac Holbert and Henry Wilhelm
Original at Blogcritics
• Sun, Mar 11
By T. Michael Testi The Four Stages of Photography" by Richard Benson; the Dean of the Yale School of Art since 1986 and whose work resides in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, as well as many other institutions and private collections, explains how photography moved from the early st...
Podcast: Museum of Modern Art
Original at BusinessWeek
• Mon, Aug 28
Barry Bergdoll, a prominent art historian and chair of the Department of Art History at Columbia University, will become the chief curator of architecture and design at New York's Museum of Modern Art on January 1, 2007.
Podcast: Pixar at MoMA
Original at BusinessWeek
• Mon, Dec 19
A new exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art pulls together drawings, paintings, sculpture and, of course, films from throughout animation studio Pixar's 20-year history.
Podcast: Moore to Give
Original at BusinessWeek
• Sun, Nov 27
Philanthropist David Rockefeller marked his 90th birthday this year with two mega gifts: He pledged $100 million to the Museum of Modern Art and $100 million to Rockefeller University. He'll provide both institutions with $5 million a year until his death, when they will receive the gif...