Free MoMA Admission for First 100 Visitors on Tuesdays During May
To mark the fact that the it is now open seven days a week, the Museum of Modern Art will offer free admission to the first 100 visitors who stop by on Tuesdays this month. Read More
To mark the fact that the it is now open seven days a week, the Museum of Modern Art will offer free admission to the first 100 visitors who stop by on Tuesdays this month. Read More
While the Museum of Modern Art has not publicized the names of the various poets participating in its “Transform the World! Poetry Must Be Made by All!” event on Saturday, Fulton Ryder just announced its own plans for the afternoon. Wander through the fourth-floor painting and sculpture galleries from 3 to 4 p.m. and you’ll find Dan Colen in the Richard Serra room reading from his recent art book, A Real Bronx Cheer (2012). Read More
Marina Abramovic The Artist Is Present, a 2012 documentary by Matthew Akers about the artist as she prepared for her very popular exhibition of the same name at MoMA in 2010, is the recipient of a George Foster Peabody Award, the oldest award in broadcasting. Read More
“It actually makes me nervous to stand up to speak about it, because I still go and look at these things way too frequently,” the artist Trisha Donnelly said at the start of her talk at MoMA on Monday night. She was discussing the works in the show that she has organized for the “Artist’s Choice” series, which invites artists to curate from the museum’s collection. Her show, in galleries on the fourth and fifth floors, is on view for three more weeks.
As an artist, Ms. Donnelly throws curveballs. Most famously, she arrived at one of her crowded openings on horseback, reciting a mysterious speech. At MoMA on Monday, she asked for the lights to be turned off in the sold-out theater. She wanted to play some music that had influenced the show. Read More
This morning, the Museum of Modern Art hosted a press preview for its presentation of Christian Marclay’s 24-hour film, The Clock (2010), which goes on view in a theater built in the museum’s contemporary galleries tomorrow, Thursday, Dec. 21. It runs through Jan. 21. Before the film went on view this morning, MoMA’s director, Glenn Lowry, discussed the work with Mr. Marclay in front of a packed house of writers in the museum’s atrium. Read More
The Museum of Modern Art announced today that, beginning in May, it will stay open every single day of the week. The museum is currently closed one day a week, on Tuesday. The news came to us via The New York Times, which noted that the Metropolitan Museum of Art recently said that it was studying whether to go to an around-the-week schedule. Read More
MONDAY, AUGUST 27
Avery McCarthy, “destination unknown presented by Annabel Vartanian,” curated by Erin Goldberger, John Morrow at Orchard Windows Gallery
Why not see some weirder stuff as the summer winds down? Avery McCarthy uses dark room environments and digital LED lights to create abstract concepts like a grain of sand or a supernova. Read More
Most of the current Alighiero Boetti retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art is housed in the second-floor atrium and on the sixth floor, but there’s one work tucked away in the sculpture garden, surrounded by a pile of stones and a few warning signs. That’s Boetti’s 1993 Autoritratto (Self-portrait), a bronze sculpture of the artist that is heated with electrical equipment inside his head (“Please do not touch,” those signs state). Read More
On Sept. 12, the Museum of Modern Art will unveil two new performance-based exhibitions. “Performing Histories (I)” is the first of a two-part exhibition organized by Sabine Breitwieser, chief curator of the media and performance art department, that explores the variety of ways media art has engaged with history and will include recent additions to the museum’s collection. On the same day, the museum will also unveil a three-part performance series with an almost identical title, “Performing Histories,” which will present three live performances in conjunction with three exhibitions in the museum. Read More
