By Maika Pollack 7/31/12 5:38pm

Review

Boetti

Back on the Map: ‘Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan’ at the Museum of Modern Art

If you want to see the Museum of Modern Art’s atrium gallery looking better than it ever has before, go now. Walls and floor alike are covered with handwoven rugs in an installation that forms part of a retrospective of the late Italian artist Alighiero Boetti. Since the museum opened its Yoshio Taniguchi-designed building eight years ago, this tricky atrium has foiled curators and artists alike, but the team responsible for the Boetti show—MoMA’s Christian Rattemeyer, along with Lynne Cooke, chief curator at Madrid’s Reina Sofia, and Mark Godfrey, curator at London’s Tate Modern—has transformed it into an intimate space. The museum’s heart finally looks warm and inviting rather than mall-like, a place where a small caravan might encamp, or a group of schoolchildren sit in a circle. Read More

By Rozalia Jovanovic 5/22/12 5:26pm

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Garage Sale. Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Great Britain, 2005 (Courtesy Jens Hoffmann)

Let’s Make a Deal: Get Ready for Some Hard Bargaining at Martha Rosler’s Meta-Monumental Garage Sale at MoMA

On a recent sunny Saturday afternoon, a group of young volunteers set up a white tent in front of the entrance to the Museum of Modern Art and began taking donations. “No food, no toxic waste,” said one of them, a woman. “And no weapons.”

Stuffed into cardboard boxes, the day’s haul included a bubble-wrapped acoustic guitar; various pieces of stereo equipment; books, including a guide to making paper airplanes; and a My Little Pony Ponyville Teapot Palace—not bad, considering this was only the third of six public drop-offs (over three weekends) for artist Martha Rosler’s “Meta-Monumental Garage Sale,” an artwork-cum-actual garage sale that will take place in the museum’s atrium for two weeks in November. In the meantime, Ms. Rosler and Sabine Breitwieser, MoMA’s chief curator of media and performance, have been taking donations from museum staff and trustees. “We got a porcelain artichoke,” said Ms. Breitwieser. Read More

4/16/12 11:36am

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Mr. Pendleton. (Photo by Matthew Septimus)

Adam Pendleton Brings Black Dada to MoMA and Pace

Two weeks ago, the artist Adam Pendleton was in his studio in Germantown, a small town in upstate New York, talking about Black Dada, a kind of conceptual manifesto that informs much of his work.

“It defies logic,” he said and let out a loud laugh. “It’s so illogical it’s almost humorous.” Read More