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April 12, 2012 | Collection & Exhibitions, Current Exhibitions, Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration

Marcel Jean, Witness and Sometime Actor

Posted by Samantha Friedman, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings

Currently on view in the third-floor drawings galleries, Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration includes five works that belong to this titular category of collaborative creation. The “exquisite corpse” was a parlor game played by Surrealist artists and poets in Paris in the 1920s. Read more

Five for Friday (Plus One): MoMA’s Car Collection

Posted by Daniela Stigh, former Assistant Director, Department of Communications

Five for Friday, written by a variety of MoMA staff members, is our attempt to spotlight some of the compelling, charming, and downright curious works in the Museum’s rich collection. Read more

Print/Out: Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Posted by Kim Conaty, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books

Felix Gonzalez-Torres. "Untitled." 1991. Billboard, dimensions vary with installation. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Werner and Elaine Dannheisser. © The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation, New York. Installation view at 11th Avenue and 38th Street, Manhattan (February 20–March 18, 2012), as part of Print/Out, The Museum of Modern Art, February 19–May 14, 2012. Photo by David Allison

Perhaps you were one of the lucky ones to stumble across these billboards in New York City over the last several weeks?

Felix Gonzalez-Torres. "Untitled." 1991. Billboard, dimensions vary with installation. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Werner and Elaine Dannheisser. © The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation, New York. Installation view at Neptune Avenue and Guider Avenue, Brooklyn (February 20–March 18, 2012), as part of Print/Out, The Museum of Modern Art, February 19–May 14, 2012. Photo by David Allison

Between February 20 and March 18, Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled” (1991) peppered the New York skyline, on six billboards throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. Read more

Drawing Back the Curtain: David Hammons in Printin’

Posted by Lotte Johnson, The Louise Bourgeois 12-Month Intern, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books

David Hammons. Untitled (Kool-Aid). 2003. Kool-Aid on paper with terry cloth frame. Collection Alice Kosmin

“I think that art now is putting people to sleep…people aren’t really looking at art, they’re looking at each other and each other’s haircuts.” So proclaimed David Hammons in a 1986 interview. Read more

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April 2, 2012 | Born out of Necessity

Born out of Necessity: Contemporary Design and the Myth of Problem Solving

Posted by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design

Have you ever encountered a definition—of art, design, poetry, or any creative endeavor—that you found truly satisfying? The ones that have the soundbite-ready punch that allows them to take hold in the public memory tend to be generic and superficial. Unless, as a curator, you learn to use them as doors into the sublime complexity of the field you explore and love. Read more

Cindy Sherman on the Films in Carte Blanche: Cindy Sherman

Posted by Lucy Gallun, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Photography

In conjunction with MoMA’s current Cindy Sherman retrospective (on view through June 11), the artist selected films that have informed her artistic practice for a special Carte Blanche: Cindy Sherman film series (which runs April 2–10 in MoMA’s theaters). Below are Cindy Sherman’s comments on the films, as told to Lucy Gallun. Read more

March 28, 2012 | Library and Archives

Making Millennium Magazines

Posted by Rachael Morrison, Senior Library Assistant, David Senior, Bibliographer, The Museum of Modern Art Library

Installation view of the Millennium Magazines exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, 2012

As we were brainstorming a name for our Library exhibition of contemporary experimental magazines, Millennium Magazines stuck because of its concise alliteration. The name also specifically isolates this recent period of time—post-Y2K—during which these publications have been flourishing despite constant conversations about the end of print culture. Read more

March 26, 2012 | Artists, Eugène Atget: “Documents pour artistes”, Publications

A Word with Eugène Atget

Posted by Makiko Wholey, Intern, Department of Publications

Cover of the publication Atget. John Szarkowski. 2000. The Museum of Modern Art, New York

In concert with the current photography exhibition Eugène Atget: “Documents pour artistes”, MoMA has republished Atget, a richly illustrated title first published by the Museum in 2000. Read more

Five for Friday: Bracketology and Art

Posted by David Hart, Media Producer, Digital Media

Five for Friday, written by a variety of MoMA staff members, is our attempt to spotlight some of the compelling, charming, and downright curious works in the Museum’s rich collection.

The NCAA men’s basketball tournament is underway, and the even the President has weighed in with his choices for “the bracket.” Read more