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Posts by Jason Persse
December 2, 2011  |  Do You Know Your MoMA?
Do You Know Your MoMA? 12/2/11

How well do you know your MoMA? If you think you can identify the artist and title of each of these works—all currently on view in the Painting and Sculpture and Architecture and Design galleries—please submit your answers by leaving a comment on this post. We’ll provide the answers next month (on Friday, January 6).

November 4, 2011  |  Do You Know Your MoMA?
Do You Know Your MoMA? 11/4/11

How well do you know your MoMA? If you think you can identify the artist and title of each of these works—all currently on view in the Painting and Sculpture and Architecture and Design galleries—please submit your answers by leaving a comment on this post. We’ll provide the answers next month (on Friday, December 2).

October 28, 2011  |  Five for Friday
Five for Friday: Halloween’s Modern Monsters

Halloween is my favorite holiday…by a wide margin. If we’re being honest, I might be a little too excited about October 31. Chalk it up to the influence of too many horror movies

October 7, 2011  |  Do You Know Your MoMA?
Do You Know Your MoMA? 10/7/11

How well do you know your MoMA? If you think you can identify the artist and title of each of these works—all currently on view in the Sculpture Garden and the Painting and Sculpture galleries—please submit your answers by leaving a comment on this post. We’ll provide the answers next month (on Friday, November 4).

September 27, 2011  |  An Auteurist History of Film
A Brief Auteurist History Hiatus

Duel in the Sun. 1946. USA. Directed by King Vidor

As you’ve probably noticed, it has been a few weeks since the last An Auteurist History of Film post. The column’s author, curator Charles Silver, is currently taking a brief hiatus, but his weekly musings on film history and auteur theory will resume shortly.

September 9, 2011  |  Film
“Laugh at the Devil”: The “Satan” Films of Roman Polanski

Rosemary's Baby. 1968. USA. Directed by Roman Polanski. Image courtesy Photofest

Trying to figure out which of Roman Polanski’s films are or are not “horror films” is a maddening and, in the end, fruitless exercise.

September 2, 2011  |  Do You Know Your MoMA?
Do You Know Your MoMA? 9/2/11

How well do you know your MoMA? If you think you can identify the artist and title of each of these works—all currently on view in the Painting and Sculpture galleries—please submit your answers by leaving a comment on this post. We’ll provide the answers next month (on Friday, October 7).

August 12, 2011  |  Five for Friday
Five for Friday: Tying the Knot

By the time you read this I will be roughly 36 hours away from getting married. Not that I’m counting. Needless to say, I have weddings on the brain. To call it a momentous occasion is something of an understatement; recent political and ideological debates over the very definition of marriage attest to the concept’s enduring impact. And it certainly seems like a big deal to me.

August 5, 2011  |  Do You Know Your MoMA?
Do You Know Your MoMA? 8/5/11

How well do you know your MoMA? If you think you can identify the artist and title of each of these works—all currently on view in The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden and the Painting and Sculpture galleries—please submit your answers by leaving a comment on this post. We’ll provide the answers—along with some information about each work—in one month (on Friday, September 2).

July 8, 2011  |  Do You Know Your MoMA?
Do You Know Your MoMA? 7/8/11

How well do you know your MoMA? If you think you can identify the artist and title of each of these works—all currently on view in The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden and the Painting and Sculpture galleries—please submit your answers by leaving a comment on this post. We’ll provide the answers—along with some information about each work—in one month (on Friday, August 5).