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January 13, 2016 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions

Joaquín Torres-García’s Creative Paradox

Posted by Karen Grimson, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings and Prints

Installation view of Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (October 25, 2015–February 15, 2016). Photo: Jonathan Muzikar. © 2016 The Museum of Modern Art, New York

When Joaquín Torres-García returned to his native Uruguay in 1934, he was 60 years old and had lived abroad for more than 40 years. During the first years of his American relocation, before he became the referential Master at Taller Torres-García, he founded and directed the Asociación de Arte Constructivo, the achronym for which—AAC—appears signed on most of his paintings from 1935 to 1938. During these years Torres-García created a series of black-and-white abstract paintings that constitute one of the most striking repertoires of synthetic abstraction ever produced in the Americas.

Off the Record: Mike Kelley’s Extracurricular Activities

Posted by Karen Grimson, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings and Prints Margaret Aldredge, Curatorial Assistant, MoMA PS1

Installation view of Mike Kelley: Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (A Domestic Scene), The Museum of Modern Art, October 13, 2013–February 2, 2014

In honor of Mike Kelley’s exceptional career and legacy, Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (A Domestic Scene), a seminal work in his complex videography, is on view both at MoMA PS1—as part of the artist’s posthumous retrospective—and in MoMA’s second-floor Projects Gallery.

Drawing Homage to León Ferrari (1920–2013)

Posted by Karen Grimson, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings and Prints

Installation view, León Ferrari homage, The Museum of Modern Art, 2013

One of the most relevant figures in 20th-century art, and a paradigm of the communion of art and politics, León Ferrari sadly passed away last July, at age 92. Paying homage to his achievements and extraordinary legacy, a selection of his work, drawn from MoMA’s collection, was recently on view outside the Museum’s second-floor Marron Atrium.