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December 24, 2012 | Collection & Exhibitions

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! Back on January 2

Posted by Rebecca Stokes, INSIDE/OUT

Christian Marclay. Video stills from The Clock. 2010. Single-channel video with sound, 24 hours. Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! Hope you enjoy the holiday season to the fullest, and we’ll be back on January 2.

If you are in New York City for New Year’s Eve, come to MoMA for a special showing of Christian Marclay’s cinematic tour de force The Clock in its entirety, which is the first opportunity for the public to view all 24 hours of the piece at MoMA. The Clock will go on view at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, December 31, and will run continuously until 5:30 p.m. on January 1. In conjunction with this showing, the Museum’s Cafe 2 restaurant offers a special menu of wines, cheeses, salumi, and desserts on New Year’s Eve from 10:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m., along with an all-night espresso bar. We hope you will join us!

November 22, 2012 | Collection & Exhibitions

Happy Thanksgiving! We’ll be back on November 26

Posted by Rebecca Stokes, INSIDE/OUT

1964. Screenprint on shopping bag with handles, Composition: 7 1/2 x 9" (19.1 x 22.8 cm); sheet (irreg.): 19 5/16 x 16 15/16" (49 x 43 cm). Publisher: Bianchini Gallery, New York. Printer: Ben Birillo, New York. Edition: approx. 125. Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder. © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein. Turkey Shopping Bag. 1964. Screenprint on shopping bag with handles. Publisher: Bianchini Gallery, New York. Printer: Ben Birillo, New York. Edition: approx. 125. Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder. © 2012 Estate of Roy Lichtenstein

Happy Thanksgiving!

We’ll be back on Monday, November 26.

Have a great holiday.

February 3, 2012 | Artists, Behind the Scenes, Collection & Exhibitions

Rirkrit Tiravanija: Cooking Up an Art Experience

Posted by Rebecca Stokes, INSIDE/OUT

In 1992, Rirkrit Tiravanija created an exhibition entitled Untitled (Free) at 303 Gallery in New York. This landmark piece, in which the artist converted a gallery into a kitchen where he served rice and Thai curry for free, has been recreated at MoMA as part of the installation Contemporary Galleries: 1980–Now on view on the second floor. This back office curry kitchen has been replicated to scale, and the artist worked with MoMA to recreate the experience, with curry prepared and served by the Museum’s restaurant staff daily from noon—3:00 p.m.

In this deceptively simple conceptual piece, the artist invites the visitor to interact with contemporary art in a more sociable way, and blurs the distance between artist and viewer. You aren’t looking at the art, but are part of it—and are, in fact, making the art as you eat curry and talk with friends or new acquaintances.

In the video above, Laura Hoptman, curator in the Museum’s Department of Painting and Sculpture, discusses the work, and visitors share their reactions. But come see for yourself, Thai vegetable curry and rice will be served through February 8 only, and the original recipe can be found in the installation.

December 26, 2011 | Collection & Exhibitions

Happy Holidays! Back on January 2

Posted by Rebecca Stokes, INSIDE/OUT

Tod Papageorge. New Year's Eve at Studio 54. 1978

Happy Holidays and happy New Year!

We’ll be back on January 2.

Hope you enjoy the holiday season to the fullest.

August 26, 2011 | Five for Friday

Five for Friday: The End of Summer Is Near

Posted by Rebecca Stokes, INSIDE/OUT

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.

June 24, 2011 | Viewpoints

INSIDE/OUT Wants to Know What You Think

Posted by Rebecca Stokes, INSIDE/OUT

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April 22, 2011 | Five for Friday

Five for Friday: Get Your Green On

Posted by Rebecca Stokes, INSIDE/OUT

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. In honor of Earth Day, here are some eco-friendy—and eco-scary—works to help you get your green on.

April 7, 2011 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions, Videos, Viewpoints

In the Artist’s Space: Helen Mirren on Vasily Kandinsky

Posted by Rebecca Stokes, INSIDE/OUT

While Dame Helen Mirren was in New York to film her movie Arthur—a remake of the 1981 Dudley Moore classic—she graciously agreed to do a video interview at The Museum of Modern Art. Truth be told, I’m a huge fan of the dame. In addition to being a fantastic actor, she’s beautiful, smart, and completely unpretentious. She’s an art lover, and she is especially enamored of the pioneering abstract paintings of Vasily Kandinsky, whose work is represented in MoMA’s collection and whose “Four Seasons” were very fortuitously on view on the day of her visit (and they still are).

March 25, 2011 | Five for Friday

Five For Friday: April Snow Showers Bring May Flowers?

Posted by Rebecca Stokes, INSIDE/OUT

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.

Here are five works from MoMA’s collection representing the flowers, as well as the showers, that come with spring.

February 11, 2011 | Five for Friday

Five for Friday: Valentine’s Day—Love Ain’t Always What You Expect

Posted by Rebecca Stokes, INSIDE/OUT

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.

With Valentine’s Day just a few days off (thank you, Hallmark and Tiffany’s, for the e-mail reminders), we thought a look at some love- and not-quite-so-love-themed works in the collection was in order. Enjoy, and happy Valentine’s Day!

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