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July 18, 2012 | Artists, Fluxus

Unpacking Fluxus: The Unruly Stamp

Posted by Allison Tepper, 12-Month Fluxus Intern, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books

A postage stamp is a small, government-issued square of paper adhered to mail in order to enable its circulation. An artist’s stamp, in the simplest of terms, is an object that is related to a postage stamp in either its form or content, but which does not necessarily help deliver a letter.

July 17, 2012 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions

Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language: A Q&A with Dexter Sinister, Part 2

Posted by Eleonore Hugendubel, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting of Sculpture

Today’s post is a continuation of a Q&A with Dexter Sinister, the artist collective that contributed to the exhibition Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language (on view until August 27). In the previous post, they discussed their contribution to the show: the third issue of their journal Bulletins of The Serving Library doubling as the exhibition catalogue, plus a trailer. Here is the next part of the conversation…

July 12, 2012 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions

Surface and Light: Liz Deschenes

Posted by Lucy Gallun, Assistant Curator, Department of Photography

Moiré (from a French textile description) occurs when two patterns (meshes, concentric rings, grids, etc.) are overlaid, creating visual interference at their intersections.

July 11, 2012 | Artists, Behind the Scenes, Collection & Exhibitions

Fritz Haeg on His Project for MoMA Studio: Common Senses

Posted by Fritz Haeg, Artist

Panorama view of Domestic Integrity Field Part A-1 by artist Fritz Haeg, in MoMA’s Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. Photo courtesy of Fritz Haeg

In conjunction with MoMA’s upcoming exhibition Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000, MoMA’s Department of Education presents MoMA Studio: Common Senses, a multisensory environment at the intersection of education, design, and art

July 4, 2012 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions

Happy Independence Day from MoMA

Posted by Jason Persse, Editorial Manager, Marketing and Communications

Jasper Johns. Flags I. 1973. Screenprint, 27 3/8 x 35 1/4″ (69.5 x 89.5 cm). Publisher: the artist and Simca Print Artists Inc., New York. Printer: Simca Print Artists Inc., New York. Edition: artist’s proof before the edition of 65. Gift of Barbara Bertozzi Castelli, New York, 2011. © 2012 Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York

In celebration of the Fourth of July, here’s an oh-so-appropriate recent acquisition to MoMA’s collection. Jasper Johns’s screenprint Flags I (1973) is currently on view in the exhibition New to the Print Collection: Matisse to Bourgeois</a>,

July 2, 2012 | Artists, Behind the Scenes, Collection & Exhibitions

Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language: A Q&A with Dexter Sinister, Part 1

Posted by Eleonore Hugendubel, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting of Sculpture

Dexter Sinister (David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey). Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language. 2012. Exhibition catalogue (cover), 224 pages plus insert, edited with Angie Keefer. With 13 “bulletins” by Andrew Blum, Pierre-André Boutang, Chris Evans, Angie Keefer, Bruno Latour, Louis Lüthi, Graham Meyer, Francis McKee, David Reinfurt, Dexter Sinister, Ian Svenonius, Benjamin Tiven, and Jessica Winter, and an essay by Laura Hoptman. Courtesy The Serving Library

Dexter Sinister (David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey) is an artist team whose practice collapses the often discrete activities of designing, editing, publishing, and distributing books and journals, both printed and in digital form.

June 14, 2012 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions

Endless Anagrams: Hans Bellmer and Anna Gaskell’s Imaginary Conversation

Posted by Samantha Friedman, Assistant Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints

In organizing the third-floor Drawings collection exhibition Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration, I opted to create groupings based on artists’ common strategies and themes rather than chronology.

June 7, 2012 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions

Christian Marclay: Sound on Paper

Posted by Lotte Johnson, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings and Prints

Sound forms the nucleus of much of American artist Christian Marclay’s practice. From innovative sound collages, with turntables and records employed as instruments; to the splicing and reconstituting of physical records to create strange, jumping concoctions of melodies

June 6, 2012 | Artists, Events & Programs

Re-experiencing Frank O’Hara’s MoMA Lunch Breaks

Posted by Stefania Heim, poet

Frank O'Hara. Photo by Kenward Elmslie

In a classroom on the Lower East Side where I teach poetry writing to eighth-graders, two headlines preside over separate bulletin boards. One says: “What poets do.”

May 31, 2012 | Artists, Events & Programs

An Invitation to See

Posted by Francesca Rosenberg, Director of Community, Access, and School Programs

MoMA educator Larissa Bailiff leads an Art inSight program. Photo: Kirsten Schroeder

At MoMA we strive to enable all visitors to find meaning and pleasure in modern and contemporary art. This includes people who are blind or have low vision, who are able to enjoy the Museum’s collection and special exhibitions via touch and visual description through Touch Tours

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