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May 25, 2012 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions

Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I–XVIII

Posted by Roxana Marcoci, Curator, Department of Photography

In the video interview above, American photographer Taryn Simon talks about her powerful four-year project A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I–XVIII (2008–11), currently on view at The Museum of Modern Art.

May 14, 2012 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions, Publications

Cindy Sherman and John Waters: A Conversation

Posted by Makiko Wholey, Department Coordinator, Department of Publications

Cover of the publication Cindy Sherman by Eva Respini. 2012. The Museum of Modern Art, New York

As an admirer of both Cindy Sherman and John Waters, I was happy to see a conversation between the artists included in Cindy Sherman, the exhibition catalogue accompanying the Museum’s major retrospective of the artist’s work.

May 10, 2012 | Artists, Behind the Scenes, Collection & Exhibitions

Installing Ellsworth Kelly’s Sculpture for a Large Wall

Posted by Cara Manes, Collection Specialist, Department of Painting and Sculpture

If you’ve visited the Museum in the past few months, you may have seen the special installation of F-111, the massive 23-panel painting that artist James Rosenquist made to wrap around the four walls of the Leo Castelli Gallery

May 4, 2012 | Artists, Five for Friday

Five for Friday: Mexican Muralists on Cinco de Mayo

Posted by Bonnie Mackay, Director of Creative and Marketing, the MoMA Stores

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.

April 26, 2012 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions, Videos

Diego Rivera and the Rockefellers

Posted by Jodi Roberts, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture

Rivera’s partnership with the Rockefeller family continues to be one of the most intriguing artist/patron relationships of the 20th century. The research we completed for the exhibition Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art offered the chance to take a closer look at this unlikely collaboration

April 18, 2012 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions, Print/Out

Print/Out: General Idea

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

General Idea. Magi© Bullet. 1992. Installation of custom-shaped Mylar balloons, dimensions variable with installation. Edition: three. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Mark Krayenhoff. © 2012 General Idea. Installation view of Print/Out at The Museum of Modern Art, 2012. Photo: John Wronn

“Visitors are invited to take balloons that have floated to the ground.”

Now that’s a label you don’t typically see on the walls of a museum! Magi© Bullet (1992), by the Canadian artist’s group General Idea, is an installation of silver helium balloons that fills the ceiling of an exhibition space.

April 4, 2012 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions, Print/Out

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.

April 2, 2012 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions

Drawing Back the Curtain: David Hammons in Printin’

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

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.

March 30, 2012 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions, Film

Cindy Sherman on the Films in Carte Blanche: Cindy Sherman

Posted by Lucy Gallun, Assistant Curator, 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 </i>Carte Blanche: Cindy Sherman</a> 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.</small>

March 29, 2012 | Artists, Behind the Scenes

Celebrating Tibor Kalman and 20 Years of Blue Skies

Posted by Bonnie Mackay, Director of Creative and Marketing, the MoMA Stores

Tibor Kalman and Emanuela Frattini Magnusson. Sky Umbrella. 1992

In 1992 the MoMA Design Store introduced a new umbrella to its product mix. The umbrella’s exterior gave away nothing more than a simple black canopy with a classic wooden handle. Once opened, however, a cheerful blue sky dotted with fluffy white clouds was revealed, causing delight on even the rainiest of days.

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