In the audio slideshow above, photographer Shirana Shahbazi talks about her stunning site-specific installation in MoMA’s New Photography 2012 exhibition.
Posts in ‘Collection & Exhibitions’
October 15, 2012
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Artists,
Collection & Exhibitions
New Photography 2012: Zoe Crosher
In the audio slideshow above, photographer Zoe Crosher talks about the wall installation from her ongoing series The Michelle duBois Project, currently on view in MoMA’s New Photography 2012 exhibition.
October 11, 2012
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Artists,
Collection & Exhibitions
Painted Buildings for the Record
Jason Crum. Project for a Painted Wall, New York City, New York. Perspective. 1969. Gouache on photograph. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase, 1969
In The Realm of Ideas Frank Lloyd Wright called architecture “the truest record of Life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.”
October 11, 2012
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Collection & Exhibitions
Boy Meets Wall: Hanging Out with Jens S Jensen
Jens S Jensen. Boy on the Wall, Hammarkullen, Gothenburg. 1973. Gelatin silver print, 9 7/16 x 11 3/4″ (24 x 29.8 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the artist. © 2012 Jens S. Jensen
The first major research trip we undertook for Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000 was, appropriately, through the historically child-centric Nordic countries. It was then, in 2009, that we first encountered Jens S Jensen’s 1973 photograph
October 9, 2012
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Artists,
Collection & Exhibitions
Yayoi Kusama’s Return to MoMA
Front page of the Daily News with a photograph of Kusama’s “Grand Orgy to Awaken the Dead” at MoMA, August 25, 1969
When The Museum of Modern Art undertook the exhibition Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958–1972 in 1998 we thought that we were giving this great artist her first exhibition at MoMA.
October 8, 2012
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Artists,
Collection & Exhibitions
New Photography 2012: Michele Abeles
Every year MoMA presents the exhibition New Photography, in an attempt to include the most interesting accomplishments of artists working in photography all over the world.
October 5, 2012
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Behind the Scenes,
Collection & Exhibitions
Frustrated? Confused? Have More Questions than Answers? Great!
A MoMA visitor examines Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel. (New York, 1951 [third version, after lost original of 1913]. Metal wheel mounted on painted wood stool. The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris/Estate of Marcel Duchamp)
Looking at modern and contemporary art can provoke a lot of questions. Struggling to understand or relate to it is not unusual, and in fact many artists view those reactions as part of the art. Marcel Duchamp famously said that “the creative act is not formed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.”
October 4, 2012
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Artists,
Collection & Exhibitions,
Film
Goldfinger: A Convergence at MoMA
Robert Brownjohn. Preparatory study for Goldfinger title sequence. 1964. Silver-gelatin print. Photograph by Herbert Spencer. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Don Goeman. © 2012 Eliza Brownjohn
The 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger is not only an exhilarating classic of the spy genre, but also a recurring influence in art and popular culture. During the month of October, visitors to MoMA can experience the Goldfinger phenomenon in a variety of distinct configurations.
October 3, 2012
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Collection & Exhibitions
“Finnish” Your Lunch
Lunch is served: this week we’re eating creamy salmon soup, crispy rye bread with Finnish cheese and butter, sweet and sour dill cucumbers, and whipped lingonberry porridge
MoMA exhibitions rarely end at the gallery doors. There are publications and websites, symposia, family programs, and special events that extend the life, the interactivity, and the scope of projects big and small.
October 2, 2012
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Artists,
Behind the Scenes,
Collection & Exhibitions,
Conservation,
Jackson Pollock Project
MoMA’s Jackson Pollock Conservation Project, Post 3: Documentation and Treatment
We left off in our last post having explained the research and assessment that precedes any conservation treatment. Using Echo as our object of study, we examined questions that arise after looking closely at a painting. Let’s delve into one such question.
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