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July 11, 2012 | Collection & Exhibitions, MoMA PS1

Meet Wendy

Posted by Matthias Hollwich, Co-principal, HWKN Marc Kushner, Co-principal, HWKN

HWKN’s Wendy, winning design of Young Architects Program 2012. Image courtesy of HWKN. © Iwan Baan

Our project for the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program is about redefining the boundaries of architecture. It is a proactive participant in the city’s ecology thanks to a skin that collects NO2 from the air—to the equivalent of taking 260 cars off of the road.

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 5, 2012 | Collection & Exhibitions, Design

A Child’s Chair: Delight in Ownership

Posted by Pamela Popeson, Department Preparator, Department of Architecture and Design

Gerrit Rietveld. “Beugel” Child’s Chair. c.1928. Manufacturer: Metz & Co. Gift of Jo Carole Lauder

Growing up I had my own kid-sized chair that I absolutely loved. It was made of wood, with a convertible slatted back that could swivel up for sitting or down for stepping up.

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

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 24, 2012 | Collection & Exhibitions

Prayer Companion: Keeping Prayer Pertinent in the Digital Age

Posted by Pamela Popeson, Department Preparator, Department of Architecture and Design

Market Buzz: Digesting Euro Turmoil……….Monsters laughed during gang rape……….Regime bulldozers pave space for Euro vision……….I feel everything will be okay……….EU to cash in on Libya………..Somali radio reporter murdered………..Dancers urge action on anorexia………..

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.

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