MoMA | Tag: Contemporary Galleries: 1980

Posts tagged ‘Contemporary Galleries: 1980–Now’

November 15, 2013 | Collection & Exhibitions

Unwriting: Sarah Charlesworth

Posted by Lucy Gallun, Assistant Curator, Department of Photography

“This is real time, it is modern history in the making.”—Sarah Charlesworth on her work, Movie-Television-News-History, June 21, 1979

February 16, 2012 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions

A Few More Ways of Looking at a Keith Haring

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

Keith Haring. Untitled. 1982. Ink on two sheets of paper, sheet: 72 x 671 1/2" (182.9 x 1705.6 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the Estate of Keith Haring, Inc. © 2012 The Keith Haring Foundation

The monumental 1982 Keith Haring drawing Untitled is not often on view, so its inclusion in the Museum’s current installation Contemporary Galleries: 1980–Now seems like an ideal opportunity to think about how this artist’s iconic visual language fits into the larger story of 20th-century art.

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.

January 24, 2012 | Collection & Exhibitions, Design

Suited for Subversion…and Peace, Love, and Understanding

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

Ralph Borland. Suited for Subversion. 2002. Nylon-reinforced PVC, padding, speaker, and pulse reader. Fund for the Twenty-First Century. Photos by Ralph Borland and Pieter Hugo

Ralph Borland designed Suited for Subversion as a protest tool that could provide protection from police batons during protest events, and at the same time serve to creatively disarm any baton wielders that protesters might confront.