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Is New York Still a Home for Artists? Or My Home... So to Speak?

Kalup Linzy | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Justin Davidson, New York Art Scene, Tom Sachs, Glenn Ligon, Kalup Linzy, Public Theatre, Brooklyn Museum, Gabriel Kahane, Christies, Wangechi Mutu, Jerry Saltz, Thelma Golden, Amy Larocca, Emma Straub, Sanford Biggers, Glenn Lowry, Moma, Romare Bearden, Damian Woetzel, Jeremy McCarter, Amy Cappellazzo, Henry Louis Gates, Kurt Andersen, Studio Museum in Harlem, Young Jean Lee, Video, Arts News
Kalup Linzy

Unlike my early days in New York, I no longer roam the boroughs attending opening after opening, party after party, all night conversations in some random artist loft/apartment/space (the after after party). It sounds great because it was great. It was also more distracting than inspiring.

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Poetry Is Everywhere With 'Dial-A-Poem'

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Frank O'Hara, Video, John Giorno, John Cage, Structuralism, Dial-a-Phone, Poets, Museum of Modern Art, Moma, Allen Ginsberg, Poetry, Poem, Ecstatic Alphabet/ Heaps of Language, David Byrne, Arts News

A new installation at the Museum of Art in New York, titled, "Dial-a-Poem" brings ecstatic poetry to you online or over the phone at any time of the d...

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MoMA Wants Your Junk (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Meta Monumental Garage, Garage Sale, New York Museum of Modern Art, New York Around Town, NY Around Town, Martha Rosler, Museum of Modern Art, Moma, New York News

Attention New York City hoarders, packrats and anyone doing a little spring cleaning: there's a place where they'll turn your extra junk into art, you...

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Mario Bellini on His Latest Projects (VIDEO)

Crane.tv | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Architect, Mario Bellini, Cassina, Italian, Fiat, Lighting, Car Design, Lancia, Compasso D'oro, Contemporary, Islamic Art, Designer, crane.tv, Exhibition, Furniture, New York, Architecture, Vitra, Moma, Rudy Ricciotti, Flo, Pei, Tokyo, Cour Visconti, Brionvega, Louvre, B&b Italia, Yamaha, Japan, Erco, Olivetti, Museum, Video, Arts News
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Are We Living In Kraftwerk's World?

Michael Hogan | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Slidewide, Electoronica, Kraftwerk, Afrika Bambaataa, Electronic Dance Music, Electronic Music, Coachella, Kraftwerk Moma, Rolf Hutter, Moma, Fatboy Slim, Edm, Entertainment News
Michael Hogan

Are we living in the future that Kraftwerk once imagined?

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Changing Faces: The Transformational Power of Makeup

Napoleon Perdis | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Style News, Women, Anti-Aging, Contouring, Cindy Sherman, Contemporary Art, Makeup, Moma, Beauty, Eyebrows, New York Around Town, Style News
Napoleon Perdis

Contemporary artist Cindy Sherman is a woman who has manipulated makeup to her advantage in her work. Her retrospective features a staggering array of images Sherman created by dressing as women of every age and from every conceivable era.

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Kraftwerk Takes To The Stage

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Massara | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Kraftwerk, Sold Out, Video, German Music, Electronic Music, Kraftwerk Moma, Slidewide, Klaus Biesenbach, Moma, New York, Performance, Arts News

This week is a hard one for Kraftwerk fans. Only 450 tickets were available to the general public for each night of the German band's concert series a...

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Cindy Sherman Just Blew My Mind

Christopher Herz | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Cindy Sherman Moma, Moma, Models, Cindy Sherman, Photography, New York Things to Do, Gallery Show, Amazing Photography, NY Around Town, New York Around Town, NY Arts, Arts News
Christopher Herz

How much of ourselves truly exists beneath our outfits, make-up, haircuts and other projections of who we want to be seen as?

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Movies: MOMA Has The Right Stuff (And Unbearable Lightness)

Michael Giltz | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Nasa, Philip Kaufman, Museum of Modern Art, Moma, Movies, The Unbearable Lightness of Being Film, The Right Stuff Film, Film Adaptations, The Right Stuff, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Video, Culture News
Michael Giltz

No matter how big my TV may be, no matter how good my BluRay player or DVD copy, The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Right Stuff are films I want to experience in a darkened theater with a live audience. It's been well over a decade and I can't wait to see them again.

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Book Signing at the Lever House on April 26: The First Paula Hayes' Monograph Published

Melanie Courbet | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Richard Marshall, The Monacelli Press, Land Mind, Paula Hayes, Moma, Melanie Courbet, Museum of Modern Art, Marianne Boesky, Lever House, Arts News
Melanie Courbet

Her work reflects the beautiful interdependence and the fragile relationship between humans and nature. Each piece is a meticulous and harmonious composition of living organisms, curated by the artist.

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Chris Jordan : A Bold Light Artist Hits Iconic Icelandic Church

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Steven Tsai, Noa Younse, Thessia Machado, Guðjón Samúelsson Raghul Sridharan, Coco Karol, Steven P. Harrington, Iceland, Azmi Mert Erdem, Chris Jordan, Reykjavik, For a Minor Reflection, Seej, Jaime Rojo, Andrea Dart, Reykjavik Winter Lights Festival 2012, Hallgrímskirkja Church, Marcos Zotes, Baruch College, Bring to Light NYC, Cj, Statue of Liberty, The Chelsea Museum, Enki, Times Square, The New Museum, The Museum of Natural History, Moma, The Whitney, New York University, Arts News
Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington

It's not that light artist Chris Jordan didn't find the sweeping supersonic jet-shaped façade of the church inspiring. He just wanted to make it visi...

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See Tomorrow's Big Filmmakers Today

Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Wim Wenders, New Films/New Directors, Video, Filmmaking, Steven Spielberg, Lincoln Center, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Spike Lee, Film, Moma, Filmmaker, Cinema, Arts News

"New Directors/New Films" has sparked the careers of some of today's biggest filmmakers: Steven Spielberg, Wim Wenders and Spike Lee, for instance, al...

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'The Abramovic Method' Will Change How You See

Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Stanislavski Method, Abramovic Performance Art, Video, Marina Abramovic, Moma the Artist Is Present, Rem Koolhaas, Performance Art, The Abramovic Method, Moma, Museum of Modern Art, Female Artists, Arts News

Marina Abramovic, dubbed the "grandmother of performance art," is a Serbian artist who has been participating in physically and emotionally demanding ...

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What Makes for Compelling Museum Websites? When to Break the Rules

Lilia Ziamou | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Museum Website Design, Moma, Neue Galerie, Nyc, Nyc Museums, Museum Websites, Arts News
Lilia Ziamou

MoMA has created unique websites for special exhibitions, called subsites. Observing these subsites allows one to extract some general principles for website design in the museum context.

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Cruel and Unusual Comedy?

Sheril Antonio | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Moma, Comedy, Silent Clowns Film Series, Film Exhibitions, Ben Model, Silent Films, Arts News
Sheril Antonio

Ben Model, a musician and a preservationist in his own right, has made this his life's work and excels at it.

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Look at Your Neighborhood

Karen Kubey | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Architecture, Moma, Housing Crisis, Moma Architecture Models, Suburbs Architecture, Moma New York, Arts News
Karen Kubey

Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream recently opened at the Museum of Modern Art, featuring new housing design proposals. But if you spend too much time staring at the show's fancy architectural models, you may miss the curators' point.

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Cindy Sherman Retrospective To Hella Bitter Party: What To Do In New York This Weekend

Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: New York Weekend, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY Around Town, Gertrude Stein, Moma, New York Events, New York News

The Steins Collection Where: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Avenue; (212) 535-7710 When: Till June 3 Price: $25 suggested donation The Metro...

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Insightful Photo Portraits by Dutch Master in Retrospective at SFMOMA

Leo Stutzin | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Photography, Portraiture, Rineke Dijkstra Retrospective, Modern Art, Dijkstra, Sfmoma, San Francisco, Dutch Master, Dijkstra Portraiture Exhibit, Moma, MOMA Photography Exhibits, San Francisco News
Leo Stutzin

To look at Rineke Dijkstra's images of a teen-aged girl on a beach or a Portuguese bullfighter who has just emerged from the ring is to see the subject. The person in front of the camera is all that matters, not the person who released the shutter.

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Thoughts on MoMA's Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream

Guy Horton | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Architecture, U.S. Economy, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Economic Crisis, Suburbs, Moma Foreclosure, Moma, Arts News
Guy Horton

Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream is part of MoMA's Issues in Contemporary Architecture series, in which five architects-in-residence were challenged to "engage in a rethinking of housing... that could catalyze urban transformation."

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Robots Ate All The Kraftwerk Tickets For MoMA Shows

Posted 02.24.2012

Read More: Kraftwerk, Ticket Scalpers, New York Around Town, NY Around Town, Kraftwerk Moma, Museum of Modern Art, Moma, Showclix, Video, New York News

Remember the announcement that Kraftwerk were going to do an 8 night stint at the Museum of Modern Art? And how excited everyone was? Well, unsurp...

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The Many Faces Of Cindy Sherman

Posted 02.24.2012

Read More: Photography, Postmodern Photography, Video, Postmodernism, Cindy Sherman Retrospective, Cindy Sherman, Museum of Modern Art, Moma, Female Artists, Arts News

Cindy Sherman's photographs are anonymous autobiographies. By taking on the roles of author, director, make-up artist, hairstylist, wardrobe mistress ...

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AGENDA: Sleigh Bells, Williamsburg Fashion, And The Muppets

Posted 02.17.2012

Read More: Union Hall, NY Around Town, Brooklyn Events, American Museum of Natural History, New York Around Town, New York Weekend, Moma, New York Events, New York News

Williamsburg Fashion Weekend Where: Glasslands, 289 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn; (718) 599-1450 When: Friday, 8PM Price: $10 As Anna Wintour and her sty...

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Kraftwerk To Electrify MoMA For 8 Consecutive Evenings

Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: NY Around Town, Kraftwerk, Musem of Modern Art, Moma, German Music, NY Events, New York Art, New York News

Fans of electro, robotic tunes are rejoicing with news that Kraftwerk will be performing eight consecutive nights at the Museum of Modern Art for a ne...

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It's Design Thursday!

Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Ridge House, Bill Bush, Video, Whitney Houston, Wendy, la.artweek, Dubai Fountain, Design Thursdays, Design, Whitney Houston Tribute, Transparency Grenade, Moma, Arts News

HuffPost Arts is excited to bring you this week's edition of Design Thursday, where form and function get funky! This week we have an unexpected spy g...

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Die for Art; Art to Die for

Edward Goldman | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: De Kooning, Moma, Susan and Larry Marx, Alina Szapocznikow, Sculpture, Hammer Museum, Arts News
Edward Goldman

Knowing about the drama and tragedy of her life, one simply cannot help but see her art through the prism of her personal story. It is obvious that towards the end of her short life, her art was getting stronger and more daring.

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