Museum of Modern Art

LOOK: MoMA Garden Party!

Posted 05.23.2012

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The art world's elite gathered for the MoMA's 2012 Party in the Garden fete on Tuesday evening, where celebs including Kim Catrall, a pantless Solange...

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PHOTOS: Solange Partying With Her Pants Off

Huffington Post | Julee Wilson | Posted 05.23.2012

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The pantless trend strikes again! Just days after Miley Cyrus stepped out in a bottomless look at the Billboard Music Awards, singer/model/DJ Sola...

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Poetry Is Everywhere With 'Dial-A-Poem'

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.22.2012

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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

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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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China's Super Rich Get Classy With Private Art Museums

AP | KELVIN CHAN | Posted 05.09.2012

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HONG KONG -- Over the past two years Wang Wei and her husband Liu Yiqian dropped a reported $317 million on their hobby. Now they need somewhere to di...

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

Michael Giltz | Posted 04.10.2012

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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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Cindy Sherman's "Circle of Influence"

Kalup Linzy | Posted 04.05.2012

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On March 26, I participated in the panel Cindy Sherman: Circle of Influence at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Organized and moderated by ...

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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

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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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'The Abramovic Method' Will Change How You See

Posted 03.21.2012

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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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Cindy Sherman as Orson Welles... as John Ford... as Vittorio De Sica... as Alfred Hitchcock... as...

G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.05.2012

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Looking For Cindy Sherman: A Retrospective At MoMA

Regina Weinreich | Posted 04.28.2012

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On the 6th floor of the Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman is just where you want her, everywhere.

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Thoughts on MoMA's Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream

Guy Horton | Posted 04.28.2012

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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

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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

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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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Kraftwerk Will Perform Live In MOMA Retropective

Posted 02.16.2012

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Electronic pioneers Kraftwerk emerged on the experimental music scene in the 1970s and radically changed how we view music and technology. Founded by ...

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What To Do This Weekend

Posted 01.27.2012

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Real Estate Where: K&K Super Buffet, 3-41 St. Nicholas Ave, Queens; (718) 381-7111 When: Saturday, 8PM Price: $5 Giant Chinese supermarket K&K Su...

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Do Blondes Have More Fun?

Posted 01.10.2012

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It's one thing to go to a museum and enjoy a new exhibition, but it can be a thousand times better if the exhibition is paired with music and performa...

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Diego Rivera Occupies MOMA

Bernard Starr | Posted 02.11.2012

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If you saw Diego Rivera's mural, Frozen Assets, on a poster at Zuccotti Park, you might have been tempted to see if the paint had dried, since the mural speaks so specifically to the moment and graphically grasps the heart and soul of Occupy Wall Street.

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Museums for Tolerance

Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson | Posted 02.06.2012

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The idea that art can broaden awareness of and exposure to "other" cultures is particularly well expressed in Los Angeles right now.

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Diego Rivera at MoMA Makes Us Ask, What Happened to the Radical Left in Art?

G. Roger Denson | Posted 01.18.2012

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Should Rivera be considered a patron saint of the Occupation movements, as some have alluded? Not quite.

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PICS: Crazy Prints, Chanel Galore On The MoMA Red Carpet

The Huffington Post | Jessica Misener | Posted 11.16.2011

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The A-listers broke out their bold patterns and most creative looks to celebrate Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar at the Chanel-sponsored Museum ...

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Remembering Adrienne Shelly

Andy Ostroy | Posted 01.01.2012

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On this day we celebrate Adrienne's life, her accomplishments and the legacy she's left behind. It is in her honor that I started the Adrienne Shelly Foundation with a singular mission: to support women filmmakers.

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India Plans Two Major Art Museums

The Art Newspaper | Posted 12.11.2011

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BIHAR. India's sub-standard state museum infrastructure is set to be enhanced by plans for a new museum in Bihar, east India, scheduled to open in 201...

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Art Dealer Arrested For $2 Million Of Fake Art

Posted 11.16.2011

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Is the signature on your Monet a little too legible? It could be a fake; word is they're going around. A former art dealer was arrested in South F...

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New York Chef Spends Vacation With South African Orphans

HuffingtonPost.com | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 10.24.2011

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Many people spend their summer vacations basking along sun-drenched beaches or traveling to exotic ports-of-call. But Lynn Bound wanted her holiday to...

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