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MoMA Mixx Bringing Dance Parties To Museum Of Modern Art, Young Patrons

artinfo.com | Posted 12.21.2009 | New York

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This is the Museum of Modern Art's inaugural MoMA Mixx, a dance party held Sept. 26 with music chosen by an artist-DJ team and hosted by MoMA's Junior...

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El Museo del Barrio: Fifth Avenue on Fire

Jim Luce | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York

Read More: Uruguay, Puerto Rico, Agnes Gund, Central Park, Robert Motherwell, The Suicide of Dorothy Hale, El Barrio, Latin American Culture, Global Citizens, Peru, Carmen Ana Unanue Galleries, New Workers’ School Cycle, Yale University Press, Wilfredo Lam, Dominican Republic, Fifth Avenue, Metlife, Michael Bloomberg, On View - Voces Y Visiones, Miguel Sal, Mexico, Caribbean Culture, Miguel Covarrubias, Museum of the City of New York, Lenin, Brazil, JuliáN Zugazagoitia, Ecuador, Art, Frida Kahlo, Man at the Crossroads, Latino Culture, Diego Rivera, Cuba, Bolivia, Upper East Side, Salvador Dali, Thought Leaders, Henry Luce Foundation, Dorothy Hale, East Harlem, Michelle De Leon, Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, John Lee, El Museo Del Barrio, Rockefeller Center Mural, Raphael MontañEz Ortiz, Latino Traditions, Mexico City, Rockefeller Discovering the Rivera Murals, Rockefeller Family, Marcel Duchamp, Nexus New York - Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis, Elvira Moran, Chile, Terra Foundation for American Art, Daily Kos, Opponent of Fascism, Empire State Building, Deborah Cullen, Art Commission of the City of New York, American Avant-Garde, Museum of Modern Art, Museum Mile, TaíNo, Pre-Columbian, New York News

Forty years ago, El Museo del Barrio was a dream contained in a single classroom so far north that “sophisticated” Manhattanites would not...

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MOMA Tower, 82-Story Building, Approved By City Council

AP | Posted 10.29.2009 | New York

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NEW YORK — A proposal for a new 82-story tower next to the Museum of Modern Art has cleared its final hurdle. The New York City Council voted W...

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At the Tender Age of 39, Spike Jonze Receives a Retrospective at MoMA

Jane Levere | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York

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The centerpiece of the retrospective will be two special programs: Jonze will appear with author Maurice Sendak, and there will be an evening of skate videos where No Age will perform.

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Kieron Williamson: Is This 6-Year-Old the Next Picasso?

Reyne Haines | Posted 09.15.2009 | Style

Read More: Contemporary Art, Fine Art, Picasso, Museum of Modern Art, Painting, Kieron Williamson, England, Style News

Kieron Williamson, a 6-year-old British boy has talent. Working in watercolor, he paints wonderful scenes of harbors, landscapes and more.

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Just Like Andy Warhol, You Can Adorn a Museum of Modern Art Wall

David Finkle | Posted 09.11.2009 | New York

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Warhol will remain in place, but your chance to shout 'Catch me at MOMA" will evaporate. The opportunity you seized not only to look at art but to be art will be terminally turpentined away.

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MoMA's Glenn Lowry Earned $1.32M Last Year

Bloomberg | Philip Boroff | Posted 09.10.2009 | New York

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Aug. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Glenn D. Lowry earned $1.32 million in pay and benefits running New York's Museum of Modern Art in the year ending in June, dow...

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Culture in NYC ? Bring Lots of Cash

David Jones | Posted 08.08.2009 | Local

Read More: Poverty, Natural History Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, US Poverty, Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, Local News

Cultural institutions which used to be free or very low cost have increased their admission fees to make it virtually impossible for anyone but the upper middle class and wealthy from attending them.

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Media Elite Turn Out For Graydon Carter's Tony Blair Interview At MoMA (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Posted 07.25.2009 | Media

Tuesday night, Tony Blair answered questions from Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter at an A-list event at New York's Museum of Modern Art. The two discusse...

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Tim Burton To Get MoMA Exhibit

Variety | Posted 07.10.2009 | Entertainment

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The visually inventive filmmaker behind "Edward Scissorhands," "Batman" and "Sweeney Todd," among others, will be the subject of "Tim Burton," a major...

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Let the Arts Help Rebuild the Economy

Randall Bourscheidt | Posted 01.11.2009 | Living

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The Obama administration should devote a portion of the new jobs program to matching this local investment in the arts infrastructure. The immediate gain in jobs will lead to the long-term benefit of stronger communities.

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