Matthew McConaughey & DIY Vermeer
This week, Kurt Andersen talks with Matthew McConaughey, who set out to transform his career with a string of dark, thorny roles. He just won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Oscar for his edgy...
View ArticleNew York Street Fight: MoMA Knocks Down Its Next-Door Neighbor
Last May, we reported on a story in which it seemed David had triumphed over Goliath. David was a quirky, acclaimed jewel box of a building in midtown Manhattan — the former American Folk Art Museum —...
View ArticleRediscovering Bert Williams
100 years ago, Bert Williams was one of the most famous performers in America. Like a lot of performers at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, Williams performed in blackface,...
View ArticleBjörk's Brave New Musical World
For the last two decades, Björk has pushed every boundary she could find, making just about the weirdest pop music that can still be considered pop music. She’s made beautiful, soulful songs out of...
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High-Art Skateboards for a Good Cause
The artist Paul McCarthy is famous for his provocative sculptures –– like that giant butt plug he dropped on Paris last year. Now he's trying his hand at a different medium, the skateboard. As decks...
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The Return of Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono’s late husband, John Lennon, called her “the world’s most famous unknown artist.” Ono appeared on most Americans’ radar in 1968 as Lennon’s girlfriend. As a young teen, Kurt Andersen knew Ono...
View ArticleArt Talk - Museum Lines: Popular or Painful?
Call it the most popular rain in town.The Rain Room at the Museum of Modern Art is the art sensation of the summer, with people standing on line up to eight hours to enter the installation. And at the...
View ArticleArt Talk: MoMA's Mea Culpa to Hopper and O'Keefe
Edward Hopper and Georgia O’Keeffe are considered some of the best American artists of the 20th century. But it was not easy to find their work at the Museum of Modern Art. At least not until now.MoMA...
View ArticleWeekend Staff Picks: Magritte, Watson and T-Shirts
Here are some of the events our WNYC colleagues are checking out around town.BROOKE GLADSTONE, host and managing editor of On the Media: A lover of art since a cathartic experience of seeing an exhibit...
View Article"Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary” at MoMA
Curator Anne Umland talks about the life and work of surrealist painter Rene Magritte. The exhibition “Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary” is on view at MoMA through January 12. Although he was...
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Gauguin’s Prints Are Sexy, Too
French painter Paul Gauguin quit his stockbroker’s job and left his wife and five children to move to the South Pacific island of Tahiti. There, in the 1890s, he did his famous, lush paintings of local...
View ArticleMoMA Director Glenn Lowry on Expanding the Collection, Audience, and Building
Glenn D. Lowry, director of The Museum of Modern Art, talks about the museum’s transformation over the past two decades and its place in the cultural landscape of New York and the world.Lowry said that...
View ArticleHow Iris Barry Saw Film as Art
Iris Barry was one of the first intellectuals to treat film as an art form, appreciating its far-reaching, transformative power. She founded the Museum of Modern Arts’ film department and became its...
View ArticleRetail Pioneers
This panel explores partnerships between culture and commerce, such as MoMA’s link-up with Uniqlo and their recent partnership with Kickstarter. We'll also look at exciting new possibilities with...
View ArticleKeynote from Maker Media's Sherry Huss
Sherry Huss, a Vice President at Maker Media, gives a keynote speech at the Remix Summit at the Museum of Modern Art.WNYC is podcasting all the speeches given at the Remix Summit, held in New York City...
View ArticleCreating 'Passion Brands'
The creative and cultural sectors are responsible for the most exciting and inspirational content and experiences being produced today. How do we leverage this position of strength to create brands and...
View ArticleA Keynote From the Director of MoMA
Glen D. Lowry, Director of the Museum of Modern Art, gives a keynote address at the Remix Summit at the museum.WNYC is podcasting all the speeches from the Remix Summit, held in New York City on...
View ArticleNo Boundaries
Fabien Riggall set up Future Shorts in 2003 to create a platform for innovative new filmmakers to preview their work. His passion and vision has driven the festival to become the biggest film network...
View ArticleThe Art of Technicolor
MoMA film curator Josh Siegel and writer James Layton discuss MoMA’s summer film exhibition,“Glorious Technicolor: From George Eastman House and Beyond,” which celebrates the 100th anniversary of...
View ArticleGig Alert: Tei Shi
ARTIST: Tei ShiGIG: Thursday night at MoMAArgentinian-born musician Tei Shi did her growing up all over: Bogota, Vancouver, Boston. She now resides in Brooklyn -- but her music video for her song “See...
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Picasso, Like You've Never Seen Before
Think you know Picasso? Think again.A new exhibit opening Monday, September 14, at the Museum of Modern Art presents approximately 140 sculptures by the Pablo Picasso created over the course of his...
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Picasso's Life in 3D at MoMA
Ann Temkin, MoMA’s Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, and Anne Umland, MoMA’s Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Curator of Painting and Sculpture, discuss the new exhibit...
View ArticleDevoid of the Holiday Spirit, Selling Christmas Trees
Charles Poekel discusses the film he wrote, directed, and produced, "Christmas, Again," alongside the featured actor Kentucker Audley. Audley plays Noel, a Christmas tree vendor in Brooklyn just...
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Review: Edgar Degas’s Fingerpaintings
Of all the French Impressionists, Edgar Degas is generally viewed as the most conservative. Unlike Monet and the rest of the clan, who set up their easels in the verdant out-of-doors and recorded the...
View ArticleCharting Migration Through Art and Geography
Some 500 people may have died in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea last week, as refugees left Libya with the goal of reaching Italy. But one of the challenges of addressing Europe's migrant crisis...
View ArticleA Journalist Disrupts Start-Up Culture, Artist Roz Chast on her Iconic 'New...
Dan Lyons takes us inside HubSpot, and the wild world of youth-centric, content driven start-up culture. New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast talks about her life, art and “Cartoon Memoirs,” an exhibit of...
View ArticleHow Do You Move a Priceless Work of Art?
Jim Coddington, Chief Conservator at the Museum of Modern Art, and Stefanii Atkins, Head Registrar at MoMA, along with Aileen Chuk, Head Registrar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art give us a...
View ArticleFamily of Man
In the 1950s, Edward Steichen of the Museum of Modern Art wanted to say something about the world. He said it, as Sara Fishko tells us, with a photo exhibit that made history. In this edition of Fishko...
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MoMa Adds Emojis to its Permanent Collection
The Museum of Modern Art in New York is adding emojis to its permanent collection.These aren't the emojis you know and love — MoMA has acquired the original set of 176 pictographs designed in 1999 by...
View ArticleMarina Abramović Is Present
Renowned performance artist Marina Abramović and author of Walk Through Walls: A Memoir (Crown Archetype, 2016), talks about her life and work, from her childhood in the Balkans through her personal...
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A Mid-Century Look at the American Film Industry
MoMA asks, Does the Public Get What it Wants? In this 1950 symposium, the Film Department at the Museum of Modern Art invites stars, producers, distributors, critics, and the audience to consider the...
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Review: The Rich Dadaist
Francis Picabia’s career has long been split into opposing halves. He was one of the founders of the Dada movement in the years following World War I, and his early paintings and drawings were...
View Article20th Century American Slapstick at MoMA
Jonathan Capehart guest hosts today!Co-curators Ben Model and Steve Massa join us to talk about “Cruel and Unusual Comedy: Astonishing Shorts from the Slapstick Era,” the fifth edition of MoMA’s Cruel...
View ArticleThe Problems With Bail, Vince Giordano, & Do You Really Know Your Body?
Jonathan Capehart guest hosts!Peter Goldberg from the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund, Gabriel Sayegh co-director of the #CLOSERikers campaign and Wes Caines, a board member of Brooklyn Community Bail...
View ArticleCelebrating the Iconic Bruce Lee
Over 40 years after his death, actor, martial artist and filmmaker Bruce Lee remains an icon of international cinema. La Frances Hui, associate curator at the Department of Film at MoMA, joins us to...
View ArticleSouth Bronx Murder Rates, Paul Auster, Celebrating Bruce Lee
New York Times police bureau chief Al Baker and reporter Ben Mueller join us to discuss their ongoing “Murder in the 4-0” series, which looks at the life and death of each person murdered in the 40th...
View ArticleGrowing up in Internment Camps
Filmmaker Emiko Omori joins us to discuss a retrospective of her films at MoMA titled, “Emiko Omori Retrospective: Rabbit in the Moon.” Omori is a Japanese-American woman who grew up in an internment...
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After filming the effects of nationalism in Europe, this artist has a message...
A counter-protester appears at a protest by the far-right Workers’ Party of Social Justice (DSSS) in Duchcov, Czech Republic, on June 22, 2013. Screenshot from film by Tomáš RafaBefore you see artist...
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Review: Robert’s Rules of Disorder
The best museum show in New York right now is “Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends,” at the Museum of Modern Art. It re-acquaints us with one of the deities of post-war American art. Rauschenberg, who...
View ArticlePresenting: A Piece of Work
Yes, she’s the hilarious co-creator of Comedy Central’s “Broad City.” But before discovering her gift for comedy, Abbi Jacobson went to art school. Now she’s getting a refresher on everything from...
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#1 Hannibal Buress Really Wants to Touch the Art
Does art have to be beautiful, or can everyday stuff be made into art too? Abbi Jacobson brings her friend comedian Hannibal Buress to look at sculptures by Dada and Surrealist artists, who upended the...
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#2: Tavi Gevinson Wonders When It’s Done
When you look at abstract art, what are you supposed to see among all those splatters and blobs? Abbi sorts out her feelings about Jackson Pollock’s monumental action paintings with a little help from...
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#3: How Questlove Learned to Love Silence
Ahmir Thompson (a.k.a. Questlove of The Roots) is a very busy dude. He was feeling stretched thin, until he discovered the power of silence to let his creativity cut through the noise. To help him find...
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#4: Samantha Irby Gets High on Light
Abbi brings her friend the hilarious essayist Samantha Irby to MoMA PS1 to see one of the trippiest works they’ve ever experienced: “Meeting” by James Turrell. Turrell’s work is immersive,...
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#5: Minimalism to the Max
Some artworks seem crazy simple -- like a stack of metal boxes or a group of white paintings. Minimalism rejected the idea that art should express the artist’s feelings or depict the visible world, or...
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#6: If It’s Got Naked People, RuPaul Is In
A dozen dancers rolling around in their underwear, rubbing raw chickens and fish on each other. No, it’s not some weird ‘60s porn, it’s a performance -- Abbi talks with the feminist artist behind the...
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#7: You’ve Got to Watch This!
Way before viral videos, since the invention of the medium in the 1960s, artists have made video to critique the culture around them. Howardena Pindell delivers a direct-to-camera account of the racism...
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#8: Andy Warhol’s Art of Self-Promotion
Andy Warhol’s “Campbell’s Soup Cans” has got to be one of the most famous images of the 20th century. But at the time, Warhol’s use of advertising and imagery from consumer culture was super...
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#9: Questlove Hearts Emojis
Emojis, video games, even the humble “@” symbol -- all these staples of digital life have been as carefully designed as the most sleek furniture or fancy architecture. But do they belong in a museum?...
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#10: The Writing on the Wall
There are new paintings and drawings by Sol LeWitt being made all the time -- even though the artist died in 2007. That’s possible because LeWitt’s wrote instructions for creating his works art, for...
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