Special Guest: Paola Antonelli
Kurt Andersen and Paola Antonelli look at the how materials shape the way artists and designers work.Paola Antonelli is a curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern...
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Paola Antonelli is a curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and a noted authority on design. The exhibitions she has developed include "Mutant...
View ArticleDesign for the Real World: PDA
Design curator Paola Antonelli on the fall of Apple's Newton handheld computer, the rise of the Palm, and what makes a great "personal digital assistant" tick.
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MoMA's Chicken Coup
Be careful what you wish for. New York's MoMA thought it had commissioned a group of artists and architects to create a farm in the courtyard of it's Queens outpost, P.S.1. And on opening day they...
View ArticleMatthew 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 ArticleEmpire State Flashback
As part of our Empire Tweets Back project—in which we watch all eight hours of Andy Warhol's film "Empire"—we did a little rooting around in the WNYC and Museum of Modern Art archives to see what we...
View ArticlePicasso's Guitars
Anne Umland, curator at the Museum of Modern Art, discusses the exhibition “Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914.” It brings together two guitars Picasso created—one out of cardboard, paper, string, and wire,...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
Eye-popping German Expressionism, racy underground comix, the found object as found object, vintage works that aren't and a photographic chronicle of New York's avant-garde in the 1960s. It's a good...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
Fantastical dresses at the Met, heady conceptualism at MoMA, early 20th-century masters at the Jewish Museum, and stacks of posters for the taking at a SoHo Gallery. Also, did we mention it's New York...
View ArticleFolk Art Museum to Sell Building to MoMA
The past week has been a tumultuous one for the American Folk Art Museum. First, it announced last Tuesday that its executive director, Maria Ann Conelli, would step down to take a job in academia....
View ArticleDas Art: Volkswagen and MoMA Forge Partnership
The auto juggernaut Volkswagen (VW) and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), along with its edgier Long Island City sister institution PS1, announced a two-year partnership on Monday. The German auto...
View ArticleBarbès Selects Off-Beat World Musicians to Play MoMA Nights
For the fourth year in a row, The Museum of Modern Art and Olivier Conan, owner of the popular Brooklyn music venue Barbès, have put together a series of early evening concerts called MoMA Nights,...
View ArticleAmerican Painter Cy Twombly Dies at 83
Cy Twombly, the artist and painter whose sketchy, scribbly style innovated and challenged the art world has died at age 83 in Rome. Twombly lived in New York in the 1950's and was a contemporary of...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
Dancing on ladders in the Meatpacking District, more than half a century of urban redevelopment at MoMA, European artists showing naughty bits on the Lower East Side and architectural sculpture meets...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
Technology that begs to be played with at MoMA, punk graphics at Steven Kasher, carved characters at the Morgan Library and redecorated airplane nose cones out in the Hamptons. Here's what's on our...
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