MoMA Raises Ticket Prices due to Escalating Operating Costs
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) announced on Thursday that it would be raising its admission rates due to escalating operating costs. Beginning on September 1, ticket prices for adults will go from $20...
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Photographs that depict life at the fringes, art that is all about ugly, video in which the artist is present, and a film festival devoted to contemporary Latin American cinema. It may be August, but...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
A key member of New York’s Abstract Expressionist school gets a retrospective at MoMA, textiles get trippy at the Japan Society, caricature and satire get a thorough going-over at the Met and early...
View ArticleNew Exhibit Explores How We Talk to Objects
Whether you know it or not, you speak with objects every day. You put the coffee machine on and tell it to make the beverage you want, your cell phone rings and it lets you who's calling and you treat...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
A tribute to Romare Bearden, "portable" murals by Diego Rivera, an artist who reproduces the work of other artists, and the roots of documentary photography in New York. Plus: enough performance art to...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
Rethinking architecture during a time of recession, the myriad ways in which artists create prints, drawings that chart unusual histories, a feminist examination of war and abstract paintings that...
View ArticleKraftwerk at MoMA: The Hardest Ticket in Town to Get
Electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk began an eight-night residency at the Museum of Modern Art on Tuesday night.The seminal band presented its 1974 album Autobahn and surprised fans by also playing...
View ArticleKraftwerk: Man, Machine, Music
As German synthpop pioneers Kraftwerk perform a series of eight career-spanning concerts at the Museum of Modern Art, we examine the history of this pivotal force in electronic minimalism. Joining us...
View ArticleKraftwerk at MOMA
I saw Kraftwerk’s Saturday night concert at the Museum of Modern Art. It was the fifth night of eight, and the featured album was Computer World (1981); I picked that night because that’s my daughter...
View ArticleVIDEO - Culture Shock 1913 - Touring MoMA for Masterpieces from 1913
WNYC's Sara Fishko gets a private tour of some of the paintings and sculptures from 1913 in MoMA's collection, some on display and others unearthed from a storage closet. Her guide is Ann Temkin, the...
View ArticleVideo Games as Art? MoMA Thinks So
Pac-Man and Tetris will soon be among the collection at the Museum of Modern Art.MoMA says it's acquired fourteen video games for a new exhibit opening in March. Senior Curator Paola Antonelli says...
View ArticleMoMA's Glenn Lowry: Merging Music and Art
Glenn Lowry is the director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, which boasts a collection of more than 150,000 works. Its library and archives represent more than 70,000 artists. A passionate...
View ArticleInventing Abstraction at MoMA
Leah Dickerman, Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, talks about the exhibition “Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925.” Commemorating the centennial of invention...
View ArticleGreat Minds and Stellar Talents Consider the State of Modern Photography
"What Is Modern Photography?" is the question posed at this symposium hosted by the Museum of Modern Art's Edward Steichen. An all-star panel of photographers, including Margaret Bourke-White, Walker...
View ArticleWeekend Picks: Goddesses and Basketball
Here's how we'll be spending our weekend. We suggest you do the same.Business Editor Charlie Herman is heading to MOMA for an exhibit from photography's founding father of the modernist tradition. It's...
View Article'Hacktivists' Work on Software for Sandy Recovery and Future Disasters
Six months after Sandy struck much of the eastern Seaboard, a group of ‘hactktivists” are working out ways digital technology can improve the response to future disasters.Dozens of people from the...
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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