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...
View ArticlePicasso, 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...
View ArticlePicasso'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...
View ArticleReview: 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 Article225- Photo Credit
Founded by architect Walter Gropius in 1919, the Bauhaus school in Germany would go on to shape modern architecture, art, and design for decades to come. The school sought to combine design and...
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...
View ArticleMoMa 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...
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