Marina 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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