Museum of Modern Art
The major American museum devoted to modern art.
- Contact Person:
- Address:
- 11 West 53 Street
- New York City NY, 10019-5497
- Phone:
- 212 708 9400
- Website:
- http://www.moma.org
228 BFA References to Museum of Modern Art
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The Heart Is Not a Metaphor at MoMA Fine Arts
Made Readymades by Robert Gober
By: - Dec 19th, 2014The merry Dada prankster Marcel Duchamp changed the definitions of art with his Found Objects, Ready Mades and Assisted Readymades. The Robert Gober show at MoMA requires a new category, Made Readymades.
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Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs Fine Arts
At MoMA through February 4
By: - Dec 15th, 2014During the busy holiday season The Museum of Modern Art is featuring the blockbuster exhibition of the artist’s triumphant and inventive last works Henri Matisse: The Cutouts. The exhibition drew some 500,000 visitors last summer to London’s Tate Modern.
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Figurative Expressionist Artist Jay Milder Fine Arts
Unblotting the Rainbow
By: - Nov 20th, 2014Jay Milder came of age during the Second Generation of the New York School as one of the seminal Figurative Expressionist painters and one of the SoHo loft pioneers. Today Milder's influence on painting is widespread and he has been cited as influence of both Neo-Expressionism in the United States and the graffiti art movement in Brazil.
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Boston Modern by Judith Bookbinder Fine Arts
Definitive Study of Boston Expressionism
By: - Aug 18th, 2014Judith Bookbinder's 2005 publication Boston Modern: Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Modernism is the definitive study of this important but neglected movement. Her study is meticulously researched and documented. This is the catalogue for the exhibition that the Museum of Fine Arts has failed to deliver. Significantly most of the Boston Expressionists were Jews struggling with Biblical constraints against the graven image.
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Group ZERO Co Founder Otto Piene at 85 Fine Arts
Guggenheim ZERO Exhibition to Open in October
By: - Jul 19th, 2014From 1974 to 1994 the German/ American artist Otto Piene was the director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT. With a farm in Groton he continued to commute to his studio in Dusseldorf. He died this week, at 85, while working on a major museum exhibition and sky art event in Berlin. While celebrated internationally, there will be an exhibition of Group ZERO this seaon at the Guggenheim, he was snubbed by the Boston art world and media.
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Franz West at Mass MoCA and WCMA Fine Arts
From Actionism to the Absurd
By: - Jun 21st, 2014The Austrian artist Franz West (16 February 1947- 25 July 2012). is being featured this summer in the Northern Berkshires. There is a display of several large scale, puffy, pink phallic sculptures at Mass MoCA and a tandem exhibition of works on paper and smaller scale sculptures at Williams College Museum of Art. The artist was widely included in global biennials and museum exhibitions including a retrospective at the Baltimore Museum of Art. We consider West in the milieu of post war artists in Vienna including its outrageous Actionists.
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Alibis: Sigmar Polke 1963-2010 Front Page
German Master Surveyed at MoMA
By: - Jun 03rd, 2014Sigmar Polke (1941-2010) was one of the most important Post War German artists. He is the subject of a dense, sprawling and and messy retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art through August 3. It would be a folly and conceit to attempt to review such diverse and eclectic, mind boggling work. For that we refer you to mainstream critics all of whom fail, to varying degrees, to nail down the work of one of the most fascinating and daunting artists of our time.
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Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe Fine Arts
Art Under Fascism Explored at Guggenheim Museum
By: - Jun 02nd, 2014The Italian artists circa World War I advocated destroying the past while embracing the future. Hence Futurism the subject of an enormous and fascinating survey Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe on view at the Guggenheim Museum through September 1. In their enthusiasm and nationalism they embraced the Fascism of Mussolini.
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From Primitivism to Propaganda: Russia’s Modern Masters Fine Arts
Works from Marina and Nikolay Shchukin Collection at National Arts Club
By: - May 31st, 2014From the late 1890s through the Russian Revolution of 1917 the Moscow based business man Sergei Ivanovich Schukin (1854-1936) assembled one of the great collections of early modern art. When the Soviets confiscated the collection he emigrated to Paris. The National Arts Club in New York is currently showing 35 Russian avant-garde works from the collection of family member Marina and Nikolay Shchukin. Through June 14 the exhibition is sponsored by Russian American Foundation as a part of the Annual Russian Heritage Month.
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Christopher Williams at the Art Institute of Chicago Photography
Play and Dream an Image. Let Someone Else Click.
By: - Apr 21st, 2014The title of the exhibit, "The Production Line of Happiness" is taken from a Jean Luc Godard documentary in which an amateur filmmaker compares his day job as a factory worker with his hobby of editing his films of the Swiss countryside. Williams says that today's consumer culture pictures and produces endless images to be consumed.
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Joe Thompson on Mass MoCA Expansion Fine Arts
Part One on Phase Three
By: - Mar 09th, 2014Several months ago we spoke in depth with Joe Thompson about a bill pending on Beacon Hill to grant $25 million toward the final phase of developing the North Adams campus of Mass MoCA. This week, early August, 2014 the bill has been signed by outgoing Governor Deval Patrick a Berkshire neighbor of the museum. Thompson, as he discusses here, must raise an additional $30 million for the project which will take several years.
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New York Sojourn II & III Theatre
Two Great Nights at the Theatre and Two Great Museums
By: - Feb 17th, 2014Visiting new York City means seeing great theatre. Mark Favermann and his companion Lisa saw Pinter's No Man's Land with Sirs Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart and the musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder with the versatile Jefferson Mays. These shows are two of the 2013-14 Broadway season highlights in the Big Apple. And NYC also means visiting great museums. Two that were visited were MoMA and the Morgan Library.
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Photographer/ Art Historian Carl Chiarenza Fine Arts
Makers and Mentors at Rochester Contemporary Art Center
By: - Jan 09th, 2014Carl Chiarenza is distinguished both as a photographer and a scholar. Rochester Contemporary Arts Center is featuring him in Makers & Mentors new and recent collages, paintings and photographs by: Carl Chiarenza (Rochester), Lisa Bradley (New York), Bruno Chalifour (Rochester), David W. Haas (Rochester) February 6 – March 16, 2014.
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Balthus at the Met and Magritte at MoMA Fine Arts
Surrealist Holiday in New York
By: - Dec 19th, 2013Dream surrealism has always been accessible to the general public. During the Holiday season in New York, through January 12, there is an intriguing double header. The relatively small but concise "Balthus: Cats and Girls — Paintings and Provocations" is on view at the Metropolitan while "Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938" is featured at the Museum of Modern Art.
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The Irish Museum of Modern Art Fine Arts
Dublin’s 17th Century Former Royal Hospital Kilmainham
By: - Dec 08th, 2013Relaunching after renovations the Irish Museum of Modern Art presented two special exhiitions- Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray (9 August 1878 – 31 October 1976) the Irish born furniture designer, and architect and Leonora Carrington (6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011) a British-born–Mexican artist, surrealist painter and novelist. Her mother was Irish.
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Izhar Patkin: The Wandering Veil Fine Arts
Vast Installation at Mass MoCA on View for a Year
By: - Dec 05th, 2013Building Five of Mass MoCA is one of the largest and most magnificent spaces for contemporary art in North America. It is always fascinating to see how artists respond to the daunting challenge. Izhar Patkin: The Wandering Veil is now on view for the coming year.
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Ana Mendieta at London's Hayward Gallery Fine Arts
Outstanding Among Feminist Museum Exhibitions
By: - Nov 19th, 2013For a variety of social and political motivations the majority of modern and contemporary museum level exhibitions we viewed recently in Dulin and London featured feminist reclamation projects for women artists of varying degrees of obscurity. Of these the large restrospective of work by the Cuban artist Ana Mendieta at Hayward Gallery required no PC underpinnings. Her work clobbered us with its primal power and originality.
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Anselm Kiefer at Mass MoCA for 15 Years Fine Arts
Building Developed with Hall Art Foundation
By: - Sep 27th, 2013In collaboration with the Hall Art Foundation a building dedicated to works by the German artist, Anselm Kiefer, will be on view at Mass MoCA for the next 15 years. Combined with the 25 year agreement for the Sol LeWitt building this greatly enhances the museum as America's foremost destination for contemporary art.
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Russian Art at the Guggenheim 2005 Fine Arts
Russia! Nine Hundred Years of Masterpieces and Master Collections
By: - Sep 25th, 2013There were just 250 works to convey Russia! Nine Hundred Years of Masterpieces and Master Collections at the Guggenheim Museum. This exhibition was interesting in view of efforts to write a history of 19th century art and modernism that does not entirely focus on Paris. The highlight of the exhibition conveyed the brilliant but brief Great Utopia that emerged with the Russian Revolution until the rise of Stalin after the death of Lenin. This review of the 2005 exhibition was posted to Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Encountering Native New Yorkers Fine Arts
An Ongoing Vision Quest
By: - Sep 23rd, 2013As research for the exhibition Native New Yorkers we interviewed artists, a curator and collector. We found that questions led every deeper into a richly diverse and little understood field of contemporary art. The article is reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Yinka Shonibare at Kunsthalle Wien Fine Arts
Double Dutch
By: - Sep 21st, 2013Yinka Shonibare: Double Dutch was shown at the Kunsthalle Wien in 2004. He was one of the most interesting artists included in the controversial 2000 exhibition of the Charles Saatchi collection Sensation at the Brooklyn Museum. This article is reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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Roth Time: a Dieter Roth Retrospective Fine Arts
MoMA and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
By: - Sep 20th, 2013The retrospective of Dieter Roth begged the question of the difference between treasure and trash. One waded through an enormous amount of stuff created by an amazingly original and prolific artist. This article was posted in Maverick Arts Magazine on April 6, 2004.
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Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism Fine Arts
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
By: - Sep 20th, 2013By 1913, as the leader of the Russian movement of Suprematism, Kazimir Malevich pushed abstract art to the limit. During the initial liberation of the Russian Revolution he held a position of authority over the fine arts. That Utopia ended with the rise of Joseph Stalin after which the fine arts retreated to the conservative, agit-prop movement of Social Realism. This review is reposted from 2004 article in Maverick Arts Magazine.
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German Artist Blinky Palermo Fine Arts
London's Serpentine Gallery
By: - Sep 20th, 2013Blinky Palermo a name adapted by a German artist from the genre of American boxing was a student of Joseph Beuys. But, in a brief career, he went in a different direction. In the relatively small Serpentine Gallery in London we had the rare opportunity to see his work in depth. This report was posted to Maverick Arts Magazine on May 29, 2003.
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Eva Hesse Retrospective Fine Arts
Curated by Elisabeth Sussman and Renate Petzinger
By: - Sep 19th, 2013During a 2002 tour of the Rhine we visited Wiesbaden to view the special exhibition of work by the American artist Eva Hesse. This review is reposted from Maverick Arts Magazine.
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