“Visual Vernaculars: An Ode to Everyday Images” Robin Coste Lewis EXHIBITION ON VIEW August 2023 — August 2024 MUSEUM OF MODERN ART 11 West 53rd Street New York, NY 10019 Poet Robin Coste Lewis’ newest exhibition, Visual Vernaculars, highlights the role photography can play in the construction of a self-image, giving form to interrelated social…
If you’ve been debating over which new movies are worth the trip to the theater, The Museum of Modern Art is bringing back its annual series to narrow down the best of the year, from blockbusters to independent critical favorites. Starting in November and running through January 22nd, MoMA has announced the 2021 lineup of…
Projects: Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill The Museum of Modern Art From April 25 - August 15, 2021 The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is currently exhibiting Projects: Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill in the artist's first solo exhibition in the United States. The work can be viewed in the Museum's street-level galleries, having begun on April 25 and lasting…
Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) From March 11 – September 6th, 2021 In what is not only her first New York exhibition but her first major United States exhibition, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is presenting the work of visionary feminist artist Niki de Saint Phalle…
New York's Museum of Modern Art reopened on October 20th after being closed for nearly four months. The $400 million put into the renovation went towards more extensive galleries, live performance spaces, more dining options, and a fresh new store. The extra 40,000 square feet of space means more room for the three million visitors…
“LOUISE BOURGEOIS: AN UNFOLDING PORTRAIT” The Museum of Modern Art September 24, 2017-January 28, 2018 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019 Beginning September 24, 2017, The Museum of Modern Art brings us a new exhibit about the creative process and works of Louise Bourgeois. The exhibit, entitled “Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait”, does not have simply…
In the first week of his presidency, Donald Trump issued an executive order that banned immigration and travel from seven majority Muslim countries – Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Libya, Sudan, and Somalia. The move led to outrage from human rights groups and the eruption of protests across the country. Last Thursday, February 2nd, the Museum…
Nan Goldin "Ballad of Sexual Dependency" The Museum of Modern Art, NYC June 11 - February 12, 2017 The MoMA has reinstalled Nan Goldin's 700 snapshot slideshow. The portraits are sequenced in unison with a soundtrack that correlates to the photographs. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a personal narrative taken from Nan Goldin's experiences…
Andrea Geyer Revolt, They Said (October 15–November 29, 2015) Insistence (October 15–November 15, 2015) MoMA 11 West 53rd Street, New York This month the MoMA continues a two-part presentation by artist Andrea Geyer. Comprising of the video projection Insistence (2013) and the large-scale wall drawing Revolt, They Said (2012–ongoing), the presentation is the culmination of her…
Take an Object MoMA 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019, Second Floor August 22, 2015 - February 28, 2016 MoMA is exploring old times to bring a new exhibition, Take an Object, to its space from August 22nd to February 28th, 2016. The exhibit explores an era in the 1950s and 60s, where a radical…
Yoko Ono: "Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971" Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY May 17 - September 7, 2015 Yoko Ono has exhibited at the MoMA before, in an advertised "one woman show," consisting of a plaque that informed visitors that the artist had released flies on the Museum…
Now you can put your pasta on an image of Marina Abramović's gold-leaf covered lips. The MoMA Design Store and Bernardaud present Abramović Method: Misfits for the Table, a set of mismatched porcelain plates featuring the above lips, as well as star, sun and moon motifs, and Marina's family crest from Montenegro. Each set is comprised…
Documentary Fortnight MoMA, 1 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019 February 13 through 27, 2015 Documentary Fortnight 2015: MoMA's International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media, is the 14th annual showcase of recent documentary film that examines the relationship between contemporary art and nonfiction practices and reflects on new areas of documentary filmmaking. The two-week…
The New Year brings about a whole new round of special shows and exhibitions at the MoMA. Some exhibitions are too good to go out with 2014, however. The popular Matisse: "The Cut-Outs" exhibition has been extended until February 10, so you have some more time to go and see it (or see it again).…
I’ve long been in awe of Richard Tuttle’s works. At first, as a child: I despised his work and my taste instantly went towards Warhol and Koons. But soon, as an adolescent, my heart awoke to the splendors of the finely grained beauties of the world – those dappled rarer things – and my eyes crawled…
Sturtevant: Double Trouble November 9, 2014–February 22, 2015 Special Exhibitions Gallery, third floor The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street New York, NY 10019 MoMA presents the first comprehensive survey in the U.S. of the 50-year career of Sturtevant (American, 1924–2014), and the only institutional presentation of her work organized in the U.S.…
Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not A MetaphorMuseum of Modern ArtOctober 4th, 2014 - January 18th, 2015 Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor is the first large-scale survey of Robert Gober’s career to take place in the United States. Robert Gober (American, b. 1954) rose to prominence in the mid-1980s and was quickly acknowledged as one of…
Chris Ofili: Night and Day The New Museum October 29, 2014-February 2, 2015 This October, The New Museum will present English-born Chris Ofili's first major solo exhibition in the United States. "Night and Day" is a collection of the artist's influential career, including various mediums such as painting, drawing, and sculpture. The exhibition will occupy…
Performance artist Istvan Kantor was removed from The Whitney Museum for splashing what was reportedly his own blood in the shape of an X on the third floor of the museum's current retrospective on the illustrious Jeff Koons. The Canadian self-described critic also managed to scribble "Monty Cantsin [his pseudonym] was here" and posed behind Koons' Rabbit sculpture, which…
September 2014 Film + Performance Art Exhibitions Museum of Modern Art September 2014 FILM SERIES: MoMA Presents: Sidney Lanfield's Hat Check Girl September 1–7 In 2013 MoMA collaborated with Twentieth Century-Fox to preserve what may have been the only extant 35mm nitrate print of Hat Check Girl (1932). Long unseen by moviegoers, the film made a triumphant return,…
