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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Renowned Artist Jaune Quick to See Smith Fine Arts
New Mexico Studio Visit
By: - Sep 17th, 2013It started as an e mail dialogue. During a drive through the South West we arrived at the studio of the renowned Native American artist and activist, Jaune Quick To See Smith. That led to an exhibition of all new works on paper that I curated for the gallery of the New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University. On that occasion Janune gave a special lecture to a general assembly of Suffolk students.This report is reposted from a 2005 article in Maverick Arts Magazine.
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100 Boston Artists by Chawky Frenn Fine Arts
New Book Follows 100 Boston Painters
By: - Sep 16th, 2013The figurative artist, Chawky Frenn, has followed 100 Boston Painters with 100 Boston Artists. The books are handsomely designed and printed with superb reproductions. Although he consulted with many experts in the field he made the final selections. This has resulted in an eccentric and uneven overview with a mix of major and minor artists. One of the strong points of the second volume is a fresh and insightful critical essay by Debbie Hagan the former editor of Art New England.
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Figurative Expressionism in Provincetown Fine Arts
PAAM Exhibition Through September 2
By: - Aug 21st, 2013Following World War II the matrix of global contemporary art shifted from Paris to New York with the development of abstract expressionism as the leading movement of contemporary art of that era. During the 1950s there was much speculation about a Return to the Figure. Young artists who flocked to Provincetown to study with Hans Hofmann and Henry Hensche explored a synthesis through Figurative Expressionism. A number of these artists showed with Sun Gallery in Provincetown and Hansa Gallery in New York. The exhibition "Pioneers from Provincetown: The Roots of Figurative Expressionism" curated by Adam Zucker, Co-curator, Stephanie DeTroy focuses on this important movement.
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Lloyd Oxendine on Native American Art Fine Arts
Artist, Curator, Critic and Activist
By: - Jun 25th, 2013We met with Native American artist Lloyd Oxendine in his New York apartment in 2006. He related early efforts to promote the artists of his heritage in the 1960s and 1970s. Recently we learned that not long after the interview the artist became homeless and nothing has been heard from him since then. In 1985 he became Director/Curator of New York's American Indian Community House (AICH) Gallery/Museum. During his tenure he organized some 40 exhibitions and worked to promote reviews and sales.
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2013 National Design Awards Announced Design
Cooper-Hewitt Museum Honors Design Achievement
By: - May 17th, 2013The National Design Awards program celebrates design as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world, and seeks to increase national awareness of design by educating the public and promoting excellence, innovation, and lasting achievement. This year's award-winners are from a variety of design disciplines.
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Turner Prize 2013 Short List Fine Arts
Laure Prouvost, Tino Sehgal, David Shrigley and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
By: - Apr 25th, 2013Tate Britain today announced the four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2013. This year the exhibition will be held at Ebrington in Derry-Londonderry as part of the UK City of Culture 2013. The artists are (in alphabetical order): Laure Prouvost, Tino Sehgal, David Shrigley and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
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Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award to Michelle Dorrance Dance
Presented During Opening Gala on Saturday, June 15.
By: - Apr 10th, 2013Michelle Dorrance, Artistic Director of Dorrance Dance, is lauded as "one of the most imaginative tap choreographers working today†(The New Yorker). A 2012 Princess Grace Award Winner, 2012 Field Dance Fund Recipient, and 2011 Bessie Award Winner, Dorrance is among the world’s most sought after tap performers, teachers, and choreographers today.
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2013 AICA Awards Fine Arts
Recognition from America's Art Critics
By: - Mar 26th, 2013The American Chapter of the International Society of Art Critics (AICA) announces its annual awards. There are a number of categories from site specific works to gallery and museum exhibitions.
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Gaetano Pesce's L’Abbraccio, (The Hug) Fine Arts
NY's Fred Torres Collaborations March 21 to May 25
By: - Mar 15th, 2013L’Abbraccio, (The Hug) the name of the exhibition, refers to a cabinet designed by Gaetano Pesce in 2009 of two people locked in an embrace. In addition to its “namesake†cabinet, the exhibition will feature some of Pesce’s rarely seen drawings, maquettes, lighting and furniture from the 1970s. On view at Fred Torres Collaborations from March 21-May 25, 2013.
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The Latino List: Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Fine Arts
The High Museum March 17-May 19
By: - Mar 06th, 2013The Latino List: Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders exhibition is a portrait survey of 30 important Hispanic Americans by photographer and documentary filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. The exhibition debuted in 2011 at the Brooklyn Museum. It is on view in Atlanta's High Museum of Art from March 17 through May 19.
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Jaune Quick To See Smith at Accola Griefen Gallery Fine Arts
Water and War On View Feb 28 to April 6
By: - Feb 22nd, 2013Jaune Quick to See Smith is one of the foremost Native American artists of her generation. She will exhibit work on the theme of Water and War at the Accola Griefen Gallery in New York City from February 28 through April 6.
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Carrie Mae Weems at Nashville's Frist Center Fine Arts
Three Decades of Photographs and Video
By: - Jan 23rd, 2013From the Frist Center For The Visual Arts, in Nashville, its originating venue, the Carrie Mae Weems retrospective travels to the Portland, Oregon Art Museum, (February 2-May 19, 2013), The Cleveland Museum of Art (June 30-September 29, 2013, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University in California (October 16, 2013 – January 5, 2014), ending its run at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (January 24-April 23, 2014).
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Mass MoCA Director Joe Thompson Two Fine Arts
Programming the Vast Building Five
By: - Jan 17th, 2013The vast vaulted space of Building Five is roughly the length and width of two, end to end, football fields. Globally, there are only a handful of similar spaces. The basic approach of artists over the last 13 years has been to jam it full or leave it relatively empty. The current installation "Phoenix" by Xu Bing realizes its full potential. In this second and final installment of an extensive dialogue Mass MoCA director Joe Thopson discusses the museum's programming and challenges.
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Ada Louse Huxtable Dead At 91 Architecture
Eloquent Critic of Architecture and Built Environment
By: - Jan 08th, 2013Ada Louise Huxtable was the first architecture critic at the New York Times (1963) and the first architecture critic to win the Pulitzer Prize (1970). Her clearly stated analytical prose was always accessible and enlightening. She was a voice of reason and often a voice of conscience. Ms. Huxtable's thoughts and refined wisdom will be missed from our civic conversation. Reprinted here is a 2008 review of the last major compendium of her writings.
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Architect Oscar Niemeyer Dies At 104 Architecture
Modernist Brazilian Pioneer Influenced 20th Century Design
By: - Dec 06th, 2012Oscar Niemeyer passed away just short of his 105th birthday on December 5, 2012. A Brazilian, he was one of the most prolific and influential architects of the 20th Century. Influenced by Le Corbusier, however Niemeyer championed the curve over the right angle. His portfolio included the major buildings of Brasilia, the planned new capital of Brazil, the United Nations complex in New York City and several significant museums and headquarters buildings.
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2013 James and Audrey Foster Prize Fine Arts
ICA Announces Finalists for Biennial Award
By: - Nov 09th, 2012Sarah Bapst, Katarina Burin, Mark Cooper, and Luther Price were named finalists for the 2013 James and Audrey Foster Prize, the ICA's biennial award and exhibition program for Boston-area artists, the museum announced today. Bapst, Burin, Cooper, and Price will participate in an exhibition organized by Helen Molesworth, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, on view at the ICA from May 1 through July 21, 2013.
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Liminal Objects at Harvard's Design School Design
A Conference to Discuss the Object in Spatial Context
By: - Oct 25th, 2012Approaching design from differing points of view, Liminal Objects initiated a conference series at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design about design that aims to identify pressing issues within the field by exploring the designed object’s role in diverse spatial practices. Designers, academics, critics and curators looked objectively at the designed object.
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Brian O’Doherty Receives Clark Award Fine Arts
Award Ceremony at Explorer's Club NY Nov. 16
By: - Oct 18th, 2012The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute will honor artist, writer, and critic Brian O’Doherty with the 2012 Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing by recognizing his continuing contributions to the visual arts. Established in 2006, the Clark Prize recognizes insightful and accessible prose that advances a genuine understanding and appreciation of the visual arts.
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Joffrey Ballet at Jacob's Pillow Dance
Sold Out Event Ends Season
By: - Aug 20th, 2012The Joffrey Ballet, one of America’s pioneering ballet companies of the 20th century, makes a rare East Coast appearance to conclude the Jacob’s Pillow 80th Anniversary Season August 22–26. The Joffrey Ballet returns for the first time since its high-profile appearances at the Pillow in the 1950s and 60s, presenting an impressive program that features Taiwanese-American choreographer Edwaard Liang’s Age of Innocence, Russian choreographer Yuri Possokhov’s Bells, and the world premiere of Son of Chamber Symphony by Stanton Welch, Artistic Director of Houston Ballet.
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Architecture As Sculpture in 2012 Architecture
From PS 1 to China to the London Olympic Park
By: - Aug 05th, 2012Architecture as sculpture was a 20th Century concept embraced by many modernist architects. This year there were several major examples of noteworthy sculptural architectural statements. This is architecture as form. Unlike many other less imaginative Olympic games, the London Olympics showcased several wonderful structures. Perhaps the worst one was by sculptor Anish Kapoor who created a bad piece of architecture as a piece of grandiose functional sculpture. Other fine examples are a wonderful temporary piece at PS 1, a new design museum in Shenzen, China and one at London's Serpentine Gallery.
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The Glass House: Philip Johnson's Masterpiece Architecture
From Its Inception A 20th Century Architectural Icon
By: - Jul 08th, 2012Conceptualized in 1945 and completed in 1949, architect Philip Johnson's Glass House almost immediately became a 20th Century architecture icon. Used by Johnson as a weekend retreat for 58 years, it is now shared with the public as part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. It is a pilgrimage mecca for architecture buffs to see the eccentric outer structures and contemporary art collection of Johnson and his longtime partner art curator/critic David Whitney. This is a visually-compelling experience of an architectural masterpiece.
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A Conversation With Herb Gart - Part VII Music
On Auditioning Record Labels
By: - Jun 24th, 2012I explain to my clients that they are not auditioning for a record company; the record company is auditioning for us. We know you’re great and we are looking for the A&R man who gets it.
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Jacob's Pillow Dance 2012 Dance
Full Schedule June 16 through August 26
By: - Jun 07th, 2012Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival kicks off June 16 with the 80th Anniversary Gala, followed by “a veritable dance explosion†(Claudia La Rocco of The New York Times) of more than 300 free and ticketed performances, talks, exhibits, classes, and events spanning three months.
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Ralph Brill on Photographer Leonard Freed People
Eclipse Mill Exhibition and Other Projects
By: - Jun 05th, 2012A version of the traveling exhibition The Italians by the late photographer, Leonard Freed, will be presented in August at the Eclipse Mill Gallery by the gallerist/ entrepreneur Ralph Brill. We met with Brill to discuss Freed and other wide ranging thoughts and projects. There was a focus on North Adams as the former home of Arnold Printworks and Sprague Electric prior to becoming home to Mass MoCA.
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Berkshire International Film Festival Film
Complete Schedule May 31 to June 3
By: - May 30th, 2012The 7th Annual season of The Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF) will celebrate this year with the latest in independent feature, documentary, short and family films. The festival runs from May 31 – June 3, 2012 in Great Barrington and June 1 – June 3rd in Pittsfield, MA and will be showcasing over 70 films in independent filmmaking.
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