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A Boat Against the Current (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
November 8, 1929—Only 10 days after the stock market crashed, eviscerating at one stroke the ability of New York’s monied class to act as patrons and the capacity of the middle class to pay for anything besides essentials, the Museum of Modern Art opened to something astounding: an audience receptive to its innovative mission of extending art outside the traditional forms of painting and...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) presents Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity from November 8, 2009, to January 25, 2010. The Bauhaus school in Germany—the most famous and influential school of avant-garde art in the twentieth century — brought together artists, architects, and designers in an extraordinary conversation about the nature of art in the modern age....
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Emdashes (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Jonathan Taylor writes: Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity is the Museum of Modern Art's first major Bauhaus exhibit since 1938. Janet Flanner ("Genet") wrote in 1969 about a Bauhaus retrospective at the Musée National d'Art Moderne (then on the Ave. du Président Wilson) and the nearby Musée Municipal d'Art Moderne in Paris, coinciding with the 50th anniversary...
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Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
"Like LA's MOCA, Brandeis' Rose Art Museum suffered from not permanently displaying its permanent collection." -- Christopher Knight via Twitter. 'Twas a weekend during which closely-related stories came together to reveal an under-considered truth: Contemporary art museums that collect and that don't commit themselves to their collections are creating problems for themselves. In the Boston...
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No Fact Zone.Net (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
No one told me that an anaconda was going to be a guest last week on Colbert, and I must admit, I do hate snakes. Hopefully, this week there won’t be any scary surprise guests, but here are the ones lined up so far who all seem pretty interesting. Monday, November 9: Thomas Campbell Tom Campbell became [...]
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
For me, that is true art. The artist becomes a kind of healer/shaman; and we who finally have access to these miraculous pieces, become initiated into worlds which take us places we have never been before.
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Sympathy for the Moon (Free subscription) | yesterday
It rained last night and today is much cooler and overcast. A relief from the last week. People here in São Paulo work very hard and long hours and I have found that an arrangement to meet is liable to be cancelled at the last minute for one reason or another. Mind you, it's not as hard as trying to get a cup of tea which is in fact impossible. And of course I'm dying for a cup of tea. At a...
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If It's Hip, It's Here (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
above: Once called the Bel-Air, The Andrea has now been mass produced Originally named the Bel-Air, the modern looking purifier was an experiment between the French designer Matthieu Lehanneur and David Edwards and was initiated by Le Laboratoire in October 2006. The final design optimized the filtration capacity of leaves, roots, soil and plant water to achieve a first Laboratoire artscience innovation....
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Brooklyn Heights Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Manhattan has the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, the Guggenheim and more but Brooklyn Heights has snagged the Toy Museum. The Brooklyn Eagle reports: Brooklyn Eagle: Marlene Hochman, founder of The Toy Museum of New York (formally known as The Doll and Toy Museum of NYC) and local public officials will host a preview of the museum’s [...]
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PORT (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Laurel Nakadate, "Exorcism in January" PICA, PSU, Reed, et al present Laurel Nakadate for next week's PMMNLS. Nakadate is a photographer, video artist and filmmaker. Her work has been exhibited at P.S.1/MoMA, The Yerba Buena, The Getty Museum, and The Reina Sofia. In 2009, her first feature film, Stay The Same Never Change premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to be featured...
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fredzimny ccccc blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Found at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/arts/design/06photography.html'partner=rss&emc=rss By KAREN ROSENBERG Published: November 5, 2009 Back when Andreas Gursky was on the rise, the art world buzzed about the supposedly unfair advantages of digital photography. Photoshop and other computer manipulations were seen as performance-enhancing drugs, an impression fostered by Mr. Gursky’s...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
They were artists, designers and architects with a mission: What can we make of art in the modern age? That modern age was post-WWI Germany -- and with geniuses such as Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Vassily Kandinsky and Marcel Breuer at the helm, wh...
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The Latin Americanist (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
If you are in New York this week, make your way over to the Musuem of Modern Art (MoMA) for the Ibermedia film exhibition. The exhibition Iberoamerica:Our Way(s) lasts from November 5-13 and will feature Latin American films. Ibermedia is an intergovernmental organization facilitating film projects, helping to finance coproductions, and providing grant money for the distribution and promotion of Spanish...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
COLUMBUS, OH - The first U.S. retrospective of the work of Belgian contemporary artist Luc Tuymans, and the most comprehensive presentation of the his work to date; will debut at the Wexner Center for the Arts, in Columbus, Ohio (September 17, 2009 to January 3, 2010). Jointly organized by the Wexner Center and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Luc Tuymans spans every phase of the artist’s...