Parasimpatico, a multimedia exhibition that recently concluded, is the first major solo exhibition in Italy by Pipilotti Rist, a boundary-breaking Swiss artist. Her installations, which transform the medium of film by reinventing language and employing expositive procedures, have been exhibited worldwide at musuems including MOMA in New York and Centre Pompidou in Paris. By tapping [...]
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Screen Test at PopRally
January 18, 2011 – 2:17 pm
If you haven’t been to a MoMA PopRally event, this Thursday night should be your christening. PopRally presents artists, works of art and exhibitions, screenings, situations, and parties all nestled in the evening at MoMA- drinks included! The last event I attended was a screening of Chris Cunningham’s latest music video for Gil Scott-Heron. The [...]
The Best Way to Waste Time on The Internet
March 19, 2010 – 2:48 pm
For her highly anticipated retrospective The Artist is Present, Marina Abramovic has chosen to sit at a table in the main room of the MOMA and invite the audience one by one to come and sit with her in silence. She will be there for three months every day for seven hours a day. The [...]
Roy Andersson Retrospective at MoMA
September 4, 2009 – 5:15 am
Next week MoMA will have a retrospective of the Swedish film director Roy Andersson. Highlights will be A Swedish Love Story (1970) and the darkly comic Songs from the Second Floor (2000). Ingmar Bergman has described Andersson as the “world’s greatest advertising director” and MoMA will also be screening a selection of his commercials filmed [...]
Song Dong’s Mom’s Stuff at MoMA
August 12, 2009 – 5:59 pm
A few years ago I had a conversation with my kids about what they would do with my stuff when I die. I joked that if the sheer accumulation of it got too overwhelming, they could always hook one of those big slides up to the window of my apartment and shoot everything down to [...]
The Fight of the Down and Out – James Ensor at the MOMA
July 23, 2009 – 6:01 am
Long before expressionism fell into the public light, there was James Ensor. With his manic mints, feverish reds, and haunting, often masked figures, eating, fighting, parading, and laughing demonically, Ensor was a late nineteenth century eccentric and occasional visionary. Seeing the 120 paintings included at the MOMA’s exhibition of the artist’s work, there is a notable sense of urgency and [...]
