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The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles has appointed Connie Butler as chief curator. In her new role, Butler, who recently resigned from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, will be in charge of developing and organizing exhibitions, building the Hammer’s...
If there’s one cultural icon unique for its contemporary ubiquity and our unparalleled adoration, it is the household cat – Felis catus. Though predominantly a fixture of memes and .gifs, cat representations have made inroads into the work of prominent...
With the recent opening of his show at the Museum of Modern Art, New Yorkers finally have the chance to feast their eyes on the brightly painted sculptures and sculptural reliefs of coffee shop foods from Claes Oldenburg’s classic work “...
Claes Oldenburg began his extraordinary pop art career in the 1960s by transforming everyday objects - such as banana sundaes, hamburgers and street signs - into whimsical sculptural depictions. In "The Street and The Store," the Museum of Modern Art revisits...
Claes Oldenburg’s 1962 sculpture Floor Burger — a four-by-seven-foot painted canvas stuffed with foam rubber and cardboard boxes — caused an uproar in 1967 when the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) purchased it from New York’s Sidney...
Imagine yourself cracking open one of those terrible essays about “how young people talk today.” The author makes a big deal about how the kids are tossing around slangy abbreviations like “LOL” and “OMG.” But you are baffled to discover that in explaining...
“The influence of anxiety” is one way of describing many of the 31 films in the Museum of Modern Art’s impressive “The Weimar Touch” exhibition, which starts next Wednesday, April 3, and runs through May 6. As opposed to a conventional...
On view now at the Museum of Modern Art, “Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light” charts the career of the celebrated 19th-century French architect behind Paris’s Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève and Bibliothèque nationale, arguably two of the most...
As a founding figure of photography's modernist traditions, Bill Brandt's unpredictable works from landscapes to nudes showcase his unique vision. His images of society in the 1930s and exploration of moon-lit London during the blackouts of the Second World...
NEW YORK — Amidst a busy late winter arts season that saw particularly strong exhibitions focused on postwar Japanese art — the Gutai retrospective at the Guggenheim, for instance, plus solo shows of individual Gutai artists like Takesada Matsutani at...
