Museum of Modern Art
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...
Walking onto the sixth floor of the Museum of Modern Art this morning for the press preview of “Claes Oldenburg: The Street and The Store,” which opens this Sunday and features two installations of the artist’s early work, we were struck by...
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...
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 — Amid the neon lights installed at the Museum of Modern Art’s Garden Lobby during the Armory Party last night, the art set swayed along to a performance by Solange — artist Rashaad Newsome was spotted in the front row — before cutting...
This June, the Museum of Modern Art will present the largest exhibition on Swiss/French architect Le Corbusier (né Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) ever produced in New York City. “Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes” will offer another opportunity to...
WHAT: “Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde”WHEN: November 18 — February, 2013WHERE: The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, New YorkWHY THIS SHOW MATTERS: While World War II devastated the Japan’s infrastructure, the ’50s and ’60s were a time of...
NEW YORK — The MoMA Design Store is one of the rare retailers to give a Warhol print, a Castiglioni lamp, and a squirrel-shaped plush pillow equal shelf space. And it wants you for its next display: The MoMA Design Store open call is well underway. In the...
NEW YORK — Want to add some excitement to your annual spring cleaning? Don’t forget that you can donate old clothes, books, and trinkets to the Museum of Modern Art — at least for a few weeks. The New York institution is accepting second-hand items from the...
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April 08, 2013
