Tag Results

14 posts tagged MoMA

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations. This imperative rightfully takes precedence over acquisition, interpretation, outreach, or any number of other activities now believed to be crucial to the survival of our great art repositories. Sometimes a museum gains its holdings with much strategic forethought, and at other times serendipitously, as when a long-coveted neighbor’s plot suddenly becomes available. Yet the moral responsibility remains the same.

Martin Filler, writing for the New York Review of Books, is incensed at the Museum of Modern Art’s decision to destroy the architecturally significant American Folk Art Museum (via Required Reading)

blackqueerdo Posted by blackqueerdo

Donation Promises to Transform Metropolitan Museum into Major Cubist Art Center

Pablo Picasso, “Femme assise dans un fauteuil (Eva) (Woman in an Armchair)” (1913)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that Leonard A. Lauder has made a major donation of Cubist art that will transform New York’s largest museum into a major center for Cubist art. The pledged gift is comprised of 78 works, including 33 works by Pablo Picasso, 17 by Georges Braque, 14 by Juan Gris, and 14 by Fernand Léger.

View Post

Donation Promises to Transform Metropolitan Museum into Major Cubist Art Center

Pablo Picasso, “Femme assise dans un fauteuil (Eva) (Woman in an Armchair)” (1913)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that Leonard A. Lauder has made a major donation of Cubist art that will transform New York’s largest museum into a major center for Cubist art. The pledged gift is comprised of 78 works, including 33 works by Pablo Picasso, 17 by Georges Braque, 14 by Juan Gris, and 14 by Fernand Léger.

View Post

hragv Posted by hragv

republicx:

Tilda Swinton sleeps in glass box for surprise performance piece at Museum of Modern 

The “Moonrise Kingdom” actress, 52, took up residence in a glass box at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on Saturday as part of an unannounced performance piece. Clad in jeans and a blue button-down shirt, the Academy Award winner slept on an unadorned white pallet in a transparent display case. 

Her public napping is part of a performance art piece titled “The Maybe,” which she debuted in 1995 at London’s Serpentine Gallery. She later repeated the work in the Museo Barraco in Rome. Swinton will return to the glass case several times to appear in the installation, but the exhibition dates remain a mystery even to MoMA employees. 

blackqueerdo Posted by blackqueerdo

Reblogged from republicx