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Displaying all articles tagged:
Moma
performance pieces
Feb. 24, 2024
Want Enlightenment? Go to MoMA and Ask for Cynthia
If you keep buying things, you’ll never achieve understanding.
By
Jillian Steinhauer
art review
Sept. 8, 2023
The Deadpan Precision of Ed Ruscha
Cars, suntans, palm trees, and swimming pools.
By
Jerry Saltz
art
Feb. 22, 2023
MoMA’s Glorified Lava Lamp
Refik Anadol’s
Unsupervised
is a crowd-pleasing, like-generating mediocrity.
By
Jerry Saltz
art
Sept. 9, 2022
Wolfgang Tillmans Changed What Photos Look Like
A career retrospective becomes a cathedral of the mundane.
By
Jerry Saltz
art review
May 3, 2022
Matisse’s Miracle in Red
A small exhibition at MoMA captures a big moment in Modernism.
By
Jerry Saltz
art
Feb. 19, 2020
Donald Judd’s Minimalist Legacy Is All Around Us
The artist wanted his work totally empty. Which allowed the world to make anything out of it.
By
Jerry Saltz
the lost canon
Jan. 6, 2020
Beauford Delaney Very Nearly Disappeared from Art History
As a black, gay painter, even when he was celebrated, it was not as an equal to his contemporaries.
By
Jerry Saltz
art and architecture
Oct. 25, 2019
Two Critics — Art and Architecture — Compare Their New MoMA Experiences
Saltz and Davidson on the newly expanded museum.
By
Justin Davidson
and
Jerry Saltz
art
Oct. 2, 2019
What Does the New MoMA Mean for Modernism? And What Was Modernism Anyway?
The reimagined Museum of Modern Art tries to open itself up.
By
Jerry Saltz
fall preview 2019
Sept. 11, 2019
The Best and Biggest Art Shows to See to This Fall
From JR, Amy Sherald, Pope.L, and more.
By
Jerry Saltz
and
Carl Swanson
best of 2018
Dec. 6, 2018
Jerry Saltz’s 10 Best Art Shows of 2018
Including an abstract pioneer and presidential portraiture.
By
Jerry Saltz
art
Nov. 2, 2018
This Long-Running MoMA Show Might Restore Your Faith in Utopianism
Finding solace in Bodys Isek Kingelez.
By
Jerry Saltz
architecture
July 25, 2018
The MoMA’s Tribute to Yugoslavia’s ‘Concrete Utopia’ Is a Revelation
This hugely ambitious show portrays an idiosyncratic, multiethnic, and open postwar society that propelled itself into the industrial age with brio.
By
Justin Davidson
exclusive
Dec. 19, 2017
MoMA Is Screening
Twin Peaks: The Return
for Free
Is it future or is it past? Is it TV or is it film?
By
Devon Ivie
July 27, 2017
Jerry Saltz: I Give In, MoMA. You’ve Won Me Over. (Halfway, Anyway.)
MoMA has been this broken spatial matrix since November 4, 2004, the day it reopened with great fanfare.
By
Jerry Saltz
podcasts
June 28, 2017
WNYC and MoMA Are Making an Artsy Podcast with
Broad City
’s Abbi Jacobson
Two major New York cultural institutions are coming together to make a podcast baby.
By
Nicholas Quah
trump travel ban
Feb. 5, 2017
MoMa Foregrounds Art From Countries Affected by Trump Travel Ban
The museum is moving pieces from the Western canon in order to showcase art from Iran, Iraq, and Sudan.
By
Karen Brill
Nov. 19, 2016
This Francis Picabia Retrospective Is a Call to Mutiny
Picabia wakes the polis.
By
Jerry Saltz
Nov. 16, 2016
America’s Dad Tom Hanks Wants to Reassure You That America Will Be Okay
“[The constitution] is going to protect us, over and over again, whether or not our neighbors preserve and protect and defend it themselves.”
By
Jennifer Vineyard
art du jour
Oct. 26, 2016
The World’s First Emoji Are Going to Be Displayed at MoMA
[
Face with tears of joy emoji.
]
By
Devon Ivie
Sept. 9, 2015
How Picasso the Sculptor Ruptured Art History
“Picasso Sculpture” could be one of the great learning experiences of your seeing life.
By
Jerry Saltz
July 15, 2015
Wael Shawky’s Epic Films Will Completely Change How You See the Crusades
They are the most intoxicating, savage masterpieces of the Crusades I’ve seen anywhere, on film or otherwise.
By
Jerry Saltz
videology
June 9, 2015
Watch Two of Björk’s Stunning MoMA Videos
“Stonemilker” and “Black Lake.”
By
Dee Lockett
May 21, 2015
Meet Awol Erizku, the Art World’s New It Boy
The 26-year-old artist everyone seems to know.
By
Tahirah Hairston
art
May 13, 2015
Yoko Ono and the Myth That Deserves to Die
Why is it such a perennial youthful rite of passage to misunderstand, to underestimate, even to hate Yoko Ono?
By
Lindsay Zoladz
art
Mar. 5, 2015
MoMA’s Björk Disaster
I wanted to be surprised and proven wrong about the Björk show. Alas, I haven’t been.
By
Jerry Saltz
artsy
Feb. 16, 2015
Here’s Björk’s Beautiful MoMA Trailer
Her retrospective will be at the museum from March 8 to June 7.
By
Sean Fitz-Gerald
Jan. 14, 2015
MoMA’s Monet Fire Sale
The institution’s latest off-putting move is auctioning a Claude Monet from its collection.
By
Jerry Saltz
review
Nov. 20, 2014
MoMA’s Schemes for Fixing Urban Problems Are Either Too Dainty or Too Sweeping
The museum’s “Uneven Growth” exhibition feels shaky and simplistic, predicated on a vague and reductive view of global economics and an inflated belief in the power of architecture.
By
Justin Davidson
kid critics
Oct. 24, 2014
Playing Critic With Schoolchildren at MoMA’s ‘Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs’
“I think those are hearts. And that might be seaweed.”
By
S. Jhoanna Robledo
seeing out loud
Oct. 8, 2014
Do Not Miss MoMA’s Overwhelming Henri Matisse Exhibition
Few artists reward prolonged scrutiny more than Matisse.
By
Jerry Saltz
seeing out loud
Sept. 30, 2014
Art Review: The Great, Inscrutable Robert Gober
I don’t understand Gober’s work. That’s how I know how good it is.
By
Jerry Saltz
architecture
July 13, 2014
Why It’s So Hard to Keep Beaux-Arts Museums Looking Beautiful
The same problem keeps cropping up at the Frick.
By
Justin Davidson
June 18, 2014
I Love Björk, But a MoMA Retrospective Is a Terrible Idea
MoMA’s “mad marriage of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and amusement park.”
By
Jerry Saltz
seeing out loud
Apr. 16, 2014
Seeing Out Loud: Saltz on Sigmar Polke at MoMA
“A show of a great artist with great work that fails to be great.”
By
Jerry Saltz
seeing out loud
Mar. 25, 2014
Saltz: This Renovation Plan Will Ruin MoMA
The greatest collection of modernism on Earth has been relegated to rotating storage.
By
Jerry Saltz
art
Jan. 14, 2014
Davidson on How to Adapt the American Folk Art Museum
Davidson: “There is a more attractive alternative.”
By
Justin Davidson
Jan. 13, 2014
Jerry Saltz to MoMA’s Trustees: Please, Reject This Awful Expansion Plan
An art critic’s plea.
By
Jerry Saltz
art
Jan. 8, 2014
Saltz: The Next MoMA Expansion Is As Big a Mess As the Last One
“The more I heard and saw, the sicker and sadder I got.”
By
Jerry Saltz
art
Jan. 8, 2014
Davidson: MoMA Reveals Its Expansion Plans
And the fate of the American Folk Art Museum.
By
Justin Davidson
seeing out loud
Nov. 20, 2013
Jerry Saltz: My Final Word on MoMA’s Woman Problem
“I’ve said this enough times, and I am done complaining about it.”
By
Jerry Saltz
classical music
Aug. 3, 2013
Justin Davidson on the MoMA’s First Sound Art Exhibition
The artists in
Soundings
all seem to live in isolation booths.
By
Justin Davidson
architecture
Aug. 1, 2013
Justin Davidson on MoMA’s Departing Barry Bergdoll
The museum will lose a quiet crusader.
By
Justin Davidson
architecture
June 9, 2013
Justin Davidson on the Twin Legacies of Le Corbusier
Why architects have never stopped paying tribute to him.
By
Justin Davidson
May 9, 2013
Davidson: MoMA May Not Tear Down the American Folk Art Museum After All
Potentially good news for the museum’s defenders.
By
Justin Davidson
installations
Apr. 21, 2013
Inside MoMA’s Rain Room Installation
Opening May 12, visitors briefly gain godlike control over wet weather.
art
Apr. 12, 2013
Saltz on MoMA’s Plan to Raze Folk Art Museum
It was doomed to death as an art museum from the beginning.
By
Jerry Saltz
architecture
Apr. 11, 2013
Davidson on MoMA’s Plan to Raze Folk Art Museum
If the museum’s architects can’t figure out a way to use the building, that is a failure of imagination.
By
Justin Davidson
glass case of non-emotion
Mar. 25, 2013
Jerry Saltz on MoMA’s Sleeping Tilda Swinton
Blame Marina Abramovic.
By
Jerry Saltz
great things
Mar. 23, 2013
Tilda Swinton to Occasionally Sleep in a Glass Box at MoMA
Friday was her first performance.
By
Andre Tartar
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