Summer in the City: NYC August 2009

Despite the great recession, tourists still love The Big Apple, as these crowd scenes taken during a summer 2009 trip attest. 

Tim Burton Exhibit Coming to New York's MoMA in October

Acclaimed director Tim Burton is being honored with an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City this November. The exhibition, aptly titled, Tim Burton will showcase a variety of works, ranging from full-length feature films to pen and ink sketches to...

Costume Institute Gala 2009 - New York

The Metropolitan Museum has just welcomed the elite of fashion under the blessing of Marc Jacobs and Kate Moss, who officièrent as masters of ceremony. Placed under the theme 'Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion ",...

The Onion's Worst Band Names of 2007

It's that time of year--album releases slow to a crawl, the PR shuffle slows to a crawl, and editors and writers seeking filler and desiring easy holiday writing compile their Best and Worst of the year lists....

Giant Sleepwalkers in Manhattan

Presented by the abfab arts org Creative Time, Doug Aitken's monumentally ginormous new projection project Sleepwalkers will be on view on the side of the Museum of Modern Art in New York starting on January 16th....

Chelsea Morning

New York needs a museum that really knows how to deal with contemporary art, and the downtown Whitney could be it—if it has the nerve.The art world remains obdurately critical of the new version of the Museum...

Museums Try YouTube, Flickr To Find New Works for the Walls

"A forthcoming exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art will feature work selected by unlikely curators: visitors to the YouTube video-sharing site. MoMA solicited videos to be included in a retrospective of the...

New Media, Modern Twist

" The Museum of Modern Art announced yesterday that it had created a new curatorial department to focus exclusively on the growing number of contemporary artworks that use sound and moving images in gallery...

Herzog & de Meuron Offer Their Vision of the MoMA

Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron should not relinquish their day jobs as high-profile architects in order to become curators or installation artists anytime soon. Their Artist's Choice exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art is perverse, cerebral and probably the most...

Seeing MoMA Through An Architect's Eyes

For the Museum of Modern Art's "Artist's Choice" series, a guest curator - usually an artist - selects and organizes work drawn from the museum's permanent collection. "Perception Restrained," a bewitching experiment conducted by architects Jacques Herzog...

Drawing Restraint 9: Short on Lube

"Barney's latest movie which premiered yesterday at MOMA, is by far the worst film he has ever made. It's not like all of us are going to see his movies because we think he's going to deliver a three hour ride of adrenaline, so when an artist who is known for his innovative...

Terence Riley on His Years as MoMA's Design Guru

Terence Riley never got to move into his new MoMA office. When he left the museum on March 15 to become director of the Miami Art Museum—where he’ll oversee the construction of a brand-new $200 million building—his Department of Architecture and Design was...

The Edge of Europe: New Architecture in Spain

A new show at MOMA documents recent architecture in Spain, which has in the last decade become an acknowledged center of design innovation and excellence.On-Site: New Architecture in Spain ...

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