MoMA’s recent expansion embodies the tension between the ways in which cultural spaces can offer visitors comfortable narratives and on the other, how they can suggest the potential for radical inclusiveness by iteration, reinvention, and reinstallation.
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January 10, 2020

 

Gauging the Possibilities of Impermanence at the New MoMA

MoMA’s recent expansion embodies the tension between the ways in which cultural spaces can offer visitors comfortable narratives and on the other, how they can suggest the potential for radical inclusiveness by iteration, reinvention, and reinstallation.

Laura Raicovich

 
 
 
 

Two Artists Stare Into the Face of Death

In Misbehaving Bodies, Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery’s works consider the protracted degeneration of the body.

Andrew Stooke

 
 
 
 

60 Years of Posters Celebrating the Cuban Revolution

Despite the contradictions of the Cuban Revolution, the posters on view at the Museum of Decorative Arts suggest that, on paper, artists had freedom to express their optimism and support.

Elisa Shoenberger

 
 
 

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Apply for Warren Wilson’s Low-Residency MA Program Focused on Craft History and Theory

With the MA in Critical Craft Studies, students can connect their academic and life experiences to histories and narratives of craft. Applications are due March 1, 2020.

 
 
 

News

NYC Grants Awards to 36 Nonprofits for Arts and Culture Programs in Languages Other Than English

The Department of Cultural Affairs has launched the Create NYC Language Access Fund, awarding grants ranging from $5,000 to $25,000.

 

Chris Ofili and Naoki Urasawa Among Artists to Create Posters for 2020 Olympics

Twenty posters to commemorate the upcoming Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics have premiered at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.

 

France Blocks Export of Cimabue Found in Kitchen, Smithsonian Acquires Two Kusama Infinity Rooms

Also, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York acquired over 700 rare photographs from the William L. Schaeffer Collection, and the Baltimore Museum of Art announced its fall 2019 acquisitions.

 
 
 

An Illustrator’s Whimsical Perspective on the Everyday

“[I]t’s incredible to still spend my days conjuring and creating as an adult,” says Rosanna Tasker.

Sarah Rose Sharp

 
 
 
 

Images of 100,000 Artworks From Paris Museum Collections Now Freely Available to the Public

Paris Musées is offering digital downloads of masterpieces by artists including Rembrandt, Gustave Courbet, and Eugène Delacroix.

Valentina Di Liscia

 
 
 

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Call for Applications: CalArts Summer Art Residency in Partnership with Hauser & Wirth

California Institute of the Arts brings back its five-week summer residency with visiting artists Dena Yago, Rachel Yezbick, and American Artist.

 
 
 
 

A Poignant Travelogue From a Mother to Her Daughter

The most important thing Ursula Schulz-Dornburg carried with her as she wandered the streets of Yerevan, Armenia, in search of new wonders, is not this camera or that, but the thought of her daughter.

Sarah Rose Sharp

 
 
 
 

The Perennial Problem with the Excavation of Ancient Sites

Why chase after unprovenanced — and likely looted or forged — material when so much excavated material lies waiting for study?

Michael Press

 
 
 
 

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