BRUCE CONNER — I AM AN ARTIST, AN ANTI-ARTIST, A ROMANTIC, A REALIST, A POSTMODERNIST, A BEATNIK, SUBTLE, CONFRONTATIONAL, ACCESSIBLE, OBSCURE, SPIRITUAL, PROFANE. — IT’S ALL TRUE. “Bruce Conner (1933–2008) was one of the foremost American artists of the 20th century, whose transformative work defies straightforward categorization. An… Read More
“Dadaglobe Reconstructed will reunite over 100 works by more than 40 artists that were submitted to Tristan Tzara for his planned but unrealized 1921 anthology Dadaglobe. In Paris in late 1920, Tzara, a poet and a co-founder of Dada, drew up a proposal for an ambitious… Read More
“With the major exhibition Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty, The Museum of Modern Art brings new focus to Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas’s (French, 1834–1917) extraordinary and rarely seen monotypes and their impact on his wider practice. It is the first exhibition in the U.S. in nearly… Read More
“A Japanese Constellation maps a network of architects who gravitate around Toyo Ito (born 1941) and SANAA, the office founded in 1995 by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. Focusing on work made since the start of the twenty-first century, the exhibition highlights themes that link… Read More
“Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective is the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s work to take place in New York, bringing together some 200 works, the majority made between the years 1963 to 1975. The exhibition explores the critical if under-recognized place of Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian,… Read More
“This concentrated survey of the work of Jackson Pollock (American, 1912–1956) tracks the evolution of the artist’s work from the 1930s until his 1956 death at the age of 44. The Museum of Modern Art’s Pollock holdings are unparalleled in their breadth and quality, and… Read More
“Probing the effects of an image-based post-Internet reality, Ocean of Images examines various ways of experiencing the world: through images that are born digitally, made with scanners or lenses in the studio or the real world, presented as still or moving pictures, distributed as zines,… Read More
“Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan. 1874–1949) is a central figure in the history of modern art in the Americas. He embraced the formal freedom of modernism without sharing the modern messianic fascination with progress, and aimed to produce an art that was at once timely and universal,… Read More
“Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) was trained as a painter but not as a sculptor; from the start, this facilitated a natural disregard for tradition in his sculptural work. Although Picasso’s sculpture is a relatively unfamiliar aspect of his career, it is one that has been profoundly influential throughout… Read More
“Analogue is an urgent document and poetic allegory of globalization and the push for technological innovation, revealing the movement of goods and the homogenization of diverse geographical locations in the 21st century.” — Roxana Marcoci, Senior Curator, The Museum of Modern Art Analogue was made possible through… Read More
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“The photographers Harry Shunk (German, 1924–2006) and János Kender (Hungarian, 1937–2009) worked together under the name Shunk-Kender from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, based first in Paris and then in New York. Shunk-Kender photographed artworks, events, and landmark exhibitions of avant-garde movements of… Read More
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