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View ArticleHow Far Is Too Far?
Contemporary artists have made work depicting graphic sexual acts, damaging property, injuring their own bodies, or paying others to alter theirs. But when does art cross the line from avant-garde to...
View ArticleLet the Games Begin
Artists are designing or adapting video games to comment on politics, art, and games themselves. Read More
View ArticleDome Improvement—What’s an Art Museum Doing in Rockaway Beach?
MoMA PS1’s VW Dome 2 is the latest in a wave of museum outposts that are humble, nimble, and temporary, offering free admission—and much more than art Read More
View ArticleAuto Companies Deliver Sponsorship for Contemporary Art
Looking to align themselves with creativity, innovation, and globalism, auto companies are becoming major sponsors at contemporary-art museums Read More
View ArticleMoMA’s New Curatorial Guard
A new generation of curators at New York’s Museum of Modern Art aims to present a more nuanced and inclusive view of modern-art history Read More
View ArticleNo Filters At The Art Basel Miami Beach Instagram Panel
Had the concept of art fairs existed in 1410 (the date of some of the earliest surviving canvases), would we have had panels about canvas that praised it as a medium? Would we even have had to ask how...
View ArticleState of Emergency: Biesenbach’s Björk Show Turns MoMA Into Planet Hollywood
One gloomy morning this week at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, I was standing in a snaking, claustrophobic line–the first of many–for the press preview of a retrospective of the Icelandic singer...
View Article‘Let’s Make It Happen’: Deitch on Almost Joining MoMA, Bribing Michael...
“I don’t really care about money,” Jeffrey Deitch told New Museum curator Massimiliano Gioni last night at the New York Public Library. “Money is something to do more crazy projects with.” There you...
View ArticleOf Flies and Homemade Bombs: Yoko Ono’s Art World
One recent afternoon, I was sitting in a room in Yoko Ono’s apartment in the Dakota building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, waiting for her to arrive. The apartment was dark, but this room was...
View ArticleThat Is the Back of Klaus Biesenbach’s Head on the Cover of James Franco’s...
Penguin announced today that it is publishing a new book by James Franco, written with David Shields, called Flip-Side: Real and Imaginary Conversations with Lana Del Rey. At first look, it seems like...
View ArticleMoMA PS1 Admission Will Be Free for New Yorkers for One Year
Klaus Biesenbach announced in an email today that the museum he directs, MoMA PS1 in Queens, will be free for all New York City residents thanks to a gift from the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen...
View ArticleHere’s Klaus Biesenbach’s Tribute to Lady Gaga From the National Art Awards...
Last night, at the National Art Awards gala dinner in New York, MoMA PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach presented the Young Artist Award to Lady Gaga, following a performance of her songs performed by a...
View ArticleSaved by the Bell: Accepting Patronage Award, Maria Bell Defends Deitch’s...
And Klaus Biesenbach discusses the Berlin Biennale, PS1’s 40th anniversary Read More
View ArticleHow to Fix the Art World, Part 1
Back in August my staff and I embarked on an epic project: we wanted to know what inhabitants of the art world think is wrong with it and how they would fix it. In the ensuing months we spoke with …...
View ArticleKlaus Biesenbach Recalls the Founding of KW in Berlin 25 Years ago, a Moment...
Exactly 25 years ago today, the Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art opened in a disused margarine factory in Berlin. The Berlin Wall had come down only two years before, and word had spread...
View Article‘We Had to Create Something New’: Klaus Biesenbach on Inventing the Berlin...
The MoMA PS1 director discusses key works that appeared in the show, by Carsten Höller, Sarah Sze, Dan Graham, and others. Read More The post ‘We Had to Create Something New’: Klaus Biesenbach on...
View ArticleKlaus Biesenbach Named Director of MOCA Los Angeles
He takes the reins from Philippe Vergne, who announced that he would depart the museum earlier this year. Read More The post Klaus Biesenbach Named Director of MOCA Los Angeles appeared first on ARTnews.
View ArticleJust Like Starting Over: Can MOCA Los Angeles Reinvent Itself Again?
The newly installed Klaus Biesenbach is the institution's third director in ten years. Read More The post Just Like Starting Over: Can MOCA Los Angeles Reinvent Itself Again? appeared first on ARTnews.
View Article‘Everyone’s Been Giving the Thumbs Up’: At MOCA L.A. Benefit, Glitz and a $10...
The donation comes from MOCA's recently appointed board president Carolyn Clark Powers. Read More The post ‘Everyone’s Been Giving the Thumbs Up’: At MOCA L.A. Benefit, Glitz and a $10 M. Gift appeared...
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