Nature cities. Stacked houses. Half-suburb half-zoo hybrid where your terrace is above an elephant and the wolves are just around your backyard slope. Well… wow. Last summer, five interdisciplinary teams of “architects, urban planners, ecologists, engineers, and landscape designers” got together for public workshops at MoMA PS1 and re-envisioned “housing” in light of the ongoing foreclosure crisis. See their pipe dreams and brilliant schemes as renderings, models and animations at “Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream,” Feb 15 – Jul 30, MoMA, NYC
Here’s a excellent little online 8-bit “video game” so everyone can experience the intricacies and frustrations of Marina Abramović’s The Artist Is Present MoMA performance. Just make sure to click in during museum hours, NYC time, or you won’t get in. Ha! Ha! Read more »
It’s like Pee Wee’s Playhouse for brilliant geniuses at MoMA’s special exhibit Talk To Me, rounding up a whopping 194 communication-themed works, interfaces, devices and visualizations. There’s a finger implant that reads aloud into an ear implant, a plastic wide-open-mouth prosthesis for awkward mumblers, a Muslim prayer robo-rug that lights up neon when facing Mecca and so much more, oooaghgh… Read more »
If you’ve been looking forward to seeing Finland’s junkie doc Reindeerspotting: Escape from Santaland, it’s playing at MoMA June 8th through the 13th. RIP Jani.
Fight the urge to add “Don’t” captions to these heartbreaking photographs of homeless alcoholics in late ’90s Ukraine. There are 400 photos in master photog Boris Mikhailov’s seminal Case History series documenting the social and economic fallout after the collapse of the Soviet Union — 20 life-size prints are now view at the MoMA. The devasting but charismatic models were posed and partially stripped with just a slight Herzog-ian nudge. Read more »
Neat! Google Art Project is Street View for museums – tons of them! – so you can sprint through St. Petersburg’s Hermitage, trot around the Tate and then go to MoMA and zoom deep inside the cracks and dabs of Starry Night. Read more »
Apparently, MoMA only gives out artist passes if you can prove you’ve had a show off-line. To hack these internet art discriminating practices, F.A.T. artist Aram Bartholl made this step-by-step guide to creating your own one year MoMA artist pass with a scanner and a bar-code generator so online artists can reward themselves. Read more »
If you sat across Marina Abramović at the MoMA for The Artist is Present, your face is going to be published in Aperture’s new book of Marco Anelli’s photographs. Count on Pablo Blancas, the doppleganger, the crasher, that chick that kind of looks like Olivia Wilde and you, if you were hot, teary, consistent or VIP enough to stand out of 1500+ sitters.
MoMA has aggregated some nifty data graphs on Marina Abramović’s “The Artist Is Present” sitters. With 21 sitters per day and 21 minutes per sitter per day on average, when you look at it as a bar graph, those who hogged the seat all day really look like they’re giving the finger to everybody else.
Marina Abramović‘s MoMA curator Klaus Biesenbach had a bit of a freak-out at the fancy-shmancy post-exhibit gala last week and, instead of reading his speech, broke down into declarations of 20 years worth of unrequited love and told everyone that Marina Abramović can’t see without her glasses. Does that mean she didn’t see her thousands of sitters? Read more »
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