Posts Tagged 'museum'

Carsten Holler Exhibit at New York’s New Museum Turns Art into Interactive Fun

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Written By: Catherine Wolinski Last October, the New Museum in New York City presented Carsten Holler: Experience, the first New York survey of works by Carsten Holler, a German scientist-turned-artist who resides in Stockholm, Sweden. The exhibition, which will be open until Jan. 15, transforms multiple galleries into a world of research experimentation crossed with [...]

The MoMa in New York adds ‘@’ to their Collection of Fine Art

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Today, the prestigious Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in New York announced the addition of the @ symbol to their collection, which they bought for the cheapest price imaginable: absolutely nothing. According to Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator in the museums Department of Architecture and Design, this newest item is the only thing in the museum [...]

Hip Hop Documentary Screened at Akron Art Museum in Ohio

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Yesterday, the Akron Art Museum in Akron, Ohio held a free screening of Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, a documentary film by long-time hip-hop fan, Byron Hurt.  This film was one of the official selections of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, and is a very personal journey beyond the bling, which strives to paint a well-rounded picture of the complex blend of masculinity, sexism and homophobia [...]

Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit Showcases the Abstract

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A recent exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit wants everyone to care less about what art means and more about what it inspires. Their vision uses abstract art to instill emotion, and not to stoke an onslaught of questions; therefore, out of the who, what, where and why of things, all that anybody [...]