Posted: Jul 17th, 2008 | Comments: 0
Home Delivery: The Cases of Japan and Scandinavia
The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition, Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling, surveys the past, present and future of the prefabricated home. This panel focuses on two quintessential ...
Frank O’Hara: Selected Poems at Lunchtime
Frank O'Hara worked at The Museum of Modern Art on and off for fifteen years—first selling postcards, then curating exhibitions and writing catalogue copy—all the while composing poems during ...
Posted: Jul 16th, 2008 | Comments: 0
Opposites Attract: Ed Fella & Post Typography
Ed Fella worked as a commercial graphic designer for thirty years in Detroit, and is famed for his contribution to contemporary typography. Post Typography, consisting of Nolen Strals ...
Posted: Jun 12th, 2008 | Comments: 0
Orientalism: The Roots of Modernism
The 19th century had a love affair with the Arabic Middle East. For some it was all about an exoticism which we today might think of as romantic, ornamental, even ...
Posted: May 8th, 2008 | Comments: 0
Hao Jiang Tian: My Wild Ride from Mao to the Met
Operatic bass Hao Jiang Tian reminisces about and performs the songs that highlight his tumultuous journey from the Cultural Revolution to the Metropolitan Opera. Tian is the first Chinese-born ...
Posted: May 4th, 2008 | Comments: 1
Satyagraha Forum: The Poetry of Peace and Politics
Is poetry inevitably political? Can language provoke peace? Spearheaded by Anne Waldman, a founder and current Director of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute, and ...
Posted: May 2nd, 2008 | Comments: 0
Filmmaker Talks: Harmony Korine
Screenwriter, director and producer Harmony Korine (Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy), was originally spotted for his writing of Kids. Join him as he discusses Mister Lonely, his third ...
Posted: May 1st, 2008 | Comments: 1
Filmmaker Talks: Isabella Rossellini
Successful model and actress Isabella Rossellini (Blue Velvet, Big Night, Fearless) wrote My Dad Is 100 Years Old and makes her directorial debut in the experimental Green ...
Posted: Apr 29th, 2008 | Comments: 0
In a period of radical expansion of public interest and market forces, what is the state of contemporary art’s production, presentation, and acquisition? What roles do narcissism and trophy-gathering play? ...
Posted: Apr 18th, 2008 | Comments: 2
Richard Price — writer for HBO’s The Wire and the author of The Wanderers, The Color of Money, and Clockers — turns to the subject of crime in the ...
Posted: Apr 15th, 2008 | Comments: 0
