Posted by The G on January 2, 2011 under Artsy Fartsy | 
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Performance 9: Allora and Calzadilla
New York – if you want to see a really interesting performance art piece that mixes music, sculpture and crowd participation, I highly recommend you get thee over to the Museum of Modern Art before January 11, 2011 to check out Performance 9 by Allora and Calzadilla. A hole has been cut out of the center of a piano. A performer gets inside the piano and performs the fourth movement of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony upside down and backwards (from the angle the performer faces the keys) and walks around the atrium of the museum while it’s being performed! Wow!
As the performance starts, a crowd gathers around the piano to watch this amazing feat. As the piano player travels around the atrium, the crowd basically has to move out of the way and as this happens, the sound of the symphony starts to change as you follow the performer around. The performances happen every half hour during museum hours, so you should definitely check this out and have your mind blown.
Ariel view.
The Piano
Posted by The G on May 11, 2010 under Artsy Fartsy |
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Marina Abramovic (on the left) in an all day staring contest at MOMA.
Yugoslavian artist Marina Abramovic is currently starring in an exhibition of her work at New York’s Museum of Modern Art entitled “The Artist Is Present.” The exhibit spans 40 years of Abramovic’s career from photography and video installations to live performance art. The performances are definitely interesting as there are about 5 people in the exhibit that are completely naked. Most stand expressionless and the ones that do look right into your eyes (as you are inevitably staring at their private parts). There is one part in the exhibit where a naked man and woman are standing in very close proximity to each other and the only way you can enter the next room is to walk through them. Cameras and cheap feels are not allowed in this exhibit that has to be seen to be fully understood. It definitely gave me some interesting food for thought and I am sure it will do the same for you. On the ground floor of the museum, the artist sits in the atrium sitting totally still staring into the eyes of another person seated across from her. Again, not the most profound installation you’ll ever see, but certainly interesting. The exhibit runs through May 31, 2010.
Marina Abramovic - The Artist Is Present now at MOMA through May 31, 2010.
Posted by The G on April 12, 2010 under GNN |
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David Byrne - Appearing at MOMA on April 13, 2010.
David Byrne from the Talking Heads will be at New York’s Museum of Modern Art on April 13, 2010 to sign copies of his latest CD “Here Lies Love,” a 2-CD oddessy that was composed with DJ Fatboy Slim and is about former Phillipines first lady Imelda Marcos. Byrne will not be signing other memorabilia, so if you want to get that stuff signed, be sneaky! Read more about the event here.
Posted by The G on December 30, 2009 under Artsy Fartsy |
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Tim Burton exhibit at MOMA now through April 26, 2010
Aside from loving The Nightmare Before Christmas and the first 2 remakes of Batman, I am not a huge Tim Burton fan. That changed dramatically when I went to the Tim Burton and the Lurid Beauty of Monsters Exhibit at MOMA with the always fabulous Gail. The exhibit was very crowded, so I’d advise that you use the above link to get your tickets in advance, as it’s been sold out for weeks.
The man has been creating art (and thankfully cataloging it) since he was a little kid, and it’s all on display now at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. There must have been a thousand works in this exhibit. You’ll see paintings, doodles, unreleased cartoons, costumes, renderings and models from this brilliant man. There’s stuff from all of his major films (Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Black Cauldron, Batman, Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, James and the Giant Peach, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Mars Attacks, Sweeney Todd and the list goes on…) A few of my favorites were a drawing of “Vincent” that was autographed by the inspiration Vincent Price, with a note saying “I wish I was him”; a handwritten letter to Johnny Depp with an idea for a line he should say in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and a rejection letter from Disney on a children’s book that Burton hand illustrated when he was a kid that basically said he is talented but he’s not commercial enough. Who’s laughing now? If you even remotely like his work, this exhibit is a must see. They were very strict about no photos (read: buy the $70 coffee table book instead), but I got a few for my faithful. Enjoy them after the jump (and there’s more on Gail’s blog. Link is above).
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Posted by The G on September 18, 2009 under Artsy Fartsy |
Ron Arad - No Exceptions at MOMA from now - October 19, 2009
Israeli artist Ron Arad has a rad exhibit called No Discipline that is now on display at the Museum of Modern Art through October 19, 2009. It is so cool! Arad has futuristic furniture, sculptures, record players, lamps and more. He’s doing a talk on September 17 and you can find out more at this link.
See more cool photos after the jump.
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