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July 18 to October 11, 2010.

 Henri Matisse. The Moroccans. Issy-les-Moulineaux, late 1915 and fall 1916. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Modern Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Marx. © 2010 Succession H. Matisse/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

In the time between Henri Matisse’s return from Morocco in 1913 and his departure for Nice in 1917, the artist produced some of the most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic works of his career. Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 moves beyond the surface of these paintings to examine their physical production and the essential context of Matisse’s studio practice. The exhibition presents approximately 120 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints in the first sustained examination devoted to the work of this important period. More>

The bad boy of fashion and the darling of haute couture, Alexander McQueen is honored in this illustrious and artful publication. Order your copy here.

Crowded even then.

Thursday July 8th @ 9pm
Union Pool 484 Meeker Ave. Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Spread the love. Spread the magic. Spread the WORD.

Andy Warhol wasn’t alive then but I bet his soon-to-be-born spirit loved the filmaker behind this amazing view of a NYC subway ride.

Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987). Self-Portrait (Strangulation), 1978. Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas, ten parts, 16 x 13 in. (40.6 x 33 cm) each. Collection of Anthony d’Offay. © 2010 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Ten years after an acquaintance, Valerie Solanas, attempted to assassinate Warhol, he created a series of self-portraits. The self-portraits of 1978—his first in more than twelve years—reveal Warhol, who had just turned fifty, in a period of self-examination, reflecting on his mortality. Here Warhol stages his own strangulation in an image that suggests his previous near-death experience and confirms his obsession with the subject of death.  

June 18–September 12, 2010  

Andy Warhol: The Last Decade is the first U.S. museum survey to examine the late work of American artist Andy Warhol (1928–1987). Encompassing nearly fifty works, the exhibition reveals the artist’s vitality, energy, and renewed spirit of experimentation. During this time Warhol produced more works, in a considerable number of series and on a vastly larger scale, than at any other point in his forty-year career. It was a decade of great artistic development for him, during which a dramatic transformation of his style took place alongside the introduction of new techniques. 

Subway: Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum Get detailed directions

This is an amazing program featuring American ballet masters perfect for the July 4th holiday.

The Brahms-Haydn Variations Choreography by Twyla Tharp, Music by Johannes Brahms
Company B Choreography by Paul Taylor, Songs sung by The Andrews Sisters
Fancy Free Choreography by Jerome Robbins, Music by Leonard Bernstein

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 Kerry James Marshall. Study for Blue Water, Silver Moon. 1991. Conté crayon and watercolor on paper, 49  3/4 x 38 1/8″ (126.4 x 96.8 cm). The Museum of Modern Art. Purchased with General Acquisitions Funds and funds provided by The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art. © 2010 Kerry James Marshall.

June 30, 2010–September 12, 2011

The works selected for this installation highlight the debates around economics, politics, gender, and ethnicity that have permeated artistic practices since the late 1960s. Including approximately 130 works drawn from all of the Museum’s curatorial departments, the installation features a variety of approaches to art-making and follows a chronological path. The exhibition begins with works such as a haunting “body print” by David Hammons (1969), which depicts the artist in an act of prayer, and Pino Pascali’s Machine Gun (1966), a sculpture he made out of parts from a Fiat 500 during a period of intense social unrest in Italy. Concluding the show are two projects that explore larger themes of humanity and loss through current events: Huma Bhabha’s expansive print series Reconstructions (2007), in which the artist memorializes lost civilizations in her native Pakistan, and Paul Chan’s Waiting for Godot (2007), a project based on the artist’s restaging of Samuel Beckett’s play in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. (read more)

Joris Laarman. Bone Chair. 2006. Aluminum. Manufactured by Joris Laarman Studio, The Netherlands. The Museum of Modern Art. Gift of the Fund for the Twenty-First Century.

Objects are not still. And yet design is often considered in terms of static aesthetic and functional qualities, without much consideration of trajectory in time or relationships with people. The objects presented in Action! Design over Time reveal the often overlooked dimension of temporality, providing a deeper understanding of contemporary design. Some of these objects embody frozen moments in time, whether crafted by hand (like Ingo Maurer’s Porca Miseria! chandelier, which is made of broken dishes) or crystallized by a computer using a digital manufacturing machine (as with Ammar Eloueini’s CoReFab chair). (read more)

Artist: Eugene Schroeder
Born: Detroit, MI
Zodiac: Cancer
Resides: NYC, NY

I walked up the the stairs from the subway at 103rd st and Lexington Ave. and looked to my left to see the hill my Mom roller skated down, against her Mother’s warning, and fell bumping her head. She covered up the bump to prevent more bruising from her Mom by combing her long hair over her bump and eye like Veronica Lake. Spanish Harlem in the 40′s, the stuff movies are made from. I walk the streets and wonder what it was like for my Mom back then. I remember her stories as I stroll taking in the familiar sounds. Now in 2010 I visit to interview artist Eugene Schroeder, a white boy from Detroit. Hey, things change. Read on →