Posts tagged MoMA

Leon Levinstein, (American, Buckhannon, West Virginia 1910–1988 New York City) Street Scene: Young Man Leaning against Shopfront Window, New York City, 1972

Leon Levinstein, (American, Buckhannon, West Virginia 1910–1988 New York City) Street Scene: Young Man Leaning against Shopfront Window, New York City, 1972

Infographic: Mapping The 70-Year Gestation Of Street Art - “What’s clever about the Feral [Graffiti] Diagram is that it utilizes the visual language of another very famous diagram, created by the first director of MoMA, Alfred H. Barr, in 1935. In his visualization, Barr used looping black arrows and Futura type to explain how Cubism and Abstract Art evolved from a mixture of high art and pop culture influences…”

Infographic: Mapping The 70-Year Gestation Of Street Art - “What’s clever about the Feral [Graffiti] Diagram is that it utilizes the visual language of another very famous diagram, created by the first director of MoMA, Alfred H. Barr, in 1935. In his visualization, Barr used looping black arrows and Futura type to explain how Cubism and Abstract Art evolved from a mixture of high art and pop culture influences…”

Lee Friedlander, Mobile, Alabama 1969, gelatin silver print, signed in pencil.

Lee Friedlander, Mobile, Alabama 1969, gelatin silver print, signed in pencil.

The Responsive Eye - “This is a video about The Responsive Eye exhibition at MoMA from 1965. I [Alex from The Fox is Black] found it wandering around on Vimeo and it features the curator of the exhibition William Seitz, along with a psychologist to explain the science, some stylish patrons, and even Philip Johnson walking around the exhibition and sharing thoughts. There are other creative types in the video: Josef Albers, Mon Levinson, Larry Aldrich, etc. If you like old documentaries, art history or just op art, it’s worth a watch.”

The Responsive Eye - “This is a video about The Responsive Eye exhibition at MoMA from 1965. I [Alex from The Fox is Black] found it wandering around on Vimeo and it features the curator of the exhibition William Seitz, along with a psychologist to explain the science, some stylish patrons, and even Philip Johnson walking around the exhibition and sharing thoughts. There are other creative types in the video: Josef Albers, Mon Levinson, Larry Aldrich, etc. If you like old documentaries, art history or just op art, it’s worth a watch.”

Digital Fonts: 23 New Faces in MoMA’s Collection

“MoMA has just acquired 23 digital typefaces for its Architecture and Design Collection. Some are of everyday use, like Verdana; others are familiar characters in our world, like Gotham, which was used in President Obama’s election campaign, or OCR-A, which we can find at the bottom of any product’s bar code; and others are still less common, but exquisitely resonant, like Walker or Template Gothic.” See also: MoMA acquires digital typefaces; what does that mean?

MoMA Attendance Hits Record High

“What do you get when you combine a mischievous filmmaker, a cache of floral masterpieces and a handful of nude performers? A record box office. The Museum of Modern Art attracted its highest-ever number of visitors, 3.09 million, during its 2010 fiscal year, according to estimates released Monday by the museum. (The tally is an estimate because the museum’s fiscal year does not end until June 30.) The figure represents an increase of 250,000 over the previous year’s attendance, and a 530,000 increase over the museum’s first full year of operation in its new building (fiscal year 2006).”

Love the The Unknown Hipsters illustrations for the Marina Abramovic’s exhibit at MoMA.

Love the The Unknown Hipsters illustrations for the Marina Abramovic’s exhibit at MoMA.

Henri Cartier-Bresson at MoMA - “Rarely has the phrase man of the world been more aptly applied than to the protean photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, the subject of a handsome and large though surely not anywhere near large enough retrospective opening at the Museum of Modern Art on Sunday. For much of his long career as a photojournalist, which began in the 1930s and officially ended three decades before his death in 2004, Cartier-Bresson was compulsively on the move. By plane, train, bus, car, bicycle, rickshaw, horse, and on foot, he covered the better part of five continents, in a tangled, crisscrossing itinerary of arcs and spurts.”

Henri Cartier-Bresson at MoMA - “Rarely has the phrase man of the world been more aptly applied than to the protean photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, the subject of a handsome and large though surely not anywhere near large enough retrospective opening at the Museum of Modern Art on Sunday. For much of his long career as a photojournalist, which began in the 1930s and officially ended three decades before his death in 2004, Cartier-Bresson was compulsively on the move. By plane, train, bus, car, bicycle, rickshaw, horse, and on foot, he covered the better part of five continents, in a tangled, crisscrossing itinerary of arcs and spurts.”