Finally a Museum that launches a (free) App ! The Museum of Modern Art in New York is home to the world’s finest collection of modern and contemporary art. Now you can carry MoMA on your Iphone with more than 32,000 art pieces wherever you go. Use the MoMA App to find out about current exhibitions, plan a visit, browse or search tens of thousands of works in the collection, take multimedia tours, or learn about artists and art terms. Take a photo through MoMA Snaps and send it to a friend. Credit
June 18–September 12, 2010
Robert E. Blum Gallery, 1st Floor
Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 5th Floor
” 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. ”
“Cadmium has been discovered in the painted design on “Shrek”-themed drinking glasses being sold nationwide at McDonald’s, forcing the burger giant to recall 12 million of the cheap U.S.-made collectibles while dramatically expanding contamination concerns about the toxic metal beyond imported children’s jewelry.”
“The CPSC noted in its recall notice that “long-term exposure to cadmium can cause adverse health effects.” Cadmium is a known carcinogen that research shows also can cause bone softening and severe kidney problems.
In the case of the Shrek-themed glassware, the potential danger would be long-term exposure to low levels of cadmium, which could leach from the paint onto a child’s hand, then enter the body if the child puts that unwashed hand to his or her mouth.
Cadmium can be used to create reds and yellows in paint. McDonald’s USA spokesman Bill Whitman said a pigment in paint on the glasses contained cadmium.”
Died in her Manhattan home at 92. LonglivedARTLIFE.
“Ms. Bourgeois’s sculptures in wood, steel, stone and cast rubber, often organic in form and sexually explicit, emotionally aggressive yet witty, covered many stylistic bases. But from first to last they shared a set of repeated themes centered on the human body and its need for nurture and protection in a frightening world. “ . . . . click here for more info . . .
“Note to Banksy: Graffiti is not art, it is vandalism, no matter how many vapid celebrities or art world luvvies tell you otherwise. My advice for Customs is to search Banksy thoroughly for spray cans upon his arrival in Sydney, along with a stern warning that we won’t tolerate any of his nonsense. He should be allowed to present his film, then driven directly to the airport, without the chance to stop and deface some great public building with kitsch commentary. And perhaps given a gentle kick up the arse and the exhortation to ”wake up to yourself, mate” at the departure “
MISSION:To raise awareness of art globally and bring more art to more people.
“We feel artists are under-valued, under-exposed, and generally under-appreciated. Our goal is to bring attention to artists that otherwise don’t get the attention they deserve. If we can bring their art to one person that would have otherwise missed the opportunity to see it, we feel like we have made a contribution to the art community”
Riding the subway in NYC is cheap, efficient, and often, highly irritating. It’s like a concentration of the most inconsiderate and rude people know to man, but hopefully one graphic designing prankster can help. Artist Jay Shells informed us of his ‘Subway Etiquette’ poster campaign:
I surveyed 100 people on their top pet-peeves (not service related) while riding the Subway. I narrowed the results down to the top ten most occurring issues and rewrote them as a sort of list of rules. I designed posters in the style of the Service Changes posters we see everyday and silkscreened about 40 of each (400 total) and am currently putting them up on trains throughout the city, throughout this week. I encourage people to look out for them, and to take them before the MTA does.
Younger Than I’ll Be, a group photography show I curated, is opening Wednesday, April 7 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It’s the first show I’ve curated, and I can’t tell you yet how it looks because I’m going to hang it tomorrow. What I can tell you that it’s about New York as it was when I was younger. I wanted it to feel like being a teenager in the city when I was growing up – a little gritty, a little dangerous, and very free. Artists include David Armstrong, Cass Bird, Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Marcelo Gomes and Robert Longo.
Opening Wednesday, April 7, 6-8 pm
April 7 – May 23
Natman Room, BAM Peter Jay Sharp Building
30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn NY
above image: Summer in the City, Virginia Parrott
” By now, Google’s plans to pretty much put all art, books, and publications into a massive digital library for public access is widely known. In a new turn of events, The American Society of Media Photographers and other groups representing visual artists plan to file a class-action lawsuit against Google today, according to media reports. The groups charge that Google’s plan to create a vast online library by digitizing millions of books amounts to a large-scale copyright infringement. No shit ” www.juxtapoz.com
