In 1975, near the end of the Cultural Revolution in China, artist Xu Bing relocated to the countryside for two years. The 1987-8 woodcuts in MoMA’s collection reflect this pastoral atmosphere while anticipating the artist’s later turn to Conceptual art. The set of woodcuts by Xu Bing (Chinese, born 1955) in MoMA’s collection depicts rural…
In this video, Roxana Marcoci, Senior Curator in the Department of Photography, interviews artist Olga Chernysheva at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow during the C-MAP Central and Eastern European group trip in June 2015. Olga Chernysehva is a mid-career artist based in Moscow who works across media. Born in the Soviet Union…
This 1966 essay is renowned for its early use of the term “postmodern.” Unlike later theorizations, the Brazilian critic Mário Pedrosa deploys the concept to discuss how immersive environments replace distanced visual perception in the artworks of Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Clark. New attention to the essay—where the text is interpreted as an alternate theoretical…
Ram Rahman (photographer, designer, curator and activist) discusses key examples of modernist architecture in post-colonial India. Using photographic documentation and archival materials, he surveys the landscape of architects, designers, photographers, entrepreneurs, and intellectuals working (primarily in New Delhi) between the 1950s and 1990s. This presentation is excerpted from a closed-door session with MoMA’s C-MAP Asia…
In this video, Kim Conaty, Curator at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, interviews artist Andrei Monastyrski at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow during the C-MAP Central and Eastern European group trip in June 2015. For subtitles, click on CC at the bottom right of the video and select English. Andrei…
On contemporary artist Walid Raad’s work in his recent solo exhibition at MoMA and on the changing politics of presenting art from the Middle East in the region and around the world. Final part of three. This question of temporality is directly related to the problematic of taxonomy engaged by Scratching . . ., and epitomized by ongoing debates…
On contemporary artist Walid Raad’s work in his recent solo exhibition at MoMA and on the changing politics of presenting art from the Middle East in the region and around the world. Second part of three. As Raad has often acknowledged, his work is indebted to the writings of the Lebanese artist and philosopher Jalal…
Prints, interviews artist and publisher Igor Shelkovsky in his Moscow studio during the C-MAP Central and Eastern European group trip in June 2015.
On contemporary artist Walid Raad’s work in his recent solo exhibition at MoMA and on the changing politics of presenting art from the Middle East in the region and around the world. First part of three. Over the past decade, major museums in Cairo, Copenhagen, Detroit, Doha, Kuwait, London, New York, and other cities have…
Chilean artists from the past three decades discuss their work, influences, and concerns working as Chileans in a post-Pinochet context. MoMA Program Manager Jason Dubs interviews Natalia Babarovic, Francisca Benítez, Felipe Mujica, and Johanna Unzueta about the context of their practices today.
Meghan Forbes examines the ways interwar periodicals blurred the boundaries between art and advertisement, creating international networks of exchange.
MoMA PS1 Associate Curator Jenny Schlenzka on the Taiwanese artist’s innovative posters documenting some of his extreme performances in New York City in the 1980s. The four posters in the collection of MoMA’s Library are part of One Year Performance 1981–1982 by Tehching Hsieh (Taiwanese, born 1950). To complete this work, which is often referred to as Outdoor…
