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Publisher: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Mies in Berlin/Mies in America 
 Includes drawings, scale models, video and digital displays, photographs, a bibliography, and a biography of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. From the Museum of Modern Art, New York. http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2001/mies/ Topics: Architecture, Museums, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States Last updated Oct 5, 2009 Groundswell: Constructing Contemporary Landscape
This exhibit features information about pieces of land that have been reclaimed from "obsolete and degraded sites" and made into public spaces such as gardens, parks, and museum campuses. Browse an interactive world map to explore more than 20 urban landscape projects. All entries provide basic information about the site, and some provide additional visual angles, schematic plans, or a longer description. From the Museum of Modern Art, New York. http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2005/groundswell/ Topics: Architecture, Gardening, Museums Last updated Oct 8, 2009 Artists of Brücke: Themes in German Expressionist Prints
A collection of over 120 German Expressionist prints. Browsable by theme (city, cabaret, retreat, nudes, exotic influences, portraits, Christian motifs, literary connections), artist (Heckel, Kirchner, Mueller, Nolde, Pechstein, Schmidt-Rottluff), and medium (woodcut, lithograph, intaglio). Includes chronology (1898-1926), map, and background information on the Brücke (bridge) group and its artists. From the Museum of Modern Art, New York. http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2002/brucke/ Topics: Art by Region, Artists, Schools of Art Last updated Jul 29, 2009 Fame After Photography
This illustrated essay "lets visitors gain a perspective on how, since 1839, fame has been driven and transformed by photography." Includes related quotes from celebrities. Online companion to 1999 exhibit of the same name at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1999/fameafterphotography/ Topics: Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Photography, Technology Last updated Sep 14, 2009 Documenting a Feminist Past: Art World Critique
This 2007 exhibition "documents feminist critique of art institutions from 1969 to the present." Features a listing of the exhibit items (with selected images) and video and audio archives of the accompanying symposium in its entirety, which included a keynote address by writer and activist Lucy Lippard and panel discussions on topics such as "Activism/Race/Geopolitics" and "Writing the History of Feminism." From the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/37 Topics: Art, Women Last updated Mar 11, 2009 Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today
Companion to a 2008 exhibition that "takes as its point of departure the commercial color chart, an item that openly declares the status of color as mass-produced and standardized. ... This exhibit features the work of forty-four artists who take a position in which art and life mingle rather than remain separate." View works by artist, medium, or time period. Artists include Ellsworth Kelly and Sol LeWitt. From the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/colorchart/flashsite/index.html Topics: Art Last updated Apr 23, 2009 Design and the Elastic Mind
Companion to a 2008 exhibition that "highlights designers' ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and history -- changes that demand or reflect major adjustments in human behavior -- and translate them into objects that people can actually understand and use. The Web site presents over three hundred of those works." Browse through works in areas such as tinkering, people and objects, and visualization. From the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/ Topics: Technology Last updated Aug 11, 2009 Book/Shelf
Companion to an exhibit of modern art in the shape of books, which are "difficult to categorize. ... The works presented here use a variety of techniques -- photography, film printing, assemblage, drawing, and sound recording." View highlights of works by artists such as Dieter Roth, Edward Ruscha, and Brian Belott. From the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/bookshelf/ Topics: Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts, Schools of Art Last updated Jul 29, 2009 Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Companion to a 2008/2009 exhibit exploring painter Vincent Van Gogh's "nocturnal interiors and landscapes, which often combine with other longstanding themes of his art -- peasant life, sowers, wheatfields, and the encroachment of modernity on the rural scene." View "paintings, drawings, and letters from all periods of his career, as well as examples of the rich literary sources that influenced his work." Also includes audio commentary. From the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/vangoghnight/ Topics: Last updated Sep 22, 2009 Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937
Website companion to this exhibit about Spanish artist Joan Miró that "opens with a series of paintings on unprimed canvas made in Paris in early 1927. ... It concludes with 1937's singular, hallucinatory painting 'Still Life with Old Shoe', the result of Miró's abrupt return to working from life." View exhibition images by series (with essays at the start), chronologically, and by relative size. Includes an exhibition checklist. From the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). http://media.moma.org/subsites/2008/miro/ Topics: Artists Last updated Jul 29, 2009 Robert Indiana: LOVE
Image of and publication excerpt about artist Robert Indiana's "LOVE" screenprint. The site notes that "[f]ew Pop images are more widely recognized than Indiana's LOVE. Originally designed as a Christmas card commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art in 1965, LOVE has appeared in prints, paintings, sculptures, banners, rings, tapestries, and stamps." Includes a link to a biography of Indiana. From the Museum of Modern Art. http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A2812&page_number=5&template_id=1&sort_order=1 Topics: Schools of Art Last updated Feb 4, 2009 |
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