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...Appreciation. New York's MoMA offers a private guided tour with an expert. The hour-long "Tours for Two" take place after the galleries are closed to the public, and run each Saturday in February starting at 5:30 p.m. Stick around afterwards and have dinner at Danny Meyer's Modern restaurant, where the duck confit can't be beat. The tours are $200, but members get $25 off this price. Feb 7, 14, 21 and 28. 11 West 53rd St.; 212-708-9685 groupservices@moma.org...
...held a bit at arm's length. The Museum of Modern Art in New York City owns his most famous canvas, Christina's World, which it acquired in 1948, soon after it was painted, for just $1,800. But while the picture is always on display at MoMA, it's consigned to what you might call an anteroom on the margins of the more respectably modern galleries, a salon des refuses that it shares with Edward Hopper's House by the Railroad. Seeing Christina splayed across her field of grass, gazing toward that house on the horizon, it's easy...
...dubious moment of Helga. It's all those other quiet, elusive canvases that will stay with us. The canons of art history have loosened quite a bit in recent decades, enough so that no full picture of the modern world can exclude what he did. Who knows? Someday MoMA may even bring Christina all the way in from the cold...
...Wall. New York's MoMA takes an intensive look at a decade of work by Spanish artist Joan Miró, with Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937. The show is based around Miro's famous declaration that he wanted to "assassinate painting," and examines his energetic attempts to transcend the medium through collage, drawing - and painting. Through Jan. 12, 2009. 11 West 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, New York City...
...museums, that artists such as Warhol and Jasper Johns first got the opportunity to present their works to a larger audience—alongside mannequins dressed in the latest styles, of course. For the average American, then, walking down the streets of New York was like walking through the MoMA. Pop Art’s legacy is made manifest in that five-dollar Hanes t-shirt emblazoned with Bush’s face displayed alongside Goyas and Picassos (as it was two years ago in the Fogg’s exhibit, “DISSENT...