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...grapple with categorizing the art. “What an exhibition like this does,” says Lentz, “is to really call into question the popular perceptions and notions of what is modern, what is contemporary. You could take a curator of contemporary art from MoMA and they would look at these paintings and say, ‘This is not my idea of contemporary Chinese art.’ You could take another curator from another museum, and they might looks at this and say, ‘Yes, I understand what this...
...been talking to Puryear about Maroon, a large, dark, bulbous form made mostly from wood and wire mesh covered with tar. The piece is part of his triumphant retrospective that opens Nov. 4 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, which was organized by John Elderfield, MOMA's chief curator of painting and sculpture. As soon as I brought up the beauty problem, Puryear agreed. It took me a minute to realize we were talking past each other. He thought the work was so challenging to ordinary notions of what's pleasing to the eye "that...
...Chinese city of Dujiangyan announced it was lavishing some of the nation's top contemporary artists with their very own museums, but the ploy likely won't draw more than the occasional tourist to this remote part of the country. That leaves Western institutions like New York City's MOMA or London's Tate Modern to cherry-pick the best Asian works. "Most of the Vietnamese old masters' works are in foreign countries now," says Tran Phuong Mai, who runs Mai Gallery in Hanoi, referring to artists like Bui Xuan Phai, who died in 1988 and was so destitute that...
...each film and write an essay about the glamour and preservation of movie stills. In early 2002, just as the book was to be published, Mary was abruptly laid off by the Museum in a move many saw as punishment for her very active role in a strike of MoMA staff members 18 months earlier. (For a fuller discussion of this story, see here.) Mary's layoff, and the closing of the Still Archive, became a cause celebre, and many film professionals rose to her defense; but the first one was Roger, who wrote an outraged letter...
...University of California at Santa Barbara, Serra took a degree in literature. But from there he went on to Yale's famous graduate program in art. Eventually he settled in New York and started the work with lead that brought him to his triumphs in steel. The MOMA show will merely certify the stature he earned years ago. At the dawn of the 21st century, an era of cyberspace, reproduction and the Internet, no one is doing more to make work that stands for the ancient and mysterious power of the real...