Posts Tagged ‘Museum of Modern Art’

Taryn Simon’s Daunting Portraits at the MoMA

Written by Marsha McCreadie on . Posted in Arts & Film, Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, Museums, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

  Taryn Simon’s gotcha pics guilt the art world by Marsha McCreadie One is always suspicious of an exhibit where you have to strain to “get it” by going to the wall text, then to the images, then back to the text, and so on. Such is the case with A Living Man Declared Dead
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Summer Guide to Music

Written by NYPress on . Posted in Arts & Film, Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, Healthy Manhattan, Music, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, Special Sections, West Side Spirit

Summer Stage RANDALL’s ISLAND Governors Ball This year’s version of the now-regular outdoor festival moves from its previous home on Governors Island to Randall’s Island but retains a strong lineup. Saturday has a dancey, up-tempo set of acts, including Passion Pit, Chromeo, James Murphy and indie rap stalwarts Atmosphere. Sunday slows things down with guitar soundtrack maestros
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Petty, Human and Perfect: Sherman, Rembrandt and Degas in Portrait

Written by City Arts on . Posted in Arts & Film, Arts our town, Our Town

By Mario Naves What would art be without fiction—that is to say, without the allusive sweep of metaphor? Literature, music, painting, poetry, dance, film—you name it, every medium thrives when it embodies something beyond its material means. “Art that conceals art” is old news, of course, but that’s not to say it isn’t desirable or,
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