With powerfully alive new works at the Met and MoMA, the Iranian-born artist Nairy Baghramian embraces the canon, the better to take it apart.
Tag: Museum of Modern Art
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Ed Ruscha’s ‘Chocolate Room’ Still Tantalizes
“I was a little bit tired of making conventional pictures”: The artist on recreating his bittersweet installation, first seen in 1970, for the Museum of Modern Art.
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Ja’Tovia Gary Sets Her Sights on Love
The experimental artist discusses Black Southern storytelling, the blues and the guilt-free pleasures of a romance novel.
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For Some Culture Executives, a Housing Perk Is Rolled Back
Amid sensitivity over income inequality in their ranks as well as post-pandemic financial strains, several cultural organizations have reduced the housing benefit they provided former directors.
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Nigerian Photographers at MoMA: A Landscape of Organized Chaos
The museum’s first group show focusing on West Africa is a wide-ranging exhibition with history, nuance and grit.