Museum of Modern Art

Connie Butler of MoMA goes to Hammer Museum as new chief curator

2013-05-16 13:05:00

After more than a year-long search, the Hammer Museum has hired Connie Butler, currently the chief curator of drawings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as its chief curator. She is leaving that position by July 1 in order to assume her L.A. post...

A. Quincy Jones, overlooked genius? Hammer Museum makes the case

2013-05-17 16:19:00

The Hammer Museum exhibition opening May 25, "A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living," redresses what curators consider a major omission in the history of Los Angeles Modernism. Jones, they argue, had as much, if not more, influence on Southern...

New York City secret photo exhibition: Art or invasion of privacy?

2013-05-17 07:40:00

Residents of a Tribeca apartment building are fuming over a new exhibition of photographs in which they star -- and which were taken without their knowledge. Some of the residents are considering legal action, the New York Post reported. The apartment...

Cannes 2013: Chile's onetime cult king still the wizard of weird

2013-05-16 12:39:00

CANNES, France — The Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky has made only seven features in his nearly half-century career, but his legendary midnight movie "El Topo," a wigged-out peyote western that played to New York audiences for months in 1970,...

'The Real Indies: A Close Look at Orphan Films' takes in strays

2013-05-08 16:00:00

Lost works, home movies, industrial films, abandoned technologies and other assorted cinematic ephemera all fall under the umbrella of miscellany known as "orphan film." The strange mix of the odd and slightly sad gets its own festival at the Linwood Dunn...

reFramed: In conversation with WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY curator Anne Wilkes Tucker

2013-05-01 03:05:07

MOCA's 'A New Sculpturalism' faces uncertain future without Gehry

2013-05-03 05:00:00

Frank Gehry has pulled out of a major architecture exhibition set to open June 2 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, a move that could force the show to find a new venue or face the prospect of being canceled altogether. The exhibition, "A New...

Museum of Modern Art launches free-admission promotions

2013-05-02 14:49:00

At $25, general admission to the Museum of Modern Art in New York is among the highest in the nation. This month, the museum is promoting a word that its visitors don't hear very often: free. MoMA is kicking off a series of free-admission offers...

Online provider offers courses in education, teacher training

2013-04-30 21:00:00

A leading online course provider announced Wednesday that it will offer free professional training and development courses to prepare teachers worldwide for Web-based classes. Coursera, a for-profit clearinghouse for online and videotaped courses...

Southern California architecture: the missing early years from PSTP

2013-04-06 07:00:00

Two years ago, when the Getty Trust helped organize and fund more than five dozen exhibits on 20th century art in Los Angeles, a massive enterprise it labeled "Pacific Standard Time," it wasn't difficult to guess which era the museum would focus on. It...

William Wilson dies at 78; former Times art critic

2013-04-23 00:00:00

For William Wilson, the former Los Angeles Times art critic who died Saturday at the age of 78, art was a childhood refuge, a teenage survival mechanism, and, finally, a career that saw him chronicle the city's rise in art-world stature from his first...

The jarring reality and artful beauty of photography

2013-04-20 09:00:00

I wonder if the curators of the excellent "War/Photography" show at the Annenberg Space for Photography were tempted to include Jeff Wall's "Dead Troops Talk (A Vision After an Ambush of a Red Army Patrol, Near Moqor, Afghanistan, Winter, 1986)". It...

People stand in the new Rain Room installation at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York May 17, 2013. The 5,000 square-foot installation creates a field of falling water that stops in the area where people walk through, which allows them to remain dry.

2013-05-17 00:00:00

Visitors gather in the new 'Rain Room' installation at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Manhattan in New York City. The 5,000 square-foot installation creates a field of falling water that stops in the area where people walk through, allowing them to remain dry.

2013-05-15 00:00:00

A view of the interior of New York's Museum of Modern Art.

2013-05-01 22:02:29