“El Amazonas nunca ha estado así de bajo,” me dijo el artista Santiago Yahuarcani mientras le estrechaba la mano. Estábamos en su casa, en el pueblo de Pebas, en la región de Loreto, Perú, el pasado ...

One of the most influential characterizations of clock time was in Lewis Mumford’s book Technics and Civilization, in which he insisted that the clock, not the steam engine, was the most important ...

In April 2000, The Museum of Modern Art’s director, Glenn D. Lowry, joined other American museum directors to present testimony before the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets, ...

GLENN LOWRY: By the 1970s, performance art had achieved a level of notoriety and even acceptance. However, because many artists used their bodies aggressively in their performances, it was often ...

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Narrator: Edward James, a British poet and patron of Surrealism, commissioned Magritte to make this portrait in 1937, titled Not to be Reproduced. Curator, Art Institute of Chicago, Stephanie ...

One morning in the summer of 1952, Matisse told his studio assistant and secretary Lydia Delectorskaya that “he wanted to see divers,” so they set out to a favorite pool in Cannes. Suffering under the ...

Paola Antonelli joined The Museum of Modern Art in 1994 and is the Museum’s Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design, as well as MoMA’s founding Director of Research and Development ...

Narrator: – or is it an old, rusty bicycle seat and some handlebars? Narrator: Picasso was walking home one day and saw a bicycle seat and handlebars lying on the side of the road. The second he saw ...

Curator, T. Lax: Before you is a zine made by the artist, Kandiss Williams, who runs Cassandra Press in Los Angeles. It's a reprint of the essay "Venus in Two Acts" written by cultural historian ...