Blue Star Museums Blog has posted a new item, 'What's on View at MoMA'
August 31, 2011
New York, New York
By Ann Waller Curtis
Summer---and the Blue Star Museums program---may be winding down, but you still have a few days to savor the treasures of some of the finest museums in America.
Heading to New York for the long holiday weekend? Be sure to visit The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and experience some of the best that contemporary art has to offer.
Founded in 1929 as an educational institution, MoMA benefited from growing support for a museum dedicated exclusively to modern art, moving and expanding several times before landing in its current location. The first gift to the museum was modest---eight prints and one drawing---but the museum’s collection has quickly become into one of the premier modern art collections in the world.
MoMA seeks to honor its origins by offering an array of educational programs and events to accompany its exhibitions.
With extended summer hours and a jam-packed exhibition schedule, MoMA offers something for everyone: film, design, performance art, or the more traditional museum mediums of painting and sculpture.
Kacie Kinzer. Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Tweenbot. 2009. Cardboard, paper, ink, batteries, motor,
and wheels. 36 x 8 1/2 x 14" (91.4 x 21.6 x 35.6 cm). Installation view at The
Museum of Modern Art, 2011. Photo © Scott Rudd.
Talk to Me: Design and Communication Between People and Objects (July 24, 2011 – November 7, 2011)
Looking to grow a few inches before the end of the summer? MoMA can help. Step into a pair of robotic shoes and use the accompanying iPhone app to become taller---or shorter. MoMA’s much-buzzed about exhibition Talk to Me creates a unique, remarkably relevant dialogue between visitors and objects, machine and man. The highly interactive exhibit is appropriate in today’s technology and information-driven world, where we seem to converse as much with our iPhones, laptops, and iPads as we do with each other. These devices and others are outlined in the clever “Hierarchy of Digital Distractions,” a food pyramid-inspired chart that ranks the distractability levels of what have now become routine intrusions. This poster is one of the 194 objects included in the exhibit, each of which has its own hashtag and QR code so the viewer can learn more either on the spot or once they get home. React, interact, and interface your way through this challenging and timely exhibit!
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