The Museum of Modern Art has worked on a meticulous restoration of Chaplin’s 1918 film “Shoulder Arms,” screening on Thursday, that likely differs in every frame from what viewers have seen.
Category: Museum of Modern Art
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Museum Gift Shops Elevate Their Watch Lines
Recent designs include a collaboration with an award-winning architect and an elaborate pocket watch.
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Why Are Museums So Afraid of Hans Haacke?
As cultural institutions face an existential crisis over who funds them and how, the 88-year-old artist Hans Haacke is still making curators and collectors clutch their pearls.
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It’s the Summer of Powell and Pressburger in New York
The British filmmaking team were maestros of Technicolor and so much more. If you don’t know their work, your favorite directors do.
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One Designer’s Take on the Perfect Silver Chain
Plus: a bright boutique hotel in Laos, dance music at MoMA and more recommendations from T Magazine.
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Julianne Moore, Chloë Sevigny and Others Celebrate the Dia Beacon Museum
A springtime benefit and 50th anniversary celebration at Dia Beacon in New York’s Hudson Valley brought together an array of cultural figures.
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‘Man’s Castle’: Free Love, Hard Times
Restored to its original length and screening at the Museum of Modern Art, this 1933 movie starring Spencer Tracy feels at once surprisingly frank and disquietingly coy.
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At New Directors/New Films, the Kids Are Not All Right (Nobody Really Is)
This year’s edition of the festival tends toward familiar art-house fare, but there are standouts in which characters young and old grapple with childhood.
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Once You Watch an Ernie Gehr Film, You’ll Never See the World the Same Way
A MoMA series shows how the artist pushes the boundaries of cinema in short movies that both delight and baffle.
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Meet Joan Jonas, One of America’s Most Elusive Artists
Joan Jonas’s maximalist, category-defying work combines video, performance, folklore, sculpture and ecology. At 87, she still has no intention of simplifying anything.
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Did This Couple Inspire Edward Albee’s ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’?
A newly preserved Andy Warhol film documents a combative artist couple the playwright knew. The movie is premiering in MoMA’s To Save and Project.
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Grace Wales Bonner Has Set Her Sights Beyond Fashion
The designer has made waves with fashion that infuses European heritage with Afro-Atlantic spirit. Now she has curated an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.