Tagged: Art

Can Your Memory Fit In A Chest Of Drawers?

If I had the choice of taking a piece from the New York Museum of Modern Art‘s collection, it would be this chest of drawers made by Dutch designer Tejo Remy in...

Typefaces at MoMA

A Look At Typography’s Digital Phase

One of my favorite galleries at the New York Museum of Modern Art were the Architecture and Design galleries. When I visited the Museum in late November 2011, there was...

Lunar Sentence II

When The Moon Speaks

The New York Museum of Modern Art recently acquired Leandro Katz’s 1978/1979 lunar photography (gelatin silver prints), through which he created an alphabet and a message. The decoded sentence reads, “When...

How To Be Suited For Subversion

Suited for Subversion – 2002 Nylon-reinforced PVC, padding, speaker, and pulse reader Ralph Borland South African, born 1974 Exhibited at the New York Museum of Modern Art, this civil-disobedience suit,...

R.S.V.P. I

How Elastic Is The Human Body?

On a recent trip to New York, I visited the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). There I wandered the Museum’s various galleries of permanent collections, and exhibitions, covering paintings, sculptures, drawings,...

Expressing Sexuality Through Art

To commemorate World Sexual Health Day (September 4), an art exhibit entitled “Good Sex/ Bad Sex/ No Sex/ Your Sex” was held at AltCity, in Hamra. “Sexuality is such a...