Tagged: New York

Bodies The Exhibition

65 Fascinating Facts About The Human Body

Seeing the Bodies…The Exhibition in New York last November reminded me of how fascinating the body I inhabit is. Featuring over 200 actual human bodies and specimens, meticulously dissected and...

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,...