Museum of Modern Art
Tiona Nekkia McClodden Is Not Running Away
PHILADELPHIA — The artist Tiona Nekkia McClodden hit the gun range on a sweltering Monday in July. The air was sticky inside the facility, but her routine would not be denied. She shoots every week and avoids weekends, when the range gets crowded and loud with men firing off assault-type rifles, inviting sensory overload. It […]
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Father Doesn’t Know Best at New Directors/New Films
In a springy sign of optimism — illusionary or otherwise! — this year’s New Directors/New Films is returning to theaters full throttle. New York’s Covid numbers are creeping up again, but the festival, a joint venture of Film at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art, has ditched the virtual for the physical. So, […]
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Police ID Suspect in Stabbing of MoMA Employees
A man who was denied entry to the Museum of Modern Art because his membership had been revoked jumped over the reception desk and stabbed two employees on Saturday afternoon, the police said. The attack was captured by surveillance video from the museum on West 53rd Street that police released on Sunday along with photos […]
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When Architects Made Worlds
Rahul Mehrotra, the architect and Harvard professor, writes in the catalog about the challenge of housing. Faced with millions of refugees, the new nations of South Asia ended up proliferating developments that doubled down on centuries of class division. Islamabad was built for Pakistan’s military and bureaucratic elites. Refugees and the poor were settled in […]
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Why Does the Demolition of a Marcel Breuer House Matter?
LAWRENCE, N.Y. — “Are people going to care about one little house?” asked Elizabeth Waytkus, who had been alerted some weeks ago to the possibility that a once-celebrated house by the architect Marcel Breuer would be demolished. She is the executive director of Docomomo US, a nonprofit organization that promotes the preservation of modern structures. […]
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Joseph E. Yoakum Isn’t Who You Think
Born around 1891, the self-taught artist Joseph E. Yoakum spent most of his youth as a runaway working for traveling circuses. Before a dream inspired him to start making uncanny landscape drawings at the age of 71, he had already served in World War I, walked away from an early marriage and five children, crisscrossed […]
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Best Art Books of 2021
In a lockdown year, with travel reduced, there was no movable feast quite like an art book. Art is made by all sorts of people, everywhere, all the time, along many different paths, some of which are illuminated by these intriguing publications chosen by our critics. Holland Cotter’s Favorites ‘Ray Johnson c/o’ The maverick American […]
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