"As a museum of modern art, we need to take our time, " he says.
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Before dreaming up a plan for a museum of modern art, he started out as a film maker.
Where, except New York, would a curator put a metro station in a museum of modern art, and what restaurant could be more self-consciously Parisian than Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles in Manhattan?
One of the first surveys since a Museum of Modern Art retrospective in 2005, this one dwells on many of the themes that have made Mr. Friedlander the jazziest street photographer since Henri Cartier-Bresson and, at the age of 77, still one of the hardest-working of his breed.
Active not just on the fashion circuit but in several nonprofits, the New Yorker serves on the Education Committee for the Board of Trustees at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is a member of the International Committee of the Museum of Modern Art.
"The gallery wouldn't be nearly so interesting if there wasn't a gym behind it, " said Alanna Heiss, a training client of Mr. Hionas's and the founder of MoMA PS1, a contemporary-art space in Queens affiliated with the Museum of Modern Art.
Wolfgang has many good ideas that we add to our already packed schedule including a trip to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) because he loves modern art and also the possibility of a L.A. Dodgers game.
In 1970 came the laying on of hands: a one-man show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
The musician is currently organising a musical exhibition in San Francisco at the Museum of Modern Art, called 010101, which will attempt to create a musical environment for visitors.
To sell the Baccarat Residences, a 50-story glass condominium tower under construction across from the Museum of Modern Art in midtown Manhattan, a model set up in the building's showroom includes striking materials like lacquered ziricote-wood walls and a crackled bronze sculptural wall embedded with tiny pieces of glass made by a British artist.
In an otherwise glossy part of Midtown, just a few doors down from the ever-popular Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), stands the tiny, humble American Folk Art Museum.
Agnes Gund, an art patron who is the former president of the Museum of Modern Art, is a big donor to Democrats.
The money to pay for the townhouse was raised by the foundation from the sale of Twombly works last year that went to the Museum of Modern Art a few months before the artist died.
This month, the Museum of Modern Art opened a retrospective of Kraftwerk, its first for a musical act.
Now he glides between the boards of Facebook, Wal-Mart and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, with a stopover at the Academy Awards.
It's connected to Fios and lets you get real-time traffic, weather, maps, caller ID with photos, stores addresses and phone numbers--and can revert to a screen saver with images licensed from the Museum of Modern Art.
In 1940 he became the first head of the industrial design department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, where he organized a contemporary furniture competition that launched the careers of Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames.
MOMA. The nickname alone says a lot about New Yorkers' affection for the Museum of Modern Art.
Another major destination for art-lovers is MoMA PS1, part of the Museum of Modern Art, located in a former Long Island City public school.
Time off: Schrghuber, 36, supports a modern art museum in Munich and a program of free vacations for needy children.
It was only a grant at the end of his life from the Museum of Modern Art in New York that enabled him to work on (though not complete) the Merzbarn.
After the move, the building will become a new home for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of modern and contemporary art.
Those of us who worked for him, as I did, in my first job as his assistant curator at the Museum of Modern Art, were charged with finding a new "ism" weekly.
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In a pioneering initiative with Google, MIA and the nearby Arab Museum of Modern Art, also known as Mathaf, have become the only institutions in the Middle East to give visitors online access to their ever expanding art collections.
They print just 10, 000 copies, and leave them to be picked up at particular places, including the Standard Hotel and the Museum of Modern Art (though the excellent website adds a whole other layer, with featured videos of chosen subjects).
The China Art Gallery--a Sinified socialist-style building managed by the Chinese Artists Association and, at the time, only a few steps from the Ministry of Culture--functions as China's national museum of modern art.
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He describes a Christie's-sponsored tour of collectors' homes in 1995 when the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opened its new building.
Architect and academic Fritz Haeg, whose work has been exhibited at Tate Modern in London and the Whitney Museum of American Art, has written a book, "Edible Landscapes", in which he calls for our lawns to be replaced by beautiful spreads of fruit and vegetables.
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By the time the clarion call was sounded by the Museum of Modern Art's "Modern Architecture" show in 1932, he had become a master of the International style.
Last year, when the Museum of Modern Art appointed Quentin Bajac to be its new chief curator of photography, only a few New Yorkers knew much about the 47-year-old Frenchman except that his credentials were impeccable.
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