Guggenheim to pick 20 YouTube videos for museum display

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Guggenheim to pick 20 YouTube videos for museum display “YouTube Play, which launched Monday, is a partnership between the video site and the renowned art museum. It invites users to submit their short creative videos at http://youtube.com/play. The top 20, chosen by a jury of professional artists, will be on view this fall at Guggenheim museums around the world.”

“Tim Burton” at the Museum of Modern Art

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From New York Times article by Ken Johnson “Tim Burton’s career is the ultimate revenge of the art nerd. Mr. Burton, the self-professed alienated child of a dysfunctional family in Burbank, Calif., who funneled his loneliness, pain and grief into drawing cartoons, has found fame, fortune and a beautiful companion (Helena Bonham Carter) by telling cinematic tales of sensitive misfits …

Best Art Exhibition; High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture

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I love having the time to think about things like, “what is the best Art exhibition I have ever seen?” My answer would be: High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture At the time the New York Times wrote a scathing article about the exhibition and Robert Hughes wrote an article for Time Magazine.  Kirk Varnedoe understood that the …

The Ordinary As Object of Desire

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A kettle by John G. Rideout (1936) EXHIBITION REVIEW “What Was Good Design? MoMA’s Message 1944-56” runs through Nov. 30 at the Museum of Modern Art, (212) 708-9400 Museum of Modern Art Website Article By Roberta Smith From the New York Times, June 5, 2009 “What is good design?” may not be one of life’s great existential questions, but it …