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Luis Buñuel, MoMA hiree
Luis Buñuel, MoMA hiree
“When he asked if I was a Communist, I told him I was a Republican, and at the end of the conversation, I found myself working for The Museum of Modern Art.”
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Luis Buñuel, MoMA hiree
The small museum
The small museum
Its modesty permits an intimacy of acquaintance that a big-shot museum makes far more difficult.
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The small museum
Heads up
Heads up
Whoever designed the posters and their sequence must have put much thought into — and taken much pleasure from — the work.
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Heads up
Goodbye, “M”
Goodbye, “M”
First the Metropolitan Museum of Art ended the use of the “M” admission button, and now it’s doing away with the “M” altogether, a beautiful and art-historical “M.”
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Goodbye, “M”
The Armory Show
The Armory Show
The Art Institute of Chicago has online a virtual trek through the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art, the exhibition known as th...
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The Armory Show
Museo Faggiano
Museo Faggiano
I am relieved that our plumber did not unearth centuries of Italian history when he replaced a pipe in our bathroom last fall.
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Museo Faggiano
Farewell, 45 West 53rd
Farewell, 45 West 53rd
“I am reminded of what I have seen in my old Brooklyn neighborhood and my old New Jersey suburb: houses purchased and destroyed so that new owners can build whatever. Intelligent use: not.”
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Farewell, 45 West 53rd
On joining a museum
On joining a museum
“We live at a great distance, and we visit just a few times a year. But as a helpful fellow at the ticket counter pointed out yesterday, just two visits a year would recoup the cost.”
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On joining a museum