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Footage from the installation of Cage sans Frontières as part of the exhibition Ron Arad: No Discipline at moma. View the exhibition site at www.moma.org Additional footage courtesy of BASICS09 Music: Desconocido by Fósforo, courtesy of Free Music Archive © 2009 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Katie Paterson
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Since graduating from the Slade School of Fine Art last year, Katie Paterson has had solo shows at the Matthew Bown Gallery, ROOM, and Modern Art Oxford, and spent a month moongazing in Japan. Her recent works include Earth-Moon-Earth, the transmission of Beethovens Moonlight Sonata to the moon and back – resulting in fragmented composition being transmitted on a self-playing grand piano and Vatnajökull – a live phone line to an Icelandic glacier. Both works were first presented at Patersons MFA degree show in 2007 and restaged at her acclaimed solo show at Modern Art Oxford this year. Forthcoming exhibitions include Albion, London and New York; Tsekh Gallery, Kiev, and Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009.
On View December 13, 2009-March 1, 2010 For more information, please visit www.moma.org Images courtesy of Gabriel Orozco Music: “¿Quién? (Suite)” and “Dar (Qué difícil)” by Juana Molina. Courtesy of the artist and Domino Publishing. For more information please visit www.juanamolina.com © 2009 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Art Of The Steal 2009 – Official HD Movie Trailer (In theaters: February 26, 2010) A celebrated selection of the Sundance, Toronto, New York and AFI Film Festivals, Don Argotts gripping documentary THE ART OF THE STEAL chronicles the long and dramatic struggle for control of the Barnes Foundation, a private collection of art valued at more than $25 billion. A riveting look at the divisive politics of powerful institutions, the film is an un-missable investigation of the one of the art worlds most fascinating controversies. In 1922, Dr. Albert C. Barnes formed a remarkable educational institution around his priceless collection of Post-Impressionist and early Modern art, located just five miles outside of Philadelphia. At its inception, the citys cultural elite had scorned the collection as horrible, debased art, but soon times and tastes changed. Now, more than 50 years after Barnes death, a powerful group of moneyed interests have gone to court for control of the art, and intend bring it to a new museum in Philadelphia. Standing in their way is a vocal group of Barnes former students, and Barnes will, which contained strict instructions stating the Foundation shall always be an educational institution, and the paintings may never be removed. Will they succeed, or will a mans will be broken and one of Americas greatest cultural monuments be destroyed?