The Museum of Modern Art

Dancing festivals may not seem the most normal place to start increasing your vocabulary, but believe it or not, it was during one of these long drawn out affairs, whilst sitting in pink church in Blackpool in costume with full stage make up waiting to go on stage that I learnt a thing or two. In dancing festivals you have categories for style, as well as for age and level, so you might find “Baby Ballet” or “C Tap”. On this ...
...offering Contemporary and not knowing the difference, I turned to Mummy dearest to ask. Do you know the difference? Sorry if you do, just skip to the next paragraph. If you don’t, though, bear with me for a few, well, words. Contemporary, it appears, means modern to the time. Modern means modern now. See? So while all modern dances are currently contemporary, not all contemporary dances are modern. This does tie in to the museum, but you have ...

zoe_page 17.01.2003 · Read full review
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The Museum of Morden Art is great for a visit, but wear comfortable shoes and be prepared for the wired as well as wonderful. I visited this museum on a recent trip to New York and found the art works facinating. The ground floor houses the more main stream works by people like Monet, Picasso and the like As you pass though the five upper floors the art work becomes more detached and post-modern. The museum houses permenant and touring pieces of ...
...all tastes in modern art. The artists are too numerous to mention as are the pieces. Needless to say art is everywhere to be seen. The lower levels house the cinema, a theatre, self service cafe and small shop. The second floor houses a shop and a formal resturant. This is a roomy museum and caters well for non-English speaking and disabled visitors very well. There are stairs, lifts and esculators to all floors. If you are a student do not forget ...

wulise 08.12.2000 · Read full review
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...came about mainly because of the atrocities and insanity of World War 1, and it tried to find and experiment with new forms of art in an attempt to refresh the creative act. After the end of the war in 1918, Dada spread to Germany, (Berlin, Cologne, Hanover), where it was to rebel against fascist policies of the up-and-coming far right movements, as shown by the rise to power of the Nazi party. Dada was important in Art history as it paved the way ...
...Many of the artists working in dada later became influential and active within surrealism. Although Dada groups existed in several forms for longer and shorter periods in other areas such in Paris, Italy, the Netherlands and New York. It's real and its proper home has always been in Zurich (Switzerland), and also a bit in post world war 1 Germany. Surrealism was founded in 1924 in reaction to the materialism of the Western World. Breton’s ...

mudvein 25.04.2001 · Read full review
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Am I the only one these days that thinks Modern Art has gotten completely out of hand? Whereas I used to get thrills from the prospect of visiting various “hipper” museums a few years ago, now I just shudder at the thought of being faced with unimaginative, and let’s just say it, perfectly ordinary things. I was flipping through the Evening Standard’s Metro Life magazine tonight, and was almost appalled at what caught my attention in the Art section. ...
...Sure, this ball was roughly the size of a small room, but with the piece entitled ‘Boulder’, it hardly stirred up overwhelming appreciation. Hephzibah Anderson of Metro Life wrote, “The Jerwood Platform provides artists with a survey at pivotal moments in their career…Highlights here include ‘Boulder’, a sphere of brown packing tape begun in 1996, and now mow than 1m in diameter.” No doubt that creating this large ball was incredibly taxing for ...

HobKnobette 10.01.2004 · Read full review
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