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In MoMA and UNIQLO’s Art for All video series, we explore an artist’s unique approach to capturing the world around them. In this episode, filmmaker John Wilson invites us into his world, where his ...
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Odessa Roberts Matsubara joined MoMA in 2017 as the Director of Human Resources and was promoted to Chief Human Resources Officer in 2018. In this role, she leads a team that supports the Museum in ...
“YOU GOTTA BE ABLE TO THINK LIKE JOHN COLTRANE TO DO WHAT I AM DOING IN PAINTING: THE LIGHT EXIST IN SHEETS, JUST LIKE COLTRANE TOLD ME.” —Jack Whitten, 2006, as quoted in Notes from the Woodshed, p.
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Narrator: In the 1980s, Whitten began using plaster of Paris to make molds from everyday objects. Artist, Jack Whitten: I'm doing things like making molds of manhole covers, molds taken from the ...
Artist, Jack Whitten: You should make your own tool. Don’t just depend upon the brush. That’s why I don’t even use the word to “paint” anymore. I say, I “make” a painting. I’ve changed the verb from ...
Artist, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt: The ‘80s was the Reagan era, then AIDS come in and all my friends are dying. But I never want my art to just be locked in as a kind of isolated gay thing. The art is ...
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Artist, Marlene Dumas: This painting started with myself, or me looking at myself, in this sort of awkward position of being, you know, the blonde, friendly, spontaneous woman—which is an old problem ...
Artist, Marlene Dumas: Don't Talk to Strangers is a very good example of the first period of my stay in Holland, because at that stage I thought I was not going to paint again. I discovered these big ...