Friday, October 30, 2009

Friday October 30 MoMA Outing


Rock and roll photography and more! For this Friday's outing, we'll see "Looking at Music: Side 2" and explore the Museum of Modern Art's legendary contemporary art collection. Meet in the MoMA lobby, on the 53rd St side.

Looking at Music: Side 2



In the mid-1970s, right on the heels of Conceptual art and Minimalism, many visual artists turned to making raw, hard-edged work that addressed urban blight and bad economies. With an ear set to punk, these artists worked in the netherworld between music and media, often forming their own short-lived bands. Their rough, do-it-yourself projects pushed the envelope of interdisciplinary experimentation, which soon spread to underground venues from New York to London, Düsseldorf, and Krakow. This exhibition features music videos, super-8 films, drawings, photographs, and zines from MoMA's collection that explore the melding of music, media, and visual art in the final decades leading up to the twenty-first century.

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