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“Home Delivery” @ MoMA

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Rohin Guha

“Home Delivery” @ MoMA New York's MoMA has always been thorough in their multicultural exhibits, and their newest installation, which explores the phenomenon of mass-produced architecture in the suburbs, has been long in the making. Lacking samurai armor or connections to dead languages, "Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling" is definitely one of the more novel meditations of setting and culture at any museum. Sure, any New Yorker can hop on a train from Grand Central to Westchester. But for the uninitiated (or for those who won't spring $20 for a round-trip train ticket), the MoMA exhibit is far more revelatory, recasting pre-fab living as an exotic beast in its own right.

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New York Falls for Water

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Vanita Salisbury

New York Falls for Water Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson is taking over New York. His exhibit "Take Your Time" currently spans MoMA and its edgier Queens appendage, P.S.1. His work is included in the recent Icelandic Art exhibit at the Scandinavia House. And his Spatial Vibration show Tanya Bonakdar Gallery just closed in early June.


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Graffiti Research Lab Invades MoMA!

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Ben Barna

Graffiti Research Lab Invades MoMA! Graffiti is as ubiquitous in New York as the sky and the buildings that scrape them. Until nowish. Time.com has published an article on James Powderly and Evan Roth, graffers who’ve taken their art form off the streets, into the lab, and back onto the streets again. The duo uses a form of graffiti they call laser-tagging, which is a short-term, invisible paint that is only revealed once splashed in the light of a special projector. Instead of a can, they use a laser pointer. Tough to fathom, to be sure. Roth and Powderly have tattooed everything from the underbelly of the Brooklyn Bridge to the tech-towers of Hong Kong. Videos of their projections make for popular YouTube clips, and can be seen on their website GraffitiResearchLab.com. And, instead of law enforcement taking notice, it’s caught the attention of museum curators. The MoMA is even featuring their work at their "Design and The Elastic Mind" exhibit, which runs until May 12th. Check out a video of their work after the jump.

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