The New Museum may have a giant slide on the Bowery but the MoMA has free food uptown. Well, free if you've already got a membership to the museum, otherwise it'll cost you $25. Because the curry that they are serving on the museum's second floor? It's art, baby. more ›

Remember how people used to think we'd be cooking on the moon by year 2000? AquaVelvet dug up these futurescapes (plus a few more) from the 1972 "Italy: The New Domestic Landscape [pdf]" exhibit at the MoMA, while PaleoFuture has a full rundown of vintage "kitchen of the future" ads from the '50s, '60s and '70s. Space-aged refrigerators, seated dishwashers, stovetops with built-in pots and pans—it's 2011 and we're still waiting. Future, are you out there? If you can hear us, tell Rosie we want pork chops for dinner. more ›

A respected architect and designer whose work is in the permanent collection of MoMA died yesterday, two weeks after he was beaten during a mugging. South African-born architect Gerald Abramovitz, 82, was best known for his minimalist cantilever desk lamp, which he made for Best & Lloyd, and which is featured in MoMA. "He was a very dynamic, creative, charming person. He had the exuberance of an 18-year-old, and he was still designing," his friend Gene Koretz told the WSJ. more ›

Every first Thursday of the month (through June), MoMA stays open a bit late, opens up a cash bar, serves patrons a prix-fixe meal, and invites a deejay over. Tonight that deejay is Ad Rock of the Beastie Boys, who will be spinning from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. (more details here). Bonus: Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre will also be on hand—it was just announced that she'll be collaborating with Horovitz on a Runaways tribute. more ›

Courtney Love may have been touring around with her band Hole recently, but her band was severely different from the original lineup. On Monday the original four will band together again, however, for a screening of Hit So Hard at MoMA—a documentary about former Hole drummer Patty Schemel (clip below). more ›

Has this year's Marina Abramovic arrived? Five piano players (rotating) have trapped themselves in the middle of a piano for a performance piece at MoMA. WCBS went to check out the work—created by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla—which consists of a piano player standing inside of a carved hole in the piano, and playing Beethoven... upside down. Each performance lasts about 30 minutes, during which time the player is also pushing the piano around; Julliard grad Evan Shinners says, “It’s got some good wheels. I’m driving a piano. It’s a hybrid." Ladies and gents, he'll be there all weekend (the performance only goes through Monday). more ›

2010: the year many a New Yorker gazed into the eyes of Marina Abramovic, as she set up shop at MoMA. Now all of those who got to sit across from her (like those VIPs), will get the moment immortalized in a book. According to Animal, Aperture’s publishing a book of Marco Anelli’s photographs—all 1500+ of them that were taken during her 716 hour seated run at the museum. Get more details here... but we're gonna hold out for the IMAX 3-D version. Make it happen, Franco. more ›

Last night Marina Abramović and her VIPs gathered at MoMA for a closing celebration of the artist's retrospective there. Our invite must have gotten lost in the mail (it seems superfans like Paco Blancas and Josephine Decker also didn't earn their way in), but here's a look at who was in attendance, including Courtney Love and her new face. more ›

Marina Abramović may not be present at MoMA anymore, but her internet presence will never die. We got in touch with one of the performance artist's final (and controversial) face-to-face guests, who until now has just been referred to as the streaker. 29-year-old Josephine Decker (who camped out to be first in line) did indeed strip down for Marina during her last day of "The Artist Is Present," but why? Here's what she told us: more ›

The Marina Abramović retrospective has now officially ended, with all of the prolific performance artist's pieces—the naked strangers, the skeleton draped over flesh—taking their leave of MoMA, along with the artist herself. We already heard about some of the closing day craziness, but photographer Jim Kiernan was on hand and provided us with some more inside info (and illegal photographs!). more ›

Marina Abramović's performance art retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art closes on Memorial Day, which means if you've been wanting to sit across from her, you'll have to go today, tomorrow or Monday. We wonder if superfan Paco Blancas will be there for a final good-bye. more ›

This Thursday the Greater New York exhibit opens at PS 1 in Long Island City (and will run through October 18th). This is their third time around with the exhibit, which this year will showcase 68 artists—covering all mediums—who live and work in the city. A few of the artists have also been commissioned to work in residence, shooting photographs and video, rehearsing and realizing performances, and "stretching the notions of sculpture, painting, photography, film, and video-making." It's like performance art art, or something. more ›

So this line at MoMA to sit in front of Marina Abramović is really long, you know, FYI. You pretty much have to clear your schedule and be prepared to wait around for at least a few hours... unless, of course, you are famous. Or so we hear. The other day James Franco was first to sit in front of the performance artist, and we're pretty sure he—or Lou Reed, or Sharon Stone—didn't stand in line like regular museum patrons. Like the Paco Blancases of the world. more ›

For those closely monitoring MoMA's Flickr account, which gets updated with portraits of each visitor that sits across from Marina Abramović, some familiar faces have popped up. But today we're not talking James Franco, we're talking Paco Blancas, a NYC-based make-up artist who has sat across from the legendary performance artist 14 times (and counting). One of the museum's interns tracked him down recently and grilled the (former) mystery man on his penchant for popping up in front of Marina. more ›

The latest famous face to sit in front of Marina Abramović at MoMA was none other than James Franco, who got up bright n' early this morning to be first in line to sit across from the performance artist. (Though we're guessing that celebrities get to cut the line—we hear Hans Gruber was first yesterday.) Wonder if Franco lasted longer than Lou Reed's 9 minutes... more ›

Yesterday we got a glimpse of Lady Gaga's museum attire (an understated outfit aside from the gold-spiked mask-glasses). But what shoes does Lil Miss Poker Face wear when she's traipsing around MoMA contemplating Marina Abramović? Seriously, we're asking: WTF are those things? Well, whatever they are, they certainly look perfectly comfortable to navigate the city streets in. more ›

According to the Twitter rumor mill, Lady Gaga entered MoMA a little bit after noon today and may be waiting her turn to sit down in front of legendary performance artist Marina Abramović. She's allegedly with her artist pal Terence Koh, but while some are reporting they have seen the duo circling around Abramović, others haven't spotted her in the area at all. Maybe she's just grabbing the junk of Marina's naked minions until her turn comes up? Stay tuned! (You can watch the live feed here... hopefully she won't get stage fright.) more ›

Marina Ambramovic's "The Artist Is Present" is still going on at MoMA, and while her silent staring contests have been the center of attention lately, the nude models positioned at the entryway are speaking out about their silent shifts. more ›

Want to see every painting on display from the painting galleries at MoMA... but just don't have the time? Well here they (allegedly!) all are in a two minute video taken on April 10th. Notice any missing? more ›

Famed photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) is the subject of an expansive retrospective that opened yesterday at MoMA. His work in the 1930s "helped define the creative potential of modern photography" and made him one of the most influential photographers in history. As a photojournalist, he captured life on the run, exclusively using Leica 35mm rangefinder cameras—as the NY Times noted in their review: "By plane, train, bus, car, bicycle, rickshaw, horse and on foot, he covered the better part of five continents" throughout his career. The show will run through June 28th, and here's little look into the world he saw through his lens. more ›

This past Saturday performance artist Marina Abramovic met her match at MoMA, where she has set up her ongoing piece titled: "The Artist is Present." Ready to receive her visitors for the day, she was approached by a woman donning a similar look to her own; BombBlog reports that this guest "sat, to the bafflement of the museum staff and visitors, all day." Turns out this was Anya Liftig, a Brooklyn-based performance artist, and this was all part of her own piece, titled “The Anxiety of Influence." more ›