Yesterday afternoon, the midtown walls outside the Museum of Modern Art and surrounding buildings were bathed in a beautiful, expansive new video installation from artist Doug Aitken. The work, Doug Aitken: sleepwalkers, was commissioned by both the MoMA and Creative Time, and it turns the museum into public art space. A total of eight screens (outside the MoMA on West 53rd Street, in an empty lot onto Museum of Folk Art's exterior wall, and on the MoMA's walls on West 54th) show the stories of five different New Yorkers. more ›

THEATER: The MoMA Dada exhibition ends Monday, and if you haven't gone yet here's even greater incentive to beat the deadline. Kate Valk, Scott Shepherd and Ari Fliakos of the Wooster Group are performing just three times at the museum in Who's Your DADA?!. This trio last mesmerized audiences in Emperor Jones and we're very curious to see what they do with original Dada materials. (The MoMA website tantalizingly mentions the appearance of "special guests". Buscemi? Dafoe? McDermott?) - John Del Signore more ›

Last night, the Tribute in Light could be seen. Tribute in Light will be displayed on Sunday, September 11, but Gothamist suspects they were testing the memorial from its new West and Morris Streets location (atop a parking garage). This September 11, the City is encouraging people to make it a day of service through volunteerinng - here's information from the Mayor's Volunteer Center. And here's the city's September 11 Services website. more ›

It turns out that the newly redesigned MoMA has some detractors, namely the neighbords whose apartments are like dioramas for museum goers to spy on. The NY Post spoke to some West 54th Street residents who are upset with museum's new glassy facade:

Rosanna Batista...was aghast to learn that up to 10,000 visitors a day were getting vistas of her boudoir with their $20 admission. From the moment MoMA reopened two months ago, she's been gawked at - and "flashed" - by a steady stream of camera-toting art lovers.

The MoMA on the new MoMA. The MoMA will has an exhibition of Taniguchi's museum designs through January 2005. Taniguchi's bio from the MoMA. greg.org on what the ticket hikes mean for the MoMA and NYC. The New Yorker's Paul Goldberger writes that the renovation is elegant while John Updike walks through the museum. New York magazine on the making of the new MoMA. more ›