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Khan Academy: Maria Hassabi: Plastic
Artist and choreographer Maria Hassabi's PLASTIC is a commissioned live installation in which dancers perform throughout MoMA continuously during opening hours. With no apparent beginning and end, PLASTIC reformats the duration of...
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Khan Academy: Marina Abramovic (Video)
Can performance art be re-performed? How can it be collected by the museum? To explore what artists have to say, take our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945-1989. Created by The Museum of Modern Art. [2:16]
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Khan Academy: Jannis Kounellis, "Da Inventare Sul Posto (To Invent on the Spot)"
Watch Jannis Kounellis combine painting music and dance. To learn more about what artists have to say, take our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945-1989. Created by The Museum of Modern Art. [1:49]
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Khan Academy: Marina Abramovic: Marina's First Performance
In this video [1:27] Marina Abramovic talks about her first performance, when she was a child. To learn more about what artists have to say, take our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945-1989.
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Khan Academy: Marina Abramovic: Teaching the Next Generation
In this video [2:16] Marina Abramovic talks about teaching a new generation of performance artists. To learn more about what artists have to say, take our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945-1989.
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Khan Academy: Marina Abramovic: Performance vs. Acting
In this video [3:57] MoMA PS1 Director Klaus Biesenbach talks with artist Marina Abramovic and actor James Franco. To learn more about what artists have to say, take our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945-1989.
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Khan Academy: Marina Abramovic: 'Cleaning the House' Workshop
In this video [2:21] Performance artists talk about their workshop with Marina Abramovic in preparation for re-performing her works at MoMA. To learn more about what artists have to say, take our online course, Modern and Contemporary...
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Khan Academy: Concept of Dust or How Do You Look When There's Nothing Left to Move?
Pioneering choreographer Yvonne Rainer discusses her ongoing work-in-progress--The Concept of Dust, or How do you look when there's nothing left to move?--on the eve of the work's East Coast premiere at MoMA. [1:43]
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Khan Academy: Framing "Christina's World" by Andrew Wyeth
Though we might not notice it, frames affect how we see a painting. To learn about how art changes over time, enroll in one of MoMA's courses online.. Created by The Museum of Modern Art. [3:11]
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Khan Academy: Conservation: Rene Magritte, "The Portrait," 1935
This video [2:59] In preparation for the Magritte exhibition, they began examining The Portrait, from 1935. What started as a fairly routine conservation treatment uncovered some very interesting details about Magritte's painting.
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Khan Academy: Conservation: Picasso's Guitars
In this video [3:15] photography helps MoMA conservators determine how to treat Picasso's 1913 Cubist sculpture, Still-Life with Guitar. To learn about how art changes over time, enroll in one of MoMA's courses online. Created by The...
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Khan Academy: Conservation: Paik, 'Untitled,' 1993
To learn more about the history of sound, video and performance art, enroll in our online courses, including Five Puzzles of Contemporary Art.
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Khan Academy: Places and Spaces: Modern Art & Ideas
Art may be found in museums, but it almost never begins there. Discover some of the different ways that artists represent place and use materials from their environment, as seen in works by Vincent van Gogh, Piet Mondrian and Gordon...
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Khan Academy: Introduction to Modern Art & Ideas
Looking at modern art through the lens of different themes can reveal surprising connections and new insights. In our new online course, 'Modern Art & Ideas,' we explore four themes we often use when teaching at The Museum of Modern...
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Khan Academy: D. W. Griffith, 'The Mothering Heart'
D. W. Griffith was the most popular director of the silent era. During the year 1913, he made dozens of films. The most important is "The Mothering Heart", starring Lillian Gish. She is a young bride and is rather Victorian. She is...
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Khan Academy: Giorgio De Chirico, "The Anxious Journey"
Giorgio deChirico's 1913 painting, "The Anxious Journey." was a breakthrough year for Giorgio deChirico. In October of 1913, a critic and champion of Avent Garde art, Guillaume Apollinaire wrote about his experience of deChirico's...
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Khan Academy: Fernand Leger, "Contrast of Forms"
1913 was a banner year for Leger. It was the year in which he figured out how to become a Leger instead of a follower of Picasso or Braque. He did a large series of paintings entitled "Contrast of Form". Each of these examined the ways...
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Khan Academy: Mack Sennett, 'Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life'
This video [1:48] discusses the silent film "Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life" was made in 1913, directed by Mack Sennett, and is your quintessential chase film. This film has every single comedy chase trope that you could ever want; So...
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Khan Academy: Duchamp, 3 Standard Stoppages
In this video [2:28] learn how Marcel Duchamp re-conceived a standard unit of measure. Duchamp decided, "Painting is dead. I'm going to turn to different things." 1913 was the year that Duchamp made his first ready made by putting an...
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Khan Academy: Louis Raemaekers, 'Tegen De Tariefwet, Vliegt Niet in 'T Web!'
This video [2:05] discusses a poster from 1913 designed and printed in Amsterdam by Louis Raemaekers. This is a dramatic use of very simple means, two colors lithographically printed, a new integrative approach to the combination of...
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Khan Academy: Matisse, "The Blue Window"
In this video [2:38] learn about Matisse's search for essential form in The Blue Window. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
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Khan Academy: Ab Ex Ny: Mo Ma and Abstract Expressionism
In this video [5:13] this exhibition assembles more than 200 works of Abstract Expressionism art made honest artists in the 40s 50s and 60s; the collection of is located in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Khan Academy: Jackson Pollock
This video [5:13] discusses abstract expressionist, Jackson Pollock, who departed from the idea of using a brush and making brush strokes to paint a scene -- and instead, with the wooden tip of the brush, either fling or drip or spread...
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Khan Academy: Frank Lloyd Wright, Midway Gardens
In this video [3:02] explore one of Frank Lloyd Wright's most important but least known commissions. In 1913, Frank Lloyd Wright, one of America's great architects, was commissioned to build Midway Gardens, represented in this model, a...