Topic: The Museum of Modern Art

Tasty Design Treats for the Fall

What's new at the MoMA design store.READ»

Tuck and Cover

This contraption will keep your desk clutter- and cord-freeREAD»

MoMA Hosts Creative Lock-In to Save New York's Waterfronts

The museum is sponsoring a workshop aiming for new solutions for sheltering the city's threatened waterfront.READ»

Can’t Get to New York? Try the New MOMA.org. It's Almost Like Being There

It's pricey--$20 a ticket for adults. Often crowded. And two hours of parking in the 'hood will set you back $18. But for art lovers, a visit to New York's Museum of Modern Art is a jaw-dropping experience--like walking into the ...READ»

Mad Max Comes to New York

Every year, P.S.1, MOMA's contemporary art outpost in Queens, holds a prestigious contest to design a pavillion for its summertime dance parties. The 2009 winner was just announced, and it reflects the current recessionary climate ...READ»

Weirdness Goes Uptown: Tim Burton Artwork to Debut at MOMA

A European journalist at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) this morning asked filmmaker Tim Burton, "What was it like growing up in Burbank, California?" "Have you ever seen Dante's 'Inferno?'" he shot back.Actually, he said, ...READ»

Ron Arad at MoMA: Who Needs Discipline?

Designer Ron Arad’s exhibition at MoMA is a lot about "no." No limits. No right angles. No expense spared.READ»

• Ken Carbone's Yes to Less blog

Designing the Future

News typically doesn’t get blended in with art. Nor does the information in a lot of paintings, sculptures or other forms of art usually incorporate statistical or cerebral information. But an innovative new exhibit on display at ...READ»

Paola the Populist

The design universe revolves around a woman who loves Q-tips, Post-its, and The Twilight Zone.READ»

Masters of Design: A Jury of Their Peers

Introducing 11 jurors -- top leaders from universities, cultural institutions, and business -- who helped us select our 20 Masters of Design.READ»

Design Challenge of the Day: What Should Quarantine Look Like?

In the wake of swine flu and body scans, designers reimagine isolation.READ»

MOMA's "No Discipline" Show

Israeli-born designer Ron Arad "is the most curious person I know," says Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art. "We titled the show 'No Discipline' because so many designers choose ...READ»

Creating a Post-Crisis Economy: Moving Beyond Consumption

For the next few days I plan to explore what I am calling the Age of Involvement: the role of participation in an information society and how it leads to an expanded view of our economy. I am not an economist and have never studied ...READ»

The Future of the Textbook

If you have an even passing interest in art, you should check out smARThistory, a recently redesigned website that's quickly racking up awards. An ongoing experiment founded by Beth Harris, MoMA's director of digital learning, and ...READ»

The Future of Publishing is... Electric?

Meet the world's first electric magazine, issue number 57 of the avant-garde Visionaire.READ»

Paola Antonelli on Designing Ideas, Not Products

When we named Paola Antonelli as a 2007 Master of Design, she hinted at her upcoming exhibition Design and the Elastic Mind, which included both actual and virtual objects by designers that "explore design's response to ...READ»

• Paola the Populist

Art Basel Miami: Gagosian to Fairgoers: Don't Ask, Don't Tell

The Gagosian Gallery, the big Kahuna of the Art Basel Miami, has a new policy on labels identifying the work on view in its booth. There are none. "We don't like to label our artists," said one gallery staffer when asked about the ...READ»

Creating a Post-Crisis Economy: How to Design a Participatory System

Those who have stuck with me all week, know that I believe that participation is key to the next big wave of innovation in business and society. Whether it is in the fundamentals of how we think about wealth or the economy, how we ...READ»

• Creating a Post-Crisis Economy: Participation and Health Care
• Creating a Post-Crisis Economy: Why We Need Economic Dashboards
• Creating a Post-Crisis Economy: Learning to Measure Participation

The Green Housing Boom

Forward-thinking architects and real-estate developers are already envisioning the post-bust cycle of home building. And smaller is better.READ»

• Building Green Homes
• How Big is Too Big?
• The King of Green Investing

The Oscars of Design

If you want a look at the many ways in which extraordinary design has now permeated our lives, be sure to put the Cooper Hewitt’s new exhibit, “Design Life Now,” on your list of ‘must-sees’ if you’re in New York. The ...READ»

My Favorite Bookmarks - Ellen Pack

Picks from the founder of Women.com and author of the Women's Wire Web Directory.READ»

Can women executives have it all without DOING it all?

Among one of my professional idols is a woman I met several years ago while I worked in management consulting. She was a hot property--the kind of executive-level consultant that you bragged about having on your team. Word was, she'd ...READ»

Big League Chew: Phils Out-Spit Yanks

Are the Yankees and Phillies actually playing baseball on Ken Carbone's widescreen TV? To him they're just hocking high-def loogies.READ»

• Ken Carbone's Yes to Less blog

Dutch Treat: A New Pavilion for New York's Battered Battery

The Island at the Center of the World may have lost some of its luster recently,  as the city’s profligate bankers squandered the nation’s wealth in pursuit of watches, jets, and beachfront property. But the ‘hood will soon ...READ»

Dear SyFy, Imagine Greater - Please!

The Sci Fi channel announced that it was changing its name to SyFy a few months ago, and the switch happens tomorrow. Unfortunately Bruce Willis is not going to rescue us from this colossal attack of bad branding and phonetic foolishness.READ»

• Ken Carbone's Yes to Less blog