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Joe Shlabotnik

(5,604 posts)
Fri Oct 11, 2013, 10:28 PM Oct 2013

New York's Moma acquires Occupy Wall Street art prints

Two years after the Occupy Wall Street protest began in New York’s Zuccotti park, the posters that plastered the city in support of the movement have found a home in one of the America’s major art museums.

New York’s Museum of Modern Art acquired the Occuprint Portfolio, a collection of 31 screenprints curated by the Booklyn Artists Alliance and published in 2012.

Christophe Cherix, Moma’s chief curator of drawings and prints, said the museum had not explicitly been looking for Occupy-related artwork, but it came across the portfolio while looking for works that capture what is happening in New York and are representative of what the city’s artists are working on.

“We felt the portfolio was saying something very important in relation to New York, what’s happening now, and at the same time we felt the portfolio had a very interesting relationship to other works in the collection from different periods but that are all trying to socially engage with the public,” said Cherix.


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”I’d way rather have it acquired by Moma than by Morgan Stanley and put in their lobby.” - Artist Molly Crabapple


From: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/10/moma-acquires-occupy-wall-street-art-prints
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New York's Moma acquires Occupy Wall Street art prints (Original Post) Joe Shlabotnik Oct 2013 OP
Hmm. pitbullgirl1965 Oct 2013 #1
good lord! Joe Shlabotnik Oct 2013 #2
Oh come now! Here is a tidbit for you: pitbullgirl1965 Oct 2013 #4
I'm just glad they'll have a safe home starroute Oct 2013 #3
Alright! gopiscrap Oct 2013 #5

pitbullgirl1965

(564 posts)
1. Hmm.
Fri Oct 11, 2013, 11:08 PM
Oct 2013

Crabapple does have a point, and it is historically important, I just wish it could have there had been more options outside of the establishment.


OT: did you see this little article? NSFW.

[link:http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/oct/09/leigh-ledare-photographs-mother-having-sex?commentpage=1|

pitbullgirl1965

(564 posts)
4. Oh come now! Here is a tidbit for you:
Sat Oct 12, 2013, 12:19 AM
Oct 2013

In a teenage diary entry, he names his mum alongside models and film stars in a list of "girls I wanted to do".

starroute

(12,977 posts)
3. I'm just glad they'll have a safe home
Sat Oct 12, 2013, 12:08 AM
Oct 2013

Yeah, MOMA is too elite for words -- but they do know how to value slightly unconventional artworks. And I always loved that General Strike one shown in the OP, which got reproduced a lot at the time.

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