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“CBS News RAW”: A controversial Catalonian artist has revealed created a giant, dirty sock to be used as a centerpiece in the main hall of the Barcelona Contemporary Art Museum.

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“CBS News RAW”: A controversial Catalonian artist has revealed created a giant, dirty sock to be used as a centerpiece in the main hall of the Barcelona Contemporary Art Museum.

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James Kalm responds to a gracious invitation from MoMA to attend the press preview of this timely exhibition. Like the coming of summer, or the swallows returning to Capistrano, the cycles in the art world have returned to focus on the practice of painting. Organized by Anne Umland, this show spotlights 50 works of art that are painting, or relate to, the question, “What is Painting?” and displays works from the museum’s permanent collection. Ann Temkin, curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture leads viewers through a brief walk-through and delivers an insightful explanation of the works. Artists represented include Francis Bacon, Robert Colescott, Gene Davis,Carroll Dunham, Wade Guyton, Al Held, Shirazeh Houshiary, Martin Kippenberger, Sherrie Levine, Andy Warhol, Agnes Martin, Elizabeth Murray et al.

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Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA. Presentation by architect Renzo Piano and walk through the galleries showing the Eli and Edythe Broad collection.

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Learn more about the exhibition “Pablo Bronstein at The Met,” on view at the Met October 6, 2009-February 21, 2010: http://tinyurl.com/yeewujz

For Spectrum’s inaugural event, Research Associate Ian Alteveer joined Pablo Bronstein to discuss the work in the exhibition “Pablo Bronstein at the Met,” on view at the Museum from October 6, 2009, through February 21, 2010.

Pablo Bronstein (British, b. 1977) is the sixth artist to participate in an ongoing series of exhibitions at the Met that highlights the work of contemporary artists. “Pablo Bronstein at the Met” presents new, site-specific work that addresses the history and future of The Metropolitan Museum of Art itself. This is the London-based artists first solo exhibition in New York.

Spectrum is a new group organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art that provides fresh perspectives on the Met’s collections and special exhibitions. Spectrum events offer the chance to interact with contemporary artists, to discuss art, music, video, and new media, and to socialize with other Museum fans.

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MINUS SPACE exhibition curated by Phong Bui, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center / MoMA, Long Island City, New York, October 19, 2008 – January 19, 2009

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The artist Swoon presenting her work as part of the Conversations with Contemporary Artists series at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Part 2 of 2 (edited for time)

Audio archives of the unedited presentation and discussion with Gretchen Wagner are available on moma.org/audio or through the MoMA Think Modern podcast in iTunes.

Images courtesy of Swoon. © 2007 The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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The opening of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. The principal architect, Kazuyo Sejima of SANAA is interviewed as well as Lisa Phillips, director of the museum, Lisa Roulmell, Museum Deputy Director & COO and Lisa Hoptmann, Senior Curator. The video highlights the activist history of the museum and the design of the new building and the opening exhibit, Unmonumental.

Produced by Howard Silver for Bloomberg MUSE. Edited by Seth Karten, DP Scott Sinkler

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It’s one of the finest collections of modern art anywhere in the world, but you won’t find it in New York or Paris.

Dozens of works by the likes of Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock — together valued at roughly $3 billion — are locked in a basement in Tehran.

Only a handful of westerners have had an up-close look at the underground archives in Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art. ABC News was granted exclusive access inside the vault that holds a priceless collection Iranian authorities choose to keep locked away.

What was revealed was astonishing: a series of paintings by Picasso; a wall’s worth of pop art by Roy Lichtenstein; Warhol portraits of Jackie Onassis, Mick Jagger and Marilyn Monroe; a Diego Rivera self portrait; and a painting many consider to be the best Jackson Pollock outside of North America.

The collection was supposed to be a gift to the Iranian people. It was assembled by the Shah of Iran and his wife using public funds during the oil boom of the 1970s. Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art was inaugurated in 1977, designed to be one of the world’s landmark modern art institutions, with an international collection worthy of that ambition.

But just months later came the Islamic Revolution. The Shah was deposed, Ayatollah Khomeinei was became the country’s leader, and in the Revolutionary, anti-American climate the museum’s western art was banished to the basement.

Why aren’t the pieces shown to the public? The reasons are a mix of ideology and practicality.

The collection is huge and the museum small. Museum director Dr. Habibollah Sadeghi, himself a painter appointed by conservative President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, says there is no space to properly put the works on display.

Others question whether the museum could properly protect the valuable pieces from theft or damage were they displayed openly.

Conservative Muslim ideology — a powerful governing force in Iran — has played a similarly forceful role in keeping the pieces underground. Aside from the anti-Western overtones of Revolutionary Iran many of the pieces are considered too racy for a conservative Muslim society. When some of the collection briefly went on display in 2005 Andre Derain’s “Golden Age,” a 1905 painting of female nudes, was notably absent. Also hidden was the centerpiece of a Frances Bacon painting triptych. The center panel could be taken as homoerotic, showing two naked men asleep in bed.

There are plans to display the collection permanently once museum space is expanded, Sadeghi said. If those plans materialize — full-time public access to view the pieces — it would fulfill the dreams of art lovers worldwide. “In two or three years we can improve the museum and have a permanent exhibition,” said Sadeghi, adding that the museum is hoping to buy more Western works in the coming years to fill out the collection.

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