"Looking at Music: Side 2" Exhibition
The Museum of Modern Art
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In the mid-1970s, right on the heels of Conceptual art and Minimalism, many visual artists turned to making raw, hard-edged work that addressed urban blight and bad economies. With an ear set to punk, these artists worked in the netherworld between music and media, often forming their own short-lived bands. Their rough, do-it-yourself projects pushed the envelope of interdisciplinary experimentation, which soon spread to underground venues from New York to London, Düsseldorf, and Krakow. This exhibition features music videos, super-8 films, drawings, photographs, and zines from MoMA's collection that explore the melding of music, media, and visual art in the final decades leading up to the twenty-first century.
[Image: Stephanie Chernikowski "Sonic Youth" (1983) Black-and-white photograph 11 x 17 in.]
Media
Schedule
from June 10, 2009 to November 30, 2009
Artist(s)
Stephanie Chernikowski, Sonic Youth, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Richard Hell, The Ramones, Blondie, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson et al.