Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

Disorder

Documentary, Foreign language

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Weikai's doc was compiled from 1,000 hours of amateur footage; it's an often hectic portrait of the Chinese city of Guangzhou. It screens with Ou Ning and Cao Fei's "San Yuan Li" (2003).

24 City

Docudrama, Documentary, Foreign language

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• Critics' pick

Jia interviews nine people who have worked or lived around a state-owned factory, which is being demolished to make way for a luxury apartment complex.

"Wait, Later This Will Be Nothing: Editions by Dieter Roth"

Prints & editions

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• Critics' pick

As with the rest of his art, Roth pushed the envelope hard when it came to publishing editioned multiples, using everything from chocolate and rabbit turds to sausages and stale croissants as materials. In fact, some of the most radical artworks of his...

"Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light"

Photography

• Rating: 5/5
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• Critics' pick

One of the giants of 20th-century photography, Bill Brandt (1904–1983) is not as well-known as his close contemporaries Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans. This exemplary exhibition of his work, curated by MoMA’s Sarah Hermanson Meister, reappraises...

"Claes Oldenburg: The Street and the Store"

Museums & Attractions, Sculpture

The Pop sculptor's early career is the focus of this exhibit, which looks at two of Oldenburg's installations from the 1960s: The Store, a series of storefronts where he sold his artwork from 1961 to 1964, and The Street, which was first presented at...

"Abstract Generation: Now in Print"

Prints & editions

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• Critics' pick

Contemporary takes on abstraction in print provide the focus for this exhibition, featuring contributions by Cory Arcangel, Tauba Auerbach, Philippe Decrauzat, Liam Gillick, Wade Guyton, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, R. H. Quaytman and Haegue Yang.

"Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light"

Design

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Labrouste (1801–75) pioneered the use of glass and iron to create soaring, light-filled, cathedral-like interiors, like the ones found in his two great libraries, the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève and the Bibliothèque Nationale, both in Paris. This show,...

"Hand Signals: Digits, Fists, and Talons"

Prints & editions

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The hand becomes a feast for the eye in this collection of 20th-century posters and ephemera featuring the appendage as focal point.

"XL: 19 New Acquisitions in Photography"

Photography

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MoMA trots out its latest photographic holdings, which include photos by Robert Frank, Lynn Hershman Leeson and Stephen Shore, among many others.