Looking at Music 3.0, the third in a series of exhibitions at The Museum
of Modern Art exploring the influence of music on contemporary art
practices, focuses on New York in the 1980s and 1990s and the birth of
“remix culture.” The exhibition is on view in The Yoshiko and Akio
Morita Media Gallery from February 16 through June 6, 2011.
Highlighting a unique range of activity within the city during those
decades, the exhibition addresses the birth of hip hop; new
articulations of feminism as seen in video chain letters, zines, and
raucous art and music performances; the continued artistic development
of music videos; and the rise of the digital domain, where sound and
image acquired a curious parity as sampled bits of electronic
information, raising the curtain on new creative possibilities.
Approximately 70 works from a wide range of artists and musicians are on
view, including works by the Beastie Boys, Kathleen Hanna and Le Tigre,
Keith Haring, Miranda July, Christian Marclay, Steven Parrino, and
Run-DMC. A film exhibition closely linked to the artists and works on
view in the gallery exhibition runs from March 2 to March 10, 2011, in
MoMA’s Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters. The exhibition is organized by
Barbara London, Associate Curator, Department of Media and Performance
Art, The Museum of Modern Art.
The Museum of Modern Art
Looking at Music 3.0
February 16–June 6, 2011
The Yoshiko and Akio Morita Media Gallery, second floor
