Sarah Cowan

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Articles

Seven-year-old takes on 25-mile bike challenge for nature

2 weeks ago | doncasterfreepress.co.uk | Sarah Cowan

Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowBob, a determined 7-year-old from Doncaster is set to cycle 25 miles to Clumber Park in a bid to raise money for the National Trust’s vital work in protecting our natural spaces. Bob’s big challenge—on Saturday April 19 —will see him pedalling through the countryside, hoping to raise funds to support wildlife, preserve landscapes, and care for the beauty of places like Clumber Park.
Hearing: Janet Cardiff’s The Forty Part Motet

1 month ago | moma.org | Sarah Cowan

Our latest video takes you from an artist’s studio to a cathedral to illustrate how closing your eyes is sometimes the best way to experience art. Sarah Cowan Feb 24, 2025 How does the sense of hearing trigger our imagination? And what role does that play in art? In pursuit of some answers, we traveled to rural British Columbia to visit artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller.
How to See an Exquisite Corpse

Oct 16, 2024 | moma.org | Sarah Cowan

The famous Surrealist game has taken on a life of its own over 100 years. Sarah Cowan Oct 16, 2024 In celebration of the 100th anniversary of André Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism, this short documentary takes a deep dive into the Surrealist game cadavre exquis or “exquisite corpse,” a collaborative drawing made by multiple people, with each adding a different body part while unaware of what the others drew.
Smell: Montien Boonma’s House of Hope

Oct 7, 2024 | moma.org | Sarah Cowan

Go behind the scenes of a monumental installation that explores how the invisible can be the most evocative element of an artwork. Sarah Cowan Oct 7, 2024 When artist Montien Boonma was searching for a cure for his wife’s cancer, he turned to traditional Thai medicine and the healing power of smell. Boonma made this experience central to one of his most ambitious immersive installations, what he called “a house with pills” that evokes a sacred temple.
Smell: Mike Kelley’s Deodorized Central Mass with Satellites

Sep 10, 2024 | moma.org | Sarah Cowan

Watch the first installment in our new video series exploring how art is more than meets the eye. Sarah Cowan Sep 10, 2024 Still from Smell: Mike Kelley’s Deodorized Central Mass with Satellites ShareInclude playlistAn error occurred while retrieving sharing information. Please try again later.
Martin Wong’s Hidden New York

Apr 16, 2024 | moma.org | Sarah Cowan

Watch a short documentary about graffiti on the back of a painting from 1986—and the world it unlocks. Sarah Cowan Apr 16, 2024 This film tells the unknown story of a hidden painting, and the history of 1980s downtown New York it unfurls. The artist Martin Wong bridged the graffiti, poetry, and gallery scenes; his drawings and paintings depict the streets and characters around him on the Lower East Side of New York City, where he moved in 1978.
Käthe Kollwitz Sharpens Her Tools

Mar 27, 2024 | moma.org | Sarah Cowan

Watch the artist’s vision take shape in an animated video that traces the evolution of a single artwork. Sarah Cowan Mar 27, 2024 In Sharpening the Scythe, one of Käthe Kollwitz’s most powerful prints, an older peasant woman grips the blade of her farming tool, preparing it not for cutting crops, but to take part in a revolt. In this short animated video, watch how Kollwitz arrived at this potent image using her confidence as a draftsman and printmaker.
PIN–UP | AT THE SCREENING OF MOMA’S BUILT ECOLOGIES SERIES

Jan 31, 2024 | pinupmagazine.org | Sarah Cowan

by PIN–UP Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism, which closed on January 20, 2024, was the first exhibit organized by Carson Chan at the helm of MoMA’s Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and Natural Environment. To mark the occasion, the Ambasz Institute recently invited 120 guests for a screening of Built Ecologies: Architecture and the Environment, a six-part video series co-produced by the Museum of Modern Art’s Creative Team and PIN–UP.
To Touch Time: U.S. Black Feminist Modernist Sculpture in the 1970s and 1980s

Jan 24, 2024 | mdpi.com | Sarah Cowan |Sarah Louise |S. Louise

1. IntroductionBeverly Buchanan’s (1940–2015) site-specific environmental installation, Marsh Ruins (1981), once stood five feet tall (Figure 1). Now, its three boulder-like mounds sink into the wetland banks of the Marshes of Glynn in Brunswick, Georgia (Figure 2). The boulders exist in a state of irreversible decay. Deep cracks line their surfaces. The ruined mounds index the punishing passage of time since their construction. The pantyhose with which Senga Nengudi (b.
REF is about incentives not just outcomes

Jun 27, 2023 | wonkhe.com | Sarah Cowan