The Museum of Arts and Design (“MAD”) explores the blur zone between art, design, and craft today. Accredited by the American Association of Museums since 1991, MAD focuses on contemporary creativity and the ways in which artists and designers from around the world transform materials through processes ranging from the artisanal to the digital.
MAD’s educational and outreach programs are a platform for discussion and debate about the changing nature of contemporary art and its relationship to other disciplines and media. With an increasingly international and multicultural focus, MAD’s education department provides a wealth of interpretive paths for audiences: lecture series; symposia; master classes; performance and film series; family programs; and resources for teachers and students. By working with a number of programming partners, MAD is always at the forefront of the most current trends and issues in contemporary art and design.
THE FUN In recognition of New York nightlife's vital contribution to the city's creative community and its artistic pursuits, the Museum of Arts and Design presents the THE FUN fellowship. THE FUN fellowship annua[...]
April 5, 2012
In the past decade, theorists have attempted to tackle the question of what comes after modernism and post-modernism. Only recently a new terminology has emerged to situate and explain recent developments across cur[...]
November 8, 2011
Marshall McLuhan is credited with quipping, "The environments that shape any group are invisible to those within them. We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish."
January 7, 2011
With his infamous cult films Holy Mountain, El Topo and Fando y Lis (which caused a riot upon its premier) Chilean-born Alejandro Jodorowsky altered the visual language and philosophy of cinema. Breaking from conventiona[...]
September 8, 2010
