Installation of Richard Serra's sculptures at MoMA

[glenwoodmanagement]

Richard Serra can't do anything that isn't "heavy" in the best sense. This time-lapse installation video is superb!

I wrote about the 40-year survey of the great sculptor's art works on paper now running at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Simple in its complexity, complex in its simplicity, another great retrospective ~Austin

[MrHappyebby]

kinda like a human habitrail.(hampster cage)

[artsdirectgallery]

One of the best.

[sanjuacharya]

This should be on Vimeo. . .

[ralph4ueltzhoeffer]

So thats absolutely great, thanx

[maxmash]

i like modern art because of its cold feeling.

[SamDayWeddingPainter]

The fun thing about this time lapse is the changing light.

I like Richard Serra, but I also love what Robert Hughes wrote about public displeasure with his work back in the 80s: "Tilted Arc should stay, if only as a monument to the follies that arise at the juncture of undemanding patronage and truculent aestheticism." I think that juncture will be known to history as the 20th century.

Classical painting will reemerge as a valued medium in the century to come.

[chaucer44]

man, this was a great time lapse. I watched it five times

[bladuzo]

thank you for posting this video. thats what youtube should be...

[astartarte]

Soy estudiante de Historia del Arte en Mérida Venezuela, gracias a estos videos tengo la posibilidad de ver que sucede en otros países en cuanto a la actualidad artística, es súper barato y actual este medio. Aquí en nuestra ciudad, con la escuela de arte y otros equipos artísticos desde hace más de veinte años se juega con los conceptos, formas, fenómenos y comportamientos del arte, esperemos que pronto estén a disposición aquí, por lo pronto saludos y gracias.

[NatyS86]

Thank you for this video!

[RabidIceWeasel]

Nice video...but I hate modern art. xD

[pattysuss123]

yeah modern art has no feeling.. or if it does its a very cold one.

[funmbimoti]

Art only serves as a mirror, depicting its society. Mordern society is a cold insensitive one.

Art has only changed the way society has also changed.

[lloplop]

well said.

[lloplop]

is art supposed to have a specific feeling? you cant make such a generalization.

[pittoreuy]

excellent video

[fireplug111]

but hey! not so much boring as it was without meaning.

[tatakamotonga]

does anyone know what music that is?

[Jacaranda1123]

the music was by I Am Robot And Proud

[Dmd0916]

interesting..........

[munky0527]

simple but not boring. awsome work

[EGI313]

Very very nice. That's very interesting to see the progression with time.

[popealice]

Love to MoMA. Love from PoPA. Pope Alice.

[BillyMadison27]

You tube doesnt post these videos..helloooo Moma does. But its great that this museum doesnt mind giving art lovers a look into their art work unlike other museums that dont even allow you to take photography of their permanent collection. Moma is a great place to visit and worth every penny. I think im going tomorrow to sit in the garden and enjoy a gelato and sandwich.

[skulpcha]

Good Show. I miss the MoMA and New York. Wait what am I saying?...don't miss NY

[tkelleman]

wow moma on youtube - and boom - knocking out a great video too - miss the MoMA - you guys bring it - totally pro CONGRATS terrence kelleman

[ArtistMrsKim]

I looked at your Please look at mine.

[cecitap]

claro que es arte¡ te hace sentir vulnerable caminar entre sus esculturas, es impresionante.

[MoMAvideos]

Loosely translated: "Of course this is art! It makes you feel vulnerable to walk between these sculptures, it's impressive."

[BobbyBrady2000]

I just found your youtube account! GREAT!!! Thank you soooo much! please keep posting for all of us art lovers!!

[Capburger]

Those unable to appreciate Serra's sculpture would perhaps be better served viewing the Bob Ross clips available on You Tube...

[imretarded06]

It is easy to call any art crap and trash because most art is anything but essential. However, like many sculptures, the true beauty lies in the experience you have when you are with it, not in a time elapsed video put out by MoMA's podcast.

To any of you that don't particularly care for these sculptures, go to New York, go to any number of other cities that Serra has these massive sculptures and stand in front of them and don't think and don't speak, just stand there.

Then come back and talk

[rovescidibirra]

Ah ah ah! Unbelievable! Is this art? Ah ah ah!

Come to Italy to watch what means ART!

Ah ah ah!

[SigmaSixxx]

Interesting, fella, that there hasn't been any real important Italian art since the baroque. You guys better get on top of that. You get lost in the past too long, you're going to start looking like Greece: beautiful, quaint, even profound, but frankly, a thing of the past.

[jeffreycollins]

OMG Richard Is At MOMA. YES!!! I will definitely be making the trip to NYC for this show. I can't wait. I've always loved Richards work and hope they also have a lot of his paintings in there too.

[ck16pm]

I am so expecting to see this exhibition.

[dahish222]

وش القصد من هذا الفديو

[MoMAvideos]

Google translates this as "The surface of the intent of this videotape"

[Machan188]

I'm not trying to be sarcastic , or rude, i'm just trying to be as honest about this question as much as i possibly can. what the heck is it ? i work at a shipyard, all i see in this video is a big piece of metal that was shaped to be a half U. and then another to almost connect to it. it doenst' symbolize anything that i can tell. its just an incomplete circle, made out of ALOT of metal. can someone please explain what this is , or why or how it is represented as art.

[wolfwolfwolf1979]

I'm not a big fan of this one either. Some of his better works are "house of cards", "corner prop", "prop" and "ciruit 2" (google these). Most of his works are extremely heavy and hold themselves up. These sculptures are pretty interesting and actually innovative. I think his sculptures are great but I agree that there is a bit too much hype.

[MoMAvideos]

You can also see these on the website for the exhibition (moma[.]org/serra), and listen to audio stops regarding these (moma[.]org/audio).

[wolfwolfwolf1979]

The other bigger ones in this exhibit were good also, the ones that completely surround you and go on for a very long time. These ones were too short!

[skierpage]

Machan188, you're halfway there. Some of the power is steel, industrial might and decay. Try taking some photos of your shipyard and be an artist!

[skierpage]

Serra's plates have conical or toroidal curves and form an undefined space that's massive but intimate unlike a building or shipyard. You HAVE to walk through to feel them. I hope you get a chance to do so, I think you'll be moved. (You can Google image search for "Union of the Torus and the Sphere", his last piece that you can "get" from a picture. I've booked my pilgrimage to see this show!

[QueefBeef]

beautiful

[willbarry0000]

I like this tune. Who is it?

[MoMAvideos]

The music is courtesy of a musician from Toronto called "I am Robot and Proud". For more information, please visit robotandproud dot com.

[cohrcohr]

cinemathequefilms: What you said is true, but when you begin to see the same abstractions on a daily basis, it's inane to continue calling it art.

[pepeorozco1]

horrrible,,

[fUckSqUrLxox]

Agreed... i dont kno how u call this art...

[pootsproductions]

this kind of art is pointless

[doxielady1312]

beautiful!! cool video!

[thesisrevoked]

MoMA = Love.

[cinemathequefilms]

The comments remind. It saddens me that so much reaction to modern art is so inarticulate as to what exactly people are offended by. ART is hardly limited to representations of pretty flowers. By organizing the surrealistic meeting of disparate elements, we have abstractions Americans have trouble dealing with. My own frustrations with art institutions speak to institutionalization. NOT art. I am glad to read the comments as they remind me why I can't live in the States.

[guismoale]

wow...

this inspired me to go see grass groing in the park.

what an amazing world modern art is... makes me regret to have known true artists.

but... without this there would be a lot of uselesse people unemployed.

[cinemathequefilms]

Serra: Yank. Cinematheque: Un petit francais. MoMA: Impermeable. CF: Breaks often. Inarticulate. RS: Steel. CF: Glass. RS: Real. CF: Digital illusion. RS: Individual. CF: Collective. RS: No windows. CF: Windows. InstalledUninstalled. RS: Labyrinthine womb. CF: Flash. RS: Wealthy, establishment. CF: Rags. RS: Nonsexual. CF: Sexual. MoMA: Endowed. RS: Weight/gravitas. CF: Musical/poetic. Refuses to shut up. MoMA: Intimidating. CF: Experimental, rude. RS: Indecipherable. CF: Ruins.

[stensoul]

Reminds me of a piece he did named Joe.

[caracarn2006]

Gosh, and i bet that sounded better in your head.

[dantiger]

Comming at MOMA is frowned upon. You may damage some priceless art.

[scruch]

the 21>30 aug 2007 i'm in the beutiful new york, and i am absolutly sure that i will come at the MoMA to see this sculptures ..