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19: 83: 1497: 776: 105:, who commented on the exhibition: "Björk is an extraordinarily innovative artist whose contributions to contemporary music, video, film, fashion, and art have had a major impact on her generation worldwide, this highly experimental exhibition offers visitors a direct experience of her hugely collaborative body of work". 220:
was meant to be about "processing", and that the show worked best if allowing oneself to process as well. Lobenfield additionally observed that when touring the exhibition from the audio tour for "Songlines" to the screening room for the "Black Lake" music video, "a romance from its wide-eyed
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stated that the exhibition " the ambition to do ambition justice" and that it stood as an overt sign "of the museum’s urge to be all things to all people, its disdain for its core audience, its frequent curatorial slackness and its indifference to the handling of crowds and the needs of its
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parody – but two parts anything", but additionally noted that the exhibition was still worth visiting to visualize how Björk "built a cooperative artistic practice that spanned media and registers, high and low, to unprecedented public effect."
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M. H. Miller opined that the exhibition was "hardly a retrospective—it’s starfucking, something increasingly familiar at MoMA, and a failure even at that." In a more positive review, Claire Lobenfield of
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also negatively reviewed the show, stating that he found it to be a "discombobulated mess" and that it was "not yet up to museum or gallery standards." Ryu Spaeth of
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received generally negative reviews from critics, many of whom labelled the exhibition as either unambitious, incomplete, or similar to other MoMA exhibitions.
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additionally stated that there wasn't "enough in cramped, snaking rooms to hold your interest" for the 40-minute audio tour, while
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was a "retrospective" showing comprising audio, video, fashion, instruments, and other objects pertaining to her career.
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The exhibit incorporated a new commission from MoMA, which saw Björk reunited with award-winning video director
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further noted that the exhibition seemed to be only the beginning of discussion over the singer's impact.
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exercise, one part science lab, one part synesthesia experiment, one part
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apps were to be featured as part of the permanent collection of the
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beginning to its molten end fully comes together." Colleen Nika of
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contributed to an audio narrative for visitors to the exhibit.
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Björk Guðmundsdóttir & tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar
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The Inner or Deep Part of an Animal or Plant Structure
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becomes first app in New York's Museum of Modern Art"
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Alexander McQueen
Who Is It
Museum of Modern Art
Icelandic singer of the same name
Biophilia
Museum of Modern Art

All Is Full of Love
MoMA PS1
Klaus Biesenbach
Andrew Thomas Huang
Mutual Core
Black Lake
juvenilia
Björk
Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir
Sjón
Roberta Smith
The New York Times
The Guardian
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Madame Tussaud’s
Jerry Saltz
Vulture
The Week
ARTnews
Fact
Dazed
2015 in art

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