Useless Science
Summary information
Date
Thu Mar 30 2000 until Wed Sep 20 2000
Location
- MoMA type:exhibition building spaces
- 11 West 53rd St. type:thoroughfare names
Concurrent exhibitions
Exhibitions that overlap with this exhibition, in this dataset. Double-click an item in the timeline to view the corresponding exhibition page.
Useless Science
Projects 70: Xu Bing, Shirin Neshat, Simon Patterson (Banners Project, Series 1)
Paris Salon
The Dream of Utopia/Utopia of the Dream
Modern Living I
Modern Art Despite Modernism
Art is Arp
War
Man Ray, Photographer
Graphic-Photographic
Walker Evans and Company
Kahn's Modern Monuments
Giorgio Morandi Etchings
The Raw and the Cooked
The Marriage of Reason and Squalor
Paris Salon
Shigeru Ban: A Paper Arc
The Observer: Cartier-Bresson After the War
Modern Living II
New York Salon
Home Movies
How Simple Can You Get?
Ideal Motif: Stieglitz, Weston, Adams, and Callahan
Anatomically Incorrect
The Rhetoric of Persuasion
Seeing Double
Projects 70: Banners (Cycle II)
Projects 71: John Bock
Collection Highlights
Projects 72: John Armleder/Piotr Uklanski
Hotel New York
Public Sauna at P.S. 1
Greater New York
Rob Pruitt: "Evian Waterfall"
Luca Vitone: Hole
Special Projects (Spring 2000)
Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties
Special Projects (Summer 2000)
Volume: Bed of Sound
Max Neuhaus: Drawings
Elisabetta Benassi and Martin Dammann
Young Architects Program 2000 (MoMA PS1): Dunescape by SHoP
Min Tanaka: Dreaming Trees - Flying in Nexus
Dive-In Movies: Flix from the Great B-yond
Special Projects (Fall 2000)
Takashi Murakami: Second Mission Project ko2
John Wesley: Paintings 1961–2000
Person Remunerated for a Period of 360 Consecutive Hours
Clockwork 2000: P.S. 1 National and International Studio Program 1999–2000
Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation
| # | Start | End | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hotel New York | ||
| 2 | Public Sauna at P.S. 1 | ||
| 3 | Greater New York | ||
| 4 | Rob Pruitt: "Evian Waterfall" | ||
| 5 | Luca Vitone: Hole | ||
| 6 | Special Projects (Spring 2000) | ||
| 7 | Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties | ||
| 8 | Special Projects (Summer 2000) | ||
| 9 | Volume: Bed of Sound | ||
| 10 | Max Neuhaus: Drawings | ||
| 11 | Elisabetta Benassi and Martin Dammann | ||
| 12 | Young Architects Program 2000 (MoMA PS1): Dunescape by SHoP | ||
| 13 | Min Tanaka: Dreaming Trees - Flying in Nexus | ||
| 14 | Dive-In Movies: Flix from the Great B-yond | ||
| 15 | Special Projects (Fall 2000) | ||
| 16 | Takashi Murakami: Second Mission Project ko2 | ||
| 17 | John Wesley: Paintings 1961–2000 | ||
| 18 | Person Remunerated for a Period of 360 Consecutive Hours |
| # | Start | End | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clockwork 2000: P.S. 1 National and International Studio Program 1999–2000 |
Artists
There were 5 persons who influenced this exhibition.
Persons are ordered alphabetically by surname. Select a letter in the concertina to continue. Click on the person's name to view further information.
Pol Bury
Biographical statement Belgian, born 1922
Born 1922 (click to view other people born in this year)Died 2005
Nationality Belgian
Gender Male
External information resources for Pol Bury
Exhibitions
In this dataset, Pol Bury was involved in 12 exhibitions across 4 decades.
- Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1960s with 4 exhibitions.
- Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 2000s with 2 exhibitions.
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture | |||
| 2 | The 1960s: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection | |||
| 3 | Manhattan Observed | |||
| 4 | Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Popular Mechanics in Printmaking | |||
| 2 | Prints by Sculptors | |||
| 3 | Prints: Acquisitions, 1973–1976 |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Printed Art: A View of Two Decades | |||
| 2 | Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now | |||
| 3 | Abstractions |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Useless Science | |||
| 2 | Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities |
Matthew Barney
Biographical statement American, born 1967
Born 1967 (click to view other people born in this year)Died
Nationality American
Gender Male
External information resources for Matthew Barney
Exhibitions
In this dataset, Matthew Barney was involved in 20 exhibitions across 3 decades.
- Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 2000s with 12 exhibitions.
- Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 2010s with 3 exhibitions.
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drawing in Black and White: A Selection of Contemporary Works from the Collection | |||
| 2 | Drawings on Chance: Selections from the Permanent Collection | |||
| 3 | On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Collection | |||
| 4 | More Pieces for the Puzzle: Recent Additions to the Collection | |||
| 5 | The Promise of Photograhy: Selections from the DG Bank Collection |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Useless Science | |||
| 2 | Collaborations with Parkett: 1984 to Now | |||
| 3 | Uniform: Order and Disorder | |||
| 4 | Tempo | |||
| 5 | Contemporary: Inaugural Installation | |||
| 6 | Since 2000: Printmaking Now | |||
| 7 | Artist's Choice: Herzog and De Meuron, Perception Restrained | |||
| 8 | Into Me/Out of Me | |||
| 9 | Defamation of Character | |||
| 10 | Live/Work: Performance into Drawing | |||
| 11 | Here is Every, Four Decades of Contemporary Art | |||
| 12 | Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Modern Myth: Drawing Mythologies in Modern Times | |||
| 2 | Staging Action: Performance in Photography Since 1960 | |||
| 3 | Contemporary Galleries: 1980–Now |
Marcel Duchamp
Biographical statement American, born France. 1887–1968
Born 1887 (click to view other people born in this year)Died 1968
Nationality American
Gender Male
External information resources for Marcel Duchamp
Exhibitions
In this dataset, Marcel Duchamp was involved in 104 exhibitions across 9 decades.
- Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1990s with 24 exhibitions.
- Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1930s with 4 exhibitions.
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Modern Works of Art: 5th Anniversary Exhibition | |||
| 2 | Cubism and Abstract Art | |||
| 3 | Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism | |||
| 4 | Painting, Sculpture, Prints |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paintings and Sculpture from the Museum Collection | |||
| 2 | New Acquisitions: Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism | |||
| 3 | Twentieth Century Portraits | |||
| 4 | Action Photography | |||
| 5 | Modern Drawings | |||
| 6 | Painting, Sculpture, Prints | |||
| 7 | Recent Acquisitions in Painting and Sculpture | |||
| 8 | The Museum Collection of Painting | |||
| 9 | Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection | |||
| 10 | Collage |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Modern Relief | |||
| 2 | Posters by Painters and Sculptors | |||
| 3 | Works from the Museum Collection | |||
| 4 | Summer Exhibition: New Acquisitions; Recent American Prints, 1947–1953; Katherine S. Dreier Bequest; Kuniyoshi and Spencer; Expressionism in Germany; Varieties of Realism | |||
| 5 | XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection | |||
| 6 | Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection: New Acquisitions |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portraits from the Museum Collection | |||
| 2 | The Art of Assemblage | |||
| 3 | Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection | |||
| 4 | Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture | |||
| 5 | Art in the Mirror | |||
| 6 | The Artist as His Subject | |||
| 7 | The Artist as His Subject | |||
| 8 | The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection | |||
| 9 | Word and Image: Posters and Typography from the Graphic Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, 1879–1967 | |||
| 10 | Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage | |||
| 11 | Tribute to Marcel Duchamp | |||
| 12 | Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Recent Acquisitions: 20th-Century Pioneers | |||
| 2 | Ways of Looking | |||
| 3 | Philadelphia in New York: 90 Modern Works from the Philadelphia Museum of Art | |||
| 4 | Works on Paper | |||
| 5 | The Painting and Sculpture Collection: A New Perspective | |||
| 6 | Marcel Duchamp | |||
| 7 | Printed, Cut, Folded, and Torn | |||
| 8 | Seurat to Matisse: Drawing in France | |||
| 9 | In the Twenties | |||
| 10 | Artists and Writers | |||
| 11 | Art of the Twenties |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Printed Art: A View of Two Decades | |||
| 2 | Words and Pictures | |||
| 3 | Masterpieces from the Collection | |||
| 4 | Selections from the Permanent Collection: Painting and Sculpture | |||
| 5 | Naked/Nude: Contemporary Prints | |||
| 6 | European Drawing Between the Wars | |||
| 7 | Collage: Selections from the Permanent Collection |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2010 | |||
| 2 | The Modern Myth: Drawing Mythologies in Modern Times | |||
| 3 | The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today | |||
| 4 | On Line: Drawing through the Twentieth Century | |||
| 5 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2011 | |||
| 6 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2012 | |||
| 7 | Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language | |||
| 8 | Inventing Abstraction: 1910–1925 | |||
| 9 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2013 | |||
| 10 | There Will Never Be Silence: Scoring John Cage's "4'33"" |
M. C. Escher
Biographical statement Dutch, 1898–1972
Born 1898 (click to view other people born in this year)Died 1972
Nationality Dutch
Gender Male
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Exhibitions
In this dataset, M. C. Escher was involved in 7 exhibitions across 4 decades.
- Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1970s with 3 exhibitions.
- Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1950s,2000s with 1 exhibitions.
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Modern Masterprints of Europe |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prints for Collectors | |||
| 2 | Unique Photographs and Multiple Sculpture | |||
| 3 | Unique/Multiples: Sculpture/Photos |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Penthouse Aviary | |||
| 2 | Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Useless Science |
Alfred Jarry
Biographical statement French, 1873–1907
Born 1873 (click to view other people born in this year)Died 1907
Nationality French
Gender Male
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Exhibitions
In this dataset, Alfred Jarry was involved in 5 exhibitions across 2 decades.
- Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1990s with 4 exhibitions.
- Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 2000s with 1 exhibitions.
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Century of Artists Books | |||
| 2 | Fantastic Prints | |||
| 3 | Paris-the 1890s | |||
| 4 | Miró's Black and Red Series: New Acquisitions |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Useless Science |