Tag: Museum of Modern Art

When in need: Dial-a-Poem

The Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language exhibit at MoMA "brings together historical and contemporary works of art that treat language not merely as a system of communication governed by grammatical rules and assigned meanings, but as a material that can be manipulated with creative freedom"One of the cooler components of the exhibit is Dial-a-Poem; four rotary phones on display that when picked up will treat you to an original recording of a poet reading one of their works. And what if you can't make it to New York in the next few months? You can still partake by calling the local...

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