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Walking in Paint-Spattered Footsteps

by Lisa Cooley

FOOTSTEPS

It was about placement. “You would never hang anything that way now,” she said with a low, unrushed laugh. “You wouldn’t hang anything above a radiator. You wouldn’t hang anything flush against a corner. It is just a change in aesthetics.

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“It’s just a change in asthetics!”

Discusses a MoMA Show on Ileana Sonnabend

Lisa Cooley stood for a moment, a crowd of museumgoers swarming around her, looking at a black-and-white photograph of Jasper Johns paintings installed at the Galerie Ileana Sonnabend in Paris in 1962. But when she spoke, it was not about the quality of the work displayed, the era in which it was made or even about the artist who created it.

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“Dinner time!” Exhibit located in the main gallery. Summer 2014

“While we celebrate Sonnabend for the uniqueness of her achievements,” she wrote, “it is important to realize that she epitomizes an essential figure within the history of modern art: the woman art dealer.”

There’s just more space around things.”

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Ms. Cooley was at the Museum of Modern Art, taking in “Ambassador for the New,” a show dedicated to the work of Ms. Sonnabend, a legendary figure in the art world and a woman who, like Ms. Cooley, put her name on her own business.

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The Lisa Cooley gallery on Norfolk Street on the Lower East Side is known for showing sometimes amusing conceptual art that speaks to the viewer. both intellectually and visually.

CONTENTS IN THE SPOTLIGHT...................2 NEW SHOWCASES..................... 3 IN THE COMMUNITY............... 4 WWW.MOMA.ORG 11 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019A (212) 708-9400

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Shedding Light on Featured Artists

Isa Genzken Germany’s Own Isa Genzken is arguably one of the most important and influential female artists of the past 30 years. This exhibition, the first comprehensive retrospective of her diverse body of work in an American museum, and the largest to date, encompasses Genzken’s work in all mediums over the past 40 years. Above: Isa Genzken. Schauspieler (Actors) (detail). 2013. Mannequins, clothes, shoes, fabric, and paper, dimensions variable.

Isa Genzke

is arguably one of the most important and influential female artists of the past 30 years. This exhibition, the first comprehensive retrospective of her diverse body of work in an American museum, and the largest to date, encompasses Genzken’s work in all mediums over the past 40 years.

assemblage sculptures, the breadth of her achievement— which includes not only threedimensional work but also paintings, photographs, collages, drawings, artist’s books, films, and public sculptures—is still largely unknown in this country. Many of the nearly 150 objects in the exhibition are on view in the United States for the first time.

Although a New York art audience might be familiar with Genzken’s more recent

Genzken’s work has been part of the artistic discourse since she began exhibiting in the

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mid-1970s, but over the last decade a new generation has been inspired by her radical inventiveness. The past 10 years have been particularly productive for Genzken, who, with a new language of found objects and collage, has created several bodies of work that have redefined assemblage for a new era. These groups of sculptures range from smaller, dioramalike works to room-filling installations.


NEW SHOWCASES WORK IN THE SHOWCASE

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What’s New at the MoMA

Walker Evans American Photographs July 19, 2013–March 9, 2014 Artist/Novelist (René Crevel. Mr. Knife, Miss Fork) January 8–March 31, 2014

Painting & Sculpture I (Frida Kahlo. Self-Portrait) Ongoing

Designing Modern Women 1890–1990 October 5, 2013–September 21, 2014

Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New Through April 21

Robert Heinecken: Object Matter Opens March 15 3


THE COMMUNITY LOUNGE MoMA IN THE COMMUNITY Who We Serve Community Organization Staff & Collegues Participate in both on- and off-site workshops designed for staff, volunteers, coordinators, and managers of community organizations, and community leaders.

Organizations Serving Youth & Adults Explore various aspects of modern and contemporary art in interactive sessions that engage participants in discussion, and can include art making. See the Teen section for many more programs.

Organizations serving ABE, GED, & Adult ESOL Acquire literacy skills through engagement with works of art in MoMA’s collection. Experience MoMA through observation, analysis, and discussion.

Family Arts and Literacy Facilitate English language development by exploring MoMA’s collection while focusing on reading, writing, and conversation skills. For individual families, see our Kids & Families section. Programs can be at MoMA and off-site. 4

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