The Museum of Modern Art
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SPRING2013
CONTENTS Plan Your Visit Programming: March Programming: April Programming: May MoMA Selections
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Current Exhibits Up-Coming Exhibits MoMA Special Collection Museum Store
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Plan Your Visit
Admission and Ticketing Adults $25 Seniors ( 65 and older with ID) $18 Studenyts (full-time with current ID) $14 Children (16 and under) Free Members Free Guests of Members (limit of 5 per visit) $5
About MoMA MoMA’s collection offers an overview of modern and contemporary art, including works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illurtrated books, and artist’s books, film, and electronic media.
MoMA & Design Store Hours Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday 10.30 AM - 5.30 PM Tuesday Friday
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Location
Admission is free for all visitors during target Free Friday Nights, held every Friday evening from 4.00 to 8.00 PM. Your Target Free Friday Night ticket permits you to all other Museum galleries, exhibitions, and films. Tickets for Target Free Friday Nights are not available in advance. Tickets must be book in advance. For bookings please call (212) 708-9400.
Parking The Museum does not have a parking garage. However, MoMA visitors and members receive discounted parking at nearby garages. Parking is first come, first served. The 1345 Garage 101-41 West 54 Street Icon 1330 Sixth Avenue Parking LLC Entrences at 94 West 54 Street and 75 West.
11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan, New York City, NY, between 5th and 6th avenues.
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MARCH 1
Space and Sequence in Contemporary Art Ian Wallace
Sign language–interpreted Gallery Conversations are held every fourth Sunday of the month at 1:30 p.m. FM headsets for sound amplification are available for all talks. Gallery Conversations are free with Museum admission. No registration is required; however, we suggest arriving 10 minutes prior to the start of a talk, as groups are limited to 25. Lecture - 3.30-4.30 PM
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Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1994)
Film Screening - 4:30-5.45 PM
Telling Tales: Stories in Art Engage in lively discussions and fun activities while looking closely at modern masterpieces and cutting-edge contemporary art. Each month a new theme is introduced.
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Ashes and Diamonds (1958) Poland. Directed by Andrzej Wajda.
Wajda’s study of postwar Polish society was revolutionary in both a political and a cinematic sense. Cybulski somewhat emulated James Dean on screen—and in his tragic early death. Wajda has gone on to become the grand old man of Polish cinema, the founder of a film school, and the mentor of Agnieszka Holland and Roman Polanski. In Polish; English subtitles. Special Film Screening - 1:30-3.15 PM
This Academy Award–winning feature documentary captures a decade in the life of visionary artist Maya Lin, who was only 21 when her design for the Washington, D.C., Vietnam Veterans Memorial—polished black granite inscribed with the 57,661 names of those who died in Vietnam—was selected in 1981.
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Family Program - 10:20–11:30 AM
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APRIL MoMA
Brush, Pour, Splatter: Looking at Paintings
Look, listen, and share ideas while you explore modern and contemporary art. Movement, drawing, and other gallery activities give everyone the chance to participate. Family Program - 10.30 - 11.15 AM
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An Exhibition Happening Everywhere, At All Times, with Everyone Copeland discusses the poetics of interstitial, neutral and otherwise overlooked off-spaces—and off-times—of museums and galleries. He envisages how they can be activated and seen anew through a variety of perspectives, and thus subvert the traditional role of exhibitions and renew the way they are perceived. Lecture, Curator Mathieu Copeland - 6:00 PM
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The MoMA welcomes visitors with developmental disabilities to join us for Create Ability, a program that focuses onexploring various artworks in the galleries and creating artworks in the classroom. Create Ability is free of charge. Access Program - 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
the Nature of Time (and Time29 Exploring lessness): The Art of Agnes Denes, Mona Hatoum, and Richard Long
Explore the overlap and contrasts between the practices of three living artists, Agnes Denes, Mona Hatoum, and Richard Long, who are known for using natural materials, working in nature, or bringing nature into the gallery space. Lecture by Larissa Bailiff - 2:30–1:15 p.m.
A Guerilla Performance by John Zorn As part of Kenneth Goldsmith’s Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA’s collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. This program is a part of MoMA’s Artists initiative. Performance - 12:30 p.m.
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The Defiant Ones (1958)
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USA. Directed by Stanley Kramer. With Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel.
Big and Little: Sculpture For kids age four and their adult companions. Look, listen, and share ideas while you explore modern and contemporary art. Movement, drawing, and other gallery activities give everyone the chance to participate. Family Program - 10:20–11:15 AM
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Contemporary Art Forum: Art at Large: Artmaking in the Long View The Contemporary Art Forum presents timely and innovative programs (lectures, conversations, and performances) that address pressing issues in contemporary art, and grow out of discussions with MoMA curators. Participants include artists and designers, critics, curators, and scholars, among others. Panel Discussion and Symposia 10:00 AM–5:00
In some ways a nearly forgotten artifact of the socially significant, serious school of Hollywood filmmaking, Kramer (1913–2001) cashed in on the struggle for racial equality, a nightly feature on television news, just as he would with nuclear war, the Holocaust, and interracial marriage. 6
Special Film Screenings - 1:30 PM
12 So Dreamy: Surrealism For kids ages eleven to fourteen and their adult companions. Kids and adults participate. Share ideas, exchange opinions, and consider different perspectives about works of art in MoMA’s collection and special exhibitions. Family Program - 10:30 AM –12:00 PM
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A b s t r a c t i o n 1910-1925 The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Exhibition Gallery, sixth floor
In 1912, in several European cities, a handful of artists—Vasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Francis Picabia, and Robert Delaunay—presented the first abstract pictures to the public. Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925 celebrates the centennial of this bold new type of artwork, tracing the development of abstraction as it moved through a network of modern artists, from Marsden Hartley and Marcel Duchamp to Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, sweeping across nations and across media. The exhibition brings together many of the most influential works in abstraction’s early history and covers a wide range of artistic production, including paintings, drawings, books, sculptures, films, photographs, sound poems, atonal music, and non-narrative dance, to draw a cross-media portrait of these watershed years.
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W o l f g a n g The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor Wolfgang Laib’s Pollen from Hazelnut will inhabit the Museum’s Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, infusing the space with a yellow luminosity. It will be the artist’s largest pollen installation to date, measuring approximately 18 x 21 feet. The hazelnut pollen that will be used in MoMA’s installation has been collected by Laib from the natural environment around his home and studio, in a small village in southern Germany, since the mid-1990s. Since the mid-1970s, Laib has been producing sculptures and installations marked by a serene presence and a reductive beauty. These works are often made from one or a combination of two materials, accumulated from natural elements—such as milk, marble, pollen, rice, and beeswax. Laib has stated that “pollen is the potential beginning of the life of the plant. It is as simple, as beautiful, and as complex as this. I think everybody who lives knows that pollen is important.” 8
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Architecture and Design Galleries, third floor There are still people who think that design is about making things, people, and places pretty. In truth, design has spread to almost every facet of human activity, from science and education to politics and policymaking, for a simple reason: one of design’s most fundamental tasks is to help people respond to change. A designer today can choose to focus on interactions, interfaces, the Internet, visualizations, socially minded infrastructures and products, 5-D spaces, bioengineering, sustainability, video games, critical scenarios, and yes, even furniture. Several outstanding examples of this vitality and diversity are presented in this installation, ranging from a mine detonator by young Afghani designer Massoud Hassani to a vessel made by transforming desert sand into glass using only the energy of the sun. Also on display are 14 videogames—including Pac-Man, The Sims, and Katari Damacy—that constitute the beginning of a new branch of MoMA’s collection. 9
SELECTION Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde The International Council of MoMA Exhibition Galleries, sixth floor From the mid-1950s through the 1960s, Tokyo transformed itself from the capital of a war-torn nation into an international center for arts, culture, and commerce, becoming home to some of the most important art being made at the time. Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde provides a focused look at the extraordinary concentration and network of creative individuals and practices in this dynamic city during these turbulent years. Featuring works of various media— painting, sculpture, photography, drawings, and graphic design—the exhibition offers a story of artistic crossings, collaborations, and, at times, conflicts, with the city as an incubator. It introduces the myriad avant-garde experiments that emerged as artists drew on the energy of this rapidly growing and changing metropolis.
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CURRENT EXHIBITS Artist’s Choice: Trisha Donnelly
Plywood: Material, Process, Form
The Shaping of New Visions: Photography, Film, Photobook
Figure in the Garden
Walking House
Painting and Sculpture I
Projects 99: Meiro Koizumi
Projects 99: Meiro Koizumi
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UP-COMING EXHIBITS
Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light
XL: 19 New Acquisitions in Photography This exhibition offers a critical assessment of photography’s role in contemporary art through a selection of recent major acquisitions, comprised primarily of multipart and serial works by 19 artists. 12
Brandt is a founding figure in photography’s modernist traditions, and this exhibition represents a major critical reevaluation of his career.
Ellsworth Kelly: Chatham Series In celebration of Ellsworth Kelly’s 90th birthday in May 2013, The Museum of Modern Art presents an exhibition of the first series of paintings the artist made after leaving New York City for Spencertown, in upstate New York, in 1970.
Isa Genzken This exhibition, the first comprehensive retrospective of Genzken’s 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.
The Mistery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938
Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes
Hand Signals Hands are explored in this selection of 20th-century posters and graphic ephemera drawn from the Museum’s collection.
MoMA presents the work of Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (1887–1965) encompassing his work as an architect, interior designer, artist, city planner, writer, and photographer.
A Trip from Here to There Using Mateo López’s “Viaje sin movimiento”—an installation of his drawings from this journey—as a starting point, A Trip from Here to There explores practices and works generated by walking and wandering.
This exhibition focuses exclusively on the breakthrough Surrealist years of René Magritte, creator of some of the 20th century’s most extraordinary images.
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On-View
special collection Architecture and Design
Familian House Project, Santa Monica, CA Frank O. Gehry
1977-78. Foam core board, cardboard, balsa, metallic foil, and grey paper. 14 x 25 x 50”. Gift from the architect Drawing
Spiderman Sigmar Polke
1971-74. Cut-and-pasted painted papers on canvas, 9’ 3 1/4” x 10’ 3”. 2013 Estate of Sigmar Polke / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany Painting and Sculpture
Blue Vase with Nasturtiums Judy Pfaff
1987. Enamel on steel and plastic laminate on wood, 9’ 7” x 8’ 6 1/2” x 66”. Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund and gift of an anonymous donor. Prints and Illustrated Books
Blue Vase with Nasturtiums Judy Pfaff
1987. Enamel on steel and plastic laminate on wood, 9’ 7” x 8’ 6 1/2” x 66”. Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund and gift of an anonymous donor. 14
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