The Museum of Modern Art - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for The Museum of Modern Art. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
"Postwar Japanese Art" Symposium
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[1]- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-11-13 - 2008-11-13
This moderated discussion explores the work of artists, collectives, and movements in Japan since the 1940s. Panelists include several Japanese curators currently at MoMA on exchange: Michiko Kasahara, (...)
Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese "Conversations with Contemporary Artists"
[0] [0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-10-30 - 2008-10-30
With every presidential election beginning in 1984, Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese have compiled and edited Political Advertisement, a historical survey of television campaign spots from 1952 to the (...)
"A Night Reading: An Evening of Poetry Dedicated to Vincent van Gogh"
[0] [0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-10-06 - 2008-10-06
Throughout his short career, Vincent van Gogh grappled with the daunting problem of painting light at night. The current exhibition features depictions by the artist of twilight and nocturnal landscapes, (...)
"Canyon Cinema" Film Program
[0] [0]- Media: Film
- 2008-10-06 - 2008-10-06
The Department of Film presents a book signing and film screening to mark the recent publication of Scott MacDonald's "Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor" (University (...)
"Delwende and Some African Films from the Collection" Film Program
[0] [0]- Media: Film
- 2008-10-05 - 2008-10-13
The week-long run of S. Pierre Yameogo's "Delwende" is accompanied by a selection from MoMA's collection of works about Africa by African filmmakers: Yamina Bachir-Chouikh's "Rachida," Mehdi Charef's "Daughter (...)
"Projects 88: Lucy McKenzie" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Prints
- 2008-09-10 - 2008-12-01
Combining painting, printmaking, and drawing with public events such as concerts, poetry readings, and performances, Lucy McKenzie (b. 1977, Glasgow) goes far beyond the production of objects in her artistic (...)
Gallery Talk "Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling" with Cari Frisch
[0] [0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-08-25 - 2008-08-25
Museum lecturers, educators, graduate students, and occasionally curators lead talks in the collection and special exhibitions daily at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Audiences learn about the historical context (...)
"Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling" Gallery Talk with Cari Frisch
[0] [0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-08-20 - 2008-08-20
Museum lecturers, educators, graduate students, and occasionally curators lead talks in the collection and special exhibitions daily at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Audiences learn about the historical context (...)
Gallery Talk "Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling" with Marianne Eggler
[0] [0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-08-18 - 2008-08-18
Museum lecturers, educators, graduate students, and occasionally curators lead talks in the collection and special exhibitions daily at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Audiences learn about the historical context (...)
"Salvador Dalí: Consumer/Consumed" Film Program
[0] [0]- Media: Film
- 2008-08-04 - 2008-09-15
In the natural world, the acts of consuming and being consumed create an inherent tension between organisms; the transfer of energy that links organisms in a specific community creates producers and primary (...)
"Kirchner and the Berlin Street" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Prints
- 2008-08-03 - 2008-11-10
This exhibition brings together German Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's renowned Street Scenes series, created between 1913 and 1915. Considered by many to be the highpoint of Kirchner's career as (...)
"Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Photography - Prints
- 2008-07-30 - 2008-11-10
Wunderkammern, or cabinets of curiosities, arose in mid-sixteenth-century Europe as repositories for all manner of wondrous and exotic objects. In essence these collections which combined specimens, diagrams, (...)
Gallery Talk "Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling" with Nader Vossoughian
[0] [0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-07-27 - 2008-07-27
Museum lecturers, educators, graduate students, and occasionally curators lead talks in the collection and special exhibitions daily at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Audiences learn about the historical context (...)
"Dreamland: Architectural Experiments since the 1970s" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Architecture
- 2008-07-23 - 2008-10-27
Rem Koolhaas's watercolor "Plan of Dreamland" (1977), a recent acquisition, is the point of departure for this presentation of selections from the Architecture and Design collection. "Dreamland: Architectural (...)
"Young Architects Program 2008" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Architecture
- 2008-07-20 - 2008-10-20
The Young Architects Program, jointly presented by MoMA and P.S.1 each year since 2000, enables emerging architects to design creative interpretations of P.S.1's large entrance courtyard, with the winning (...)
"Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling" Exhibition
[0] [7]- Media: Architecture - Product
- 2008-07-20 - 2008-10-20
This exhibition surveys the past, present and future of the prefabricated home and displays the process of architectural design and production in equal measure with the actual end result. Within the gallery, (...)
"Focus: Picasso Sculpture" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2008-07-03 - 2008-11-03
Pablo Picasso is perhaps best known for his paintings, but his sculptures are among the most radical, thought-changing works of art of the modern period. This installation, drawn from the Museum's collection, (...)
"Dalí: Painting and Film" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Film
- 2008-06-29 - 2008-09-15
Bringing together more than 130 paintings, drawings, scenarios, and films by Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), this exhibition explores the role that cinema played in the artist's work. Both an inspiration and (...)
"Zeitgeist: The Films of Our Time"
[0] [0]- Media: Film
- 2008-06-26 - 2008-07-23
In 1988, in an office the size of an elevator, two women of extraordinary vision launched a distribution company they named Zeitgeist Films. The films and directors that Emily Russo and Nancy Gerstman (...)
"Salvador Dalí: Creator/Collaborator" Film Program
[0] [0]- Media: Film
- 2008-06-20 - 2008-06-28
Salvador Dalí was born in Figueres, Spain, on May 11, 1904. Sala Edison, the first cinema in Figueres, opened seven months later— a curious convergence that foreshadowed Dalí's enduring relationship with (...)
"Geo/Metric: Prints and Drawings from the Collection" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Prints
- 2008-06-11 - 2008-08-18
This exhibition surveys the widespread and recurring impulse toward geometric abstraction in modern and contemporary art. Artists representing various movements and geographical backgrounds are featured: (...)
"Celebrating Summer" Film Series
[0] [0]- Media: Film
- 2008-06-01 - 2008-06-26
MoMA celebrates the season by delving into the film archives to gather a selection of significant works set during the summer. But rest assured, these features are anything but sunny. Vacations come with (...)
Bernd and Hilla Becher "Landscape/Typology"
[0] [3]- Media: Photography
- 2008-05-21 - 2008-08-25
The German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, who began working together in 1959 and married in 1961, are best known for their "typologies"— grids of black-and-white photographs of variant examples of a single (...)
"Dada at MoMA" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Illustration - Drawing - Photography
- 2008-05-21 - 2008-07-28
To coincide with the launch of the Museum's ambitious publication Dada in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, the ninth volume of MoMA's Studies in Modern Art series, this exhibition provides an (...)
Olafur Eliasson "Take Your Time"
[0] [3]- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Installation
- 2008-04-20 - 2008-06-30
"Take your time: Olafur Eliasson" is the first comprehensive survey in the United States of works by Olafur Eliasson, whose immersive environments, sculptures, and photographs elegantly recreate the extremes (...)
"Jazz Score" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Prints - Other - Film
- 2008-04-16 - 2008-09-15
The introduction of contemporary jazz to film scoring in the mid-twentieth century brought fresh forms of sophistication and innovation to world cinema. Musicians like Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, John (...)
"Glossolalia: Languages of Drawing" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing
- 2008-03-26 - 2008-07-07
Organized by Connie Butler, The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings, "Glossolalia: Languages of Drawing" features selected works from MoMA's drawings collection. Some artists have always (...)
"Book/Shelf" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Prints - Sculpture
- 2008-03-26 - 2008-07-07
Organized by Christophe Cherix, Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, "Book/Shelf" features works that transform books through a variety of mediums and stresses an expanded notion of the (...)
"Geometry of Motion 1920s/1970s" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Illustration - Drawing - Photography
- 2008-03-19 - 2008-06-23
Organized by Klaus Biesenbach, Chief Curator, Department of Media, and Roxana Marcoci, Curator, Department of Photography, "Geometry of Motion 1920s/1970s" considers the transformation of the art object (...)
"Projects 87: Sigalit Landau" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Video installation
- 2008-03-19 - 2008-07-28
Sigalit Landau has produced several works that explore her native Israeli landscape in a performative way, primarily through a video trilogy that experiments with circular movements and the act of spinning. (...)
"Focus: Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2008-03-03 - 2008-05-14
This installation, drawn from the Museum's collection of paintings by Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko, focuses specifically on the fertile years between the late 1940s and the early 1960s, during which each (...)
"Machine for Living Color" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Graphics - Other
- 2008-03-03 - 2008-05-14
Concurrent with the exhibition "Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today," this installation of Library and Conservation Department materials documents color charting in twentieth-century publications, (...)
"Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today" Exhibition
[0] [2]- Media: Painting - Installation - Video installation
- 2008-03-02 - 2008-05-12
"Color Chart" celebrates a paradox: the lush beauty that results when contemporary artists assign color decisions to chance, readymade source, or arbitrary system. Midway through the twentieth century, (...)
"Design and the Elastic Mind" Exhibition
[0] [3]- Media: Installation - Product - Digital
- 2008-02-24 - 2008-05-12
In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality. Working across several time zones, (...)
"Just In: Recent Acquisitions from the Collection" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Architecture - Product
- 2007-12-21 - 2008-11-30
Organized by Paola Antonelli, Curator, and Christian Larsen, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, this installation draws from acquisitions made over the past two years by the Department (...)
"Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Prints - Sculpture
- 2007-11-21 - 2008-07-21
Around 1970, a period in which established values and institutions came into question generally, there was also a shift in critical thinking about art. The term "pluralism" came to describe a complicated (...)
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