From this year the visitors of MoMA they will have more frequent and targeted opportunities to discover new works of art and artists and will be able to plan ahead to experience them first. Here is the rich program.
Body Constructs Gallery 417 from January 5, 2024
Modern architects and designers they imagined not only new buildings and objects, but also the bodies that would inhabit and use them. Covering the period between approximately 1945 and 1975, this gallery includes works by Henry Dreyfuss, VALIE EXPORT, Michael Webb and Niki de Saint Phalle, among others, many of them on display at MoMA for the first time. They explore the frictions of modernism with the issues of gender, race and disability that continue to occur be prevalent in architectural practice to this day. Work that relied on ergonomics to reduce the human body to a set of universally applicable “average” values for standardized designs will be juxtaposed with countercultural experiments that treated the body as a site of perpetual reconfiguration. Body Constructs is organized by Evangelos Kotsioris, Assistant Curator and Paula Vilaplana, Assistant Curator, Department of Architecture and Planning. In the shadow of the American dream
Gallery 202 Opening 1 March 2024
In New York in the 80s, artists were producing work on the front lines of an embattled landscape marked by urban desolation, financial precarity, and medical hardship. As the AIDS epidemic ravaged their community, the artists harnessed the city's energy to resist the disenfranchisement they were encountering. Regarding his paintings of shuttered storefronts on the city's Lower East Side, artist Martin Wong wrote: “I wanted to focus on some of the endless layers of conflict and confinement that keep us all bound together in this life without possibilities. of conditional release". Wong's Houston Street (1986) first seen at MoMA will be shown, along with other recently acquired works by Agosto Machado, Donald Moffett and Marion Scemama. Recalling a time when many lives were lost and entire neighborhoods razed, the works featured in this gallery embody the eloquence of anger from a generation of artists who lived, to quote David Wojnarowicz, “in the shadow of the The chief curator of Media and Performances by Lonti Ebers and Sophie Cavoulacos, Associate Curator of the Film Department, with Abby Hermosilla, Curatorial Assistant of the “American Dream” Department. In the shadow of the American dream is organized by Stuart Comer, Curatorial Affairs.
A Cubist Salon Gallery 503 Opening 5 April 2024
The term "Cubist” – which is said to originate in the artist's description Henri Matisse of the paintings made in 1908 by Georges Braque as “cubes” – has always sought to adapt to the many different ideas, ambitions, alliances and sources of inspiration of the artists associated with this quintessential movement of the early 20th century. This densely arranged gallery, with paintings of various sizes stacked cheek by cheek, nods to the crowded arrangements of artworks often found in artists' studios and on the walls of private collectors' homes, as well as public display of some of the cubist masterpieces. works of painters in exhibitions called salons. The goal is to describe Cubism as a heterogeneous, unstable and dynamic movement in the making, defined by works produced by an international community of artists in the years immediately preceding and during the First World War, united in their determination, as the poet wrote Guillaume Apollinaire. in The Cubist Painters (1913), to create an “entirely new” art. Works by artists traditionally associated with Cubism are presented in dialogue with those of artists aligned with various other avant-garde movements of the early 1908th century, but who lived, worked, or passed through Paris at different times between 1918 and XNUMX. A Cubist Salon is organized by Anne Umland, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, with Rachel Remick, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Curatorial Affairs.
Dance Index Gallery 409 Opening May 3rd
This gallery features photographers' unique responses to the rhythm and lines of mid-century dance, as well as artists' use of the camera to capture choreography in the world around them. The gallery borrows its title from a magazine founded by Lincoln Kirstein—also closely associated with MoMA—although here the photography itself could be seen as a sort of “dance index,” the works included moving between the study of dance and the “stage”. ” of the street, capturing the steps and their sequence both in formal performance and in everyday movement. For Shirley Clarke's film In Paris Parks (1954), the director, who herself trained with Martha Graham, set to music the natural rhythms of the city's parks – the card players and joyful children. She later observed that “you can make dance films without using dancers.” Dance Index is organized by Lucy Gallun, Curator, Department of Photography, with Rachel Rosin, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Curatorial Affairs.
Illusions of Life Gallery 206 Opening 7 June 2024
“My belief is that there is mystery and spirituality in the most banal things. So my interest could be to reveal or make a crack in that mundanity and show a miraculous glimpse of it,” said the artist Haegue yang. Anchored by Yang's Sallim (2009), this gallery looks at the private sphere on a public scale, exploring how vulnerability, creativity and the everyday coincide in the spaces where we live and work. Sallim, which refers to the Korean word for “housekeeping,” conjures a ghostly model of the kitchen in Yang's Berlin apartment, where she lived and worked. Familiar objects and spaces of routine life become material for intimate explorations of the monumental: questions of time, perspective and self. Illusions of Life is organized by Lanka Tattersall, Laurenz Foundation Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, and Erica Papernik-Shimizu, Associate Curator, Department of Media and Performance, with Abby Hermosilla, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Curatorial Affairs.
Langston Gallery 510 Opening July 5, 2024
Il Harlem Renaissance, a period between the end of World War I and the beginning of the Great Depression, was a time when intellectuals, activists, and artists experienced unprecedented freedom of expression and opportunity and sought to define what it meant to be black in a new century . Nearly 65 years later, British artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien released Looking for Langston (1989), a tribute to poet Langston Hughes that offers a poetic exploration of black, queer, and artistic identities through the lens of the Harlem Renaissance. With Julien's groundbreaking film at its center, this gallery presents works of photography and drawings from MoMA's collection (many on display at the Museum for the first time) to collapse two periods of artistic production and exploration – the Harlem Renaissance and the 80s – illustrating the important role that artists played in portraying the vibrancy of black life, as well as the complexities that arise from this act. Looking for Langston is organized by Antoinette Roberts, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Photography, with Rachel Remick, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Curatorial Affairs.
Romare Bearden Gallery 416 Opening 2 August 2024
Romare bearden he has continually reinvented his art throughout his sixty-year career. Best known for his innovative collage practice of the 60s and later, he first gained acclaim in the 40s for both figurative drawings and abstract paintings. Although as a young man he chafed at the expectation that his work reflect his race and identity, Bearden eventually came to embrace the subject of black American life, and this inspired much of his work. Drawing from MoMA's rich holding of Bearden's works, along with archival material from his retrospective at the Museum in 1971, this gallery will highlight the artist's multifaceted artistic engagement with postwar America. Romare Bearden is organized by Esther Adler, Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, with Rachel Rosin, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Curatorial Affairs. Coenties artists slide
Gallery 516 Inauguration 4 October 2024
This gallery will house a community of artists who lived and worked in one of the oldest streets on the south-eastern edge of Manhattan for a short time in the 50s and 60s, including Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Delphine Seyrig, Lenore Tawney and Jack Youngerman. Attracted by cheap rent, open space, and solitude, artists lived and worked in former industrial sails and lofts, and often incorporated objects salvaged from the demolition around them into their art. They never formed a movement; their diverse art includes abstraction and figuration, textiles, assemblages, film and painting, but they all had significant discoveries at the Coenties Slip that changed the landscape of modern art and supported each other in their need to be both part and separated from the cultural scene. The Artists of Coenties Slip is organized by Samantha Friedman, curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, and Prudence Peiffer, Director, Contents, with Rachel Remick, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Curatorial Affairs.
