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Beat the mid-winter blues with a month full of great exhibitions and
programs at MoMA. Opening this February are Eugène Atget: "Documents
pour artistes" (February 6), featuring over 100 works by this pioneer of
20th-century photography, Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream
(February 15), a timely look at architectural possibilities in the
aftermath of the recent foreclosure crisis, and the career-spanning
retrospective Cindy Sherman (February 26). Print/Out (February 19) and
Printin' (February 15), along with the free interactive space Print Studio, offer a trio of ways to see—and experience—today's print medium
and the contemporary work it inspires. James Rosenquist's monumental F-111,
wrapped around four walls as it was when it premiered in 1965 at the Castelli Gallery, is now on view and not to be missed. February is also Doc Month in
MoMA's theaters, including our annual festival of notable recent
nonfiction fims, Documentary Fortnight 2012 (February 16), and at MoMA PS1
idiosyncratic L.A. artist Henry Taylor's work is now on view.
On February 2, stop by MoMA Nights for music, a cash bar, and
special dining menus. To celebrate Valentine's Day, spend a romantic
evening at the Museum with wine, hors d'oeuvres, and a tour of the
galleries, share MoMA with a loved one by giving the gift of MoMA
membership, find the perfect gift in our stores, or register yourself or
a friend for a fascinating Online Course, including two new Courses on
collage and on artistic developments after World War II (Courses begin
February 27). MoMA's new Media Lounge opens in late February, so be sure
to visit this immersive installation where you can select and watch
videos from MoMA's extensive collection.
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Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream
February 15–July 30
During summer 2011, five teams of architects, urban planners, ecologists, engineers, and landscape designers worked in public workshops at MoMA PS1 to envision new housing and transportation infrastructures for America's post-foreclosure-crisis cities and suburbs. This installation presents the proposals developed during this architects-in-residence program, including a wide array of models, renderings, animations, and analytical materials.
Read the ongoing series of Foreclosed blog posts at INSIDE/OUT, a MoMA/MoMA PS1 blog.
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Print/Out
February 19–May 14
The print medium is flourishing, from the resurgence of ancient printmaking techniques—these days, often used with digital technologies—to a worldwide explosion of self-published artists' books and ephemera. This exhibition brings together over 200 works drawn from major artists and publishing projects, including Ai Weiwei, Lucy McKenzie, Edition Jacob Samuel, and SUPERFLEX. Printin' (February 15), a section within Print/Out (February 19) that focuses on traditional ideas of what a print can be, and Print Studio (through March 9), an interactive, FREE space where you can experiment with printing techniques, attend workshops, and more, will also be open, in conjunction with Print/Out.
VISIT THE PRINT STUDIO SITE
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 Cindy Sherman
February 26–June 11
One of the most influential artists in contemporary art, Cindy Sherman has presented throughout her career a sustained, eloquent, and provocative study of contemporary identity and the nature of representation, drawn from an unlimited supply of images from movies, TV, magazines, the Internet, and art history. Bringing together more than 170 photographs, this retrospective survey traces the artist's career from the mid-1970s to the present, including the American premiere of Sherman's photographic murals (2010). In conjunction with the exhibition, Sherman selected films from MoMA's collection that will be screened in MoMA's theaters in April.
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 Eugène Atget: "Documents pour artistes"
February 6–April 9
This exhibition presents over 100 works in six fresh and highly focused cross sections through the artist's career. The sign outside Atget's studio read "Documents pour artistes,"—declaring his modest ambition to create photographic images for other artists to use as source material. Whether exploring Paris's fifth arrondissement throughout the first
quarter of the 20th century, or the abandoned grandeur of the parks at Sceaux during a creative outburst in the spring of 1925, Atget captured the essence of his chosen subject with increasing sensitivity.
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James Rosenquist: F-111
Ongoing
James Rosenquist's monumental, 23-panel F-111 is currently on view on MoMA's fourth floor, wrapped around four walls in the same way it was first exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in 1965. A member of the Pop art movement in the 60s and a former billboard painter, Rosenquist created F-111 during the Vietnam War, and cites among his inspirations the economic impact the war had on America's taxpayers and consumer society, and experimenting with the concept of peripheral vision.
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 Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art
Through May 14
In December 1931, two years after its founding, MoMA inaugurated a major exhibition of work by the famous Mexican artist Diego Rivera. To solve the problem of how to present Rivera's work, which was made on-site, MoMA gave the artist space in the Museum to create his work. Five of these murals, which include the three inspired by his stay in New York, as well as designs, drawings, and archival materials, are reunited at MoMA for the first time in 80 years.
VISIT THE EXHIBITION SITE
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Film
 Documentary Fortnight: MoMA's International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media
February 16–28
MoMA's annual two-week showcase of recent nonfiction film is an international selection of work that examines the relationship between contemporary art and nonfiction filmmaking and reflects on new areas of nonfiction practice. This year's festival includes both feature-length and short documentary films, a retrospective of works from Paper Tiger Television's 30 years of media activism, and a seminar on database documentary practices—an emergent form of interactive narrative and nonlinear filmmaking that employs computer and Web-based media.
Also on view:
Oscar's Docs, 1950–87: Creative Expression,
The Story of Film: An Odyssey,
Modern Mondays, and more
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Programs & Events
 MoMA Courses Online
Registration is now open for Winter/Spring 2012 Online Courses, including two new Instructor-Led Online Courses beginning February 27.
Learn about modern art in a contemporary way. Enjoy quality videos shot in MoMA's galleries and world-class faculty from the convenience of your own computer with MoMA Courses Online, taught exclusively at MoMA.org. Choose from four Online Courses, including new ones on collage and on artistic developments from Abstract Expressionism through 1989.
Registration for Self-Guided Online Courses, which offer a more independent learning experience, is also open.
Diego Rivera: From Mexico to Manhattan
Rivera at Rockefeller Center
Wednesday, February 8, 6:00 PM
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Daniel Okrent, author of Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center (2003), kicks off this lecture series with a talk on Rivera's controversial Rockefeller Center mural. Organized in conjunction with Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art.
Communist Tour of MoMA
Wednesday, February 15, 6:00 PM
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Material Lab
Through June 30, 2012
Touch, assemble, create, and explore materials in our latest interactive space.
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MoMA PS1
 Henry Taylor
Through April 9
This exhibition brings together more than 40 works by Los-Angeles based artist Henry Taylor, who applies his brush both to canvas and to unconventional materials such as suitcases and cigarette packs, offering an idiosyncratic perspective on culture and politics using everyone and everything around him as source material. Taylor studied art later in life, attending the California Institute of the Arts after working for ten years as a psychiatric technician at a state hospital.
Also on view: Clifford Owens: Anthology,
Surasi Kusolwong,
Rania Stephan,
Frances Stark: My Best Thing,
Darren Bader: Images,
Chim↑Pom and more.
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Masquerading as a myriad of characters, Cindy Sherman invents personas and tableaus that examine the construction of identity, the nature of representation, and the artifice of photography. To create her images, she assumes the multiple roles of photographer, model, makeup artist, hairdresser, and stylist. The exhibition Cindy Sherman (February 26–June 11) surveys the artist's career, from her early experiments as a student in Buffalo in the mid-1970s to the U.S. premiere of her recent large-scale photographic mural. Sherman's groundbreaking 1981 centerfolds series, which includes the above image, will also be featured; taking on the roles of both photographer (assumed to be male) and female model, these send-ups of men's erotic magazines depict a variety of women in different emotional states, ranging from terrified to heartbroken to melancholic.
Untitled #96. 1981. Chromogenic color print. Gift of Carl D. Lobell. © 2012 Cindy Sherman
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Images:
James Rosenquist. F-111 (detail). 1964–65. Oil on canvas with aluminum, 23 sections. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alex L. Hillman
and Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (both by exchange). © 2012 James Rosenquist/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY; Architectural model for Studio
Gang Architects' The Garden in the Machine project for Cicero, Illinois. Photograph courtesy of James Ewing. © 2012 James Ewing; Martin
Kippenberger. Content on Tour (Inhalt auf Reisen) (detail). 1992. Screenprint mounted on plywood, with unique alterations by the artist.
Publisher: Editions Artelier, Graz, Austria. Edition: 3 this size; 5 for three smaller sizes. © Estate Martin Kippenberger, Galerie Gisela
Capitain, Cologne. Photograph: Lothar Schnepf, Cologne; Cindy Sherman. Untitled #465 (detail). 2008. Chromogenic color print. Courtesy the
artist and Metro Pictures, New York © 2012 Cindy Sherman; Eugène Atget. Commissionnaire (detail). 1899–1900. Gelatin silver printing-out-paper
print. Abbott-Levy Collection. Partial gift of Shirley C. Burden; James Rosenquist. F-111 (detail). 1964–65. Oil on canvas with aluminum,
23 sections. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alex L. Hillman and Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (both by exchange). © 2012 James Rosenquist/Licensed
by VAGA, New York, NY; Diego Rivera. The Uprising (detail). 1931. Fresco on reinforced cement in a galvanized-steel framework. Private collection,
Mexico. © 2012 Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, México, D.F./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Taken By Storm: The
Art of Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis. 2011. USA. Directed by Roddy Bogawa. Pictured: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee/The Cranberries (album cover).
Courtesy of Storm Thorgerson, Roddy Bogawa; Henry Taylor. The Long Jump by Carl Lewis. 2010. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy the artist and Untitled,
New York. © 2012 Henry Taylor
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