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Get into the spirit of summer
at MoMA. Extended hours start Tuesday, June 26, with the Museum open seven days a week and late on Thursdays and Fridays
all summer—and remember you skip the line when you buy tickets online. Treat
yourself to a lunch break in the Sculpture Garden on June 8 and
15, when New York–based poets read their favorite lunch poems by
Frank O'Hara—then venture out into the city to write your own. Be sure to catch
Cindy Sherman, the retrospective The New York Times
declared "magnificent," before it closes on June 11. You can also become part of Martha Rosler's multimedia installation and performance
Meta-Monumental Garage Sale by cleaning
out your closet and dropping off your no-longer
valuables at MoMA and MoMA PS1 on June 2 and 3. At MoMA PS1, summer gets going with the winning
Young Architects Program outdoor installation,
Wendy by HWKN (July 1).
Have some time to be inspired this summer? Learn about modern and contemporary art from the comfort of your own computer with
MoMA Courses Online; registration is open now.
And don't forget Father's Day on June 17—bring dad to MoMA for a memorable day or shop the MoMA Stores for something
unique!
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Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I–XVIII
Through September 3
This exhibition marks the U.S. debut of Simon's powerful four-year photographic project in which the artist traveled the world researching and recording bloodlines and their related stories. In each of the work's chapters, the external forces of territory, power, circumstance, or religion collide with the internal forces of psychological and physical inheritance. The subjects Simon documents include victims of genocide in Bosnia, test rabbits infected with a lethal disease in Australia, and the living dead in India.
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See a video interview with the artist on Inside/Out.
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Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language
Through August 27
Bringing together 12 contemporary artists and artists' groups working in all mediums, this exhibition explores and updates the many possibilities inherent in the relationship between art and language. Letters, phrases, and words are seen and experienced, not necessarily read; made physical; transcribed into sounds, symbols, pictures, and patterns; and freed from their usual meaning and forms and, in some cases, freed from communication in general. Carl Andre, Marcel Duchamp, John Giorno, and Tauba Auerbach are among the many artists included in the exhibition.
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 The Shaping of New Visions: Photography, Film, Photobook
Ongoing
Since 1910, photography has had a strong role in the avant-garde and neo-avant-garde art movements. This exhibition focuses on the shaping of what
came to be known as "New Vision" photography—unconventional work such as photomontages, experimental films, and photobooks—and brings
together over 250 projects by numerous artists, including Man Ray, Helen Levitt, Ed Ruscha, and Martha Rosler.
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Cindy Sherman
Through June 11
"Magnificent"—The New York Times
One of the most influential artists in contemporary art, Cindy Sherman has presented a sustained, eloquent, and provocative study of contemporary
identity throughout her career, drawn from an unlimited supply of images from movies, TV, magazines, the Internet, and art history. This retrospective
includes over 170 photographs, from the mid 1970s to the present, and the American premiere of Sherman's recent photographic murals.
Read the Cindy Sherman blog posts on Inside/Out.
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 James Rosenquist: F-111
Through July 30
Artist James Rosenquist has said "painting is much more exciting than advertising," and this sentiment is evident in F-111, currently installed on MoMA's fourth floor. A member of the Pop art movement in the 1960s and former billboard painter, Rosenquist's early work borrowed the cheery palette of giant advertising signs while fusing images of American prosperity with a dark visual current. Painted during the Vietnam War, F-111 clearly draws connections between militarism and America's consumerist structure, with the titular U.S. Air Force fighter-bomber weaving through images such as a smiling girl under a missile-like hairdryer and a sea of spaghetti noodles.
Join the conversation on the interactive F-111 website.
Read the F-111 blog post on Inside/Out.
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 Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream
Through August 13
"One leaves the show with newfound optimism about what architecture can do."—Architectural Record
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 on Inside/Out.
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Film
 Lourdes Portillo: La Cineasta Inquisitiva
June 22–30
For over 30 years, Mexican-born filmmaker Lourdes Portillo has made award-winning films that explore Latin American, Mexican, and Chicano experiences and
social-justice issues. This film series includes over 10 of her films, from her first, After the Earthquake, about a young Nicaraguan
woman immigrating to the U.S. in 1979, to her most recent, Más Allá (Beyond the Beyond), about drug trafficking on the Mexican coastline.
Also on view:
MoMA Presents: Natalia Almada's El Velador/The Night Watchman,
MoMA Presents: Asli Ozge's Men on the Bridge, An Auteurist History of Film, and more
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Programs & Events
Material Lab
Through August 31
Touch, assemble, create, and explore materials in our latest interactive space.
MoMA Courses Online
Registration for the Summer Courses Online is now open, but hurry as Instructor-Led Courses begin June 4 and courses often sell out. Choose between four fascinating selections to learn about modern and contemporary art with exclusive videos shot in MoMA's galleries and world-class faculty, all from the convenience of your own computer. Sign up today!
Conversations with Contemporary Artists:
Artist Shannon Ebner in Conversation with writer Angie Keefer
Wednesday, June 20, 6:00 p.m.
What role do words and language play in art? Join Shannon Ebner, who temporarily places and strategically displaces her handmade letters and signs in public places, and writer/editor/librarian Angie Keefer, as they discuss their collaborations.
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MoMA PS1
Lara Favaretto: Just Knocked Out
Through September 10
Comprising a dozen works from the past 15 years, as well as new pieces created specifically for this exhibition, Lara Favaretto: Just Knocked Out
is the first survey of the artist's installations and audio, sculptural, and kinetic works, which study themes including failure, aspiration, and the
eventuality of loss.
Also on view: Max Brand: no solid footing — (trained) duck fighting a crow,
Young Architects Program: Wendy by HWKN, and more.
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Henri Matisse. Dance (I). Paris, Boulevard des Invalides, early 1909. Oil on canvas. Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller in honor of Alfred H. Barr, Jr. © 2012 Succession H. Matisse, Paris/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
On loan to the High Museum in Atlanta for the past nine months, Dance (I) is once again on view at MoMA in the fifth-floor Painting and Sculpture Galleries.
In March 1909, Matisse received a commission from the Russian merchant Sergei Shchukin for two large decorative panels, Dance and Music (now in the
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg). This painting was made quickly as a compositional study for Dance II, which was intended to hang on a staircase
landing at Shchukin's Trubetskoy Palace in Moscow. The figure at left appears to move purposefully, while the other dancers seem to float weightlessly.
The momentum of their movement breaks the circle as the arm of the foreground dancer reaches out. Dance, Matisse once said, evoked "life and rhythm."
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Images, from top:
Shannon Ebner. AGITATE. 2010. Four Chromogenic color prints. Collection Shane Akeroyd. © 2012 Shannon Ebner;
Taryn Simon. Chapter III from A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I–XVIII (detail). 2011. Pigmented inkjet prints. Courtesy the artist.
© 2012 Taryn Simon; Tauba Auerbach. Alexander Melville Bell's Visible Speech (vowels) (detail). 2006. Gouache, ink, and pencil on paper.
Collection Alexandra Bowes and Stephen Williamson. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. © 2012 Tauba Auerbach; Robert Heinecken.
Recto/Verso #2 (detail). 1988. Silver dye bleach print. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Clark Winter Fund.
© 2012 The Robert Heinecken Trust; Cindy Sherman. Untitled #424. 2004. Chromogenic color print. Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures, New York.
© 2012 Cindy Sherman; James Rosenquist. F-111 (detail). 1964–65. Oil on canvas with aluminum. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Mr. and Mrs.
Alex L. Hillman and Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (both by exchange). © 2012 James Rosenquist/Licensed by VAGA, New York; Rendering of Studio Gang
Architects' The Garden in the Machine project for Cicero, Illinois. Image courtesy Studio Gang Architects; Columbus on Trial. 1993. USA.
Directed by Lourdes Portillo; Material Lab. Photo by Martin Seck; Installation view of Lara Favaretto: Just Knocked Out at MoMA PS1, 2012.
Photo by Matthew Septimus. © MoMA PS1; Member Previews image: Alighiero Boetti. Io che prendo il sole a Torino il 19 gennaio 1969
(Me sunbathing in Turin 19 January 1969). 1969. 101 concrete stones. Private collection, Turin. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome
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