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Play has always been an important part of experiencing (and making) art.
This July, play becomes a central theme at MoMA, with a retrospective of
the conceptual, playful, and profound investigations of Alighiero Boetti,
and Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000 (July
29), an unprecedented exploration of 20th-century design for children. You can also download MoMA Art Lab, MoMA's first art-making
app designed for ages seven and up (but can be enjoyed by artists of all ages), to create and share your own artworks using shapes, lines, and colors.
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden is once again the setting
for outdoor music, with MoMA Nights, featuring live music every Thursday
night, and Summergarden performances on Sunday evenings (July 8–29). At
MoMA PS1, the courtyard comes to life with Wendy by HWKN, the latest
Young Architects Program (YAP) installation, and Warm Up's weekly dance
parties (online ticketing now available).
MoMA is open seven days a week all summer, so be sure to visit James
Rosenquist: F-111 (ends July 30) and Projects 97: Mark Boulos (ends July
16) before they're gone. And remember, you can skip the line when you buy your tickets online!
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Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan
Through October 1
Organized with the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid and the Tate Modern in London, this retrospective of the influential Italian Conceptual artist Alighiero Boetti is the largest to date outside of Italy. Spanning the artist's entire career, the exhibition includes artworks from his affiliation with the Arte Povera movement as well as beautiful, intricate embroideries of maps and chessboards, large-scale ballpoint-pen drawings, sculptures, puzzles, calligraphy, and more.
Read an interview with the artist team Dexter Sinister on Inside/Out.
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Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000
July 29–November 5
In 1900, Swedish design reformer Ellen Key's book Century of the Child presaged the 20th century as a time of progressive thinking regarding the rights, development, and well-being of children, regarding them as interests of the utmost importance to society. This ambitious survey encompasses many areas of design, including architecture, clothing, toys and games, furniture, and books—the result of modern architects, designers, and artists both famous and unsung, many of whom are women, who worked specifically with children in mind.
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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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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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 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 (through July 30). A member of the Pop art movement of the 60s and a former billboard painter, Rosenquist painted F-111 during the Vietnam War, and the work 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
 Premiere Brazil!
July 12–27
The 10th edition of Premiere Brazil!, which introduces audiences to both new and established Brazilian filmmakers and their work, features many special treats this
year, including a restored print of Leon Hirszman's beloved and award-winning 1972 drama São Bernardo, and two films, made by five young directors,
about life in the favelas (shantytowns in Brazil). All films are New York premieres, and initial screenings will be introduced by the filmmaker/s.
Also on view:
MoMA Presents: Michael Aviad's Invisible,
MoMA Presents: ContemporAsian, Unaccompanied Minors: Views of Youth in Films from the Collection, Modern Mondays, An Auteurist History of Film, and more
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Programs & Events
MoMA Art Lab App
Looking to get creative this summer? MoMA's new iPad app features art-making activities for the entire family and offers fun activities inspired by modern and contemporary
artworks in MoMA's collection. You can create your own artworks using shapes, lines, and colors, or create a sound composition, a shape poem, a group drawing, and more.
The MoMA Art Lab app is designed for kids ages seven and up but can be enjoyed by artists of all ages. Now available at the App Store for $4.99.
MoMA Summer Courses Online
Registration for summer Self-Guided Courses, which offer a more independent learning experience, is open. Sign up today!
Material Lab
Through August 31
Touch, assemble, create, and explore materials in our latest interactive space.
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MoMA PS1
Wendy by HWKN
Through September 8
Winner of this year's Young Architects Program (YAP), Wendy by HWKN meets the challenge of
"testing the boundaries of how far architecture can expand to create ecological and social effect." Composed of nylon fabric created with a groundbreaking spray that
neutralizes airborne pollutants, Wendy will clean the air to an equivalent of taking 260 cars off the road during its summer-long installation at MoMA PS1.
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Also on view: Lara Favaretto: Just Knocked Out,
Max Brand: no solid footing – (trained) duck fighting a crow,
Solo projects by Rey Akdogan, Edgardo Aragón, Ilja Karilampi, and Caitlin Keogh,
Esther Kläs – Better Energy, and more
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Richard Serra. Delineator. 1974–75. Hot rolled steel, two plates. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase © 2012 Richard Serra / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Richard Serra's Delineator (1974–75), the newest addition to MoMA's Department of Painting and Sculpture, is now on view in the
Museum's fourth-floor collection galleries, and consists of two rectangular steel plates, each measuring 10' x 26', that weigh in at two
and a half tons apiece. One plate lies flat on the floor and the other is suspended perpendicularly from the ceiling, forming a
dislocated cruciform shape that spans the full height of the room and delineates its volume. Serra has cited a longstanding interest
in making objects that "reveal the structure and content and character of a space." Viewers are invited to enter the work and walk,
at once, on top of and beneath it; with each step, the relationship between one's body, the sculpture, and the surrounding environment
shifts. In this state of heightened perceptual awareness "you're forced to acknowledge the space above, below, right, left, north, east,
south, west, up, down," Serra has observed. "All your psychophysical coordinates, your sense of orientation, are called into question
immediately."
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Images, from top: Alighiero Boetti. Mappa (Map). 1989–94. Embroidery on fabric. Collection Giordano Boetti, Rome. © 2012 Estate of Alighiero Boetti/Artists Rights Society (ARS),
New York/SIAE, Rome; Alighiero Boetti. Senza titolo (nero su bianco, bianco su nero) Untitled (black on white, white on black) (detail). 1989. Embroidery. Courtesy Galleria Alessandra Bonomo.
© 2012 Estate of Alighiero Boetti/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome; Berthold Loånffler. Kunstschau Wien (detail). 1908. Lithograph. Gift of The Lauder Foundation,
Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund. © 2012 Berthold Loånffler; Tauba Auerbach. Alexander Melville Bell's Visible Speech (vowels) (detail). 2006. Gouache, ink, and pencil on
paper. Collection Alexandra Bowes and Stephen Williamson. © 2012 Tauba Auerbach. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; Taryn Simon. Excerpt from Chapter XVII, A Living
Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I–XVIII (detail). 2011. Pigmented inkjet prints. Courtesy the artist. © 2012 Taryn Simon; James Rosenquist. F–111 (detail). 1964–65. Oil on canvas with aluminum, 23 sections.
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; Os Últimos Cangaceiros
(The Last Cangaceiros). 2011. Brazil. Directed by Wolney Oliveira; Pictured: Moreno and Durvinha. Image courtesy of Leonardo Lara; Art Lab App Photo by Jason Brownrigg;
Rendering of HWKN's Wendy, winning design of Young Architects Program (YAP) 2012. Image courtesy of HWKN; Member Previews image: Helen + Hard AS.
Siv Helene Stangeland and Reinhard Kropf. Geopark, Stavanger, Norway. 2011. Photograph by Emile Ashley. Courtesy of the Architects;
Richard Serra. Delineator. 1974–75. Hot rolled steel, two plates. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase © 2012 Richard Serra / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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