The Café-Concert in Art and Song: The Civilians in Performance
December 11, 2007
7:30 p.m.

Toward the end of his brief but influential career, Georges Seurat turned to the Parisian café-concert for subject matter, creating a significant body of work that explored the singers, musicians, and audience of this intriguing nineteenth-century urban cultural spectacle. Using these drawings by Seurat as a springboard, The Civilians, a New York–based theater company, will bring together a selection of original songs rarely performed today with projected depictions of the café-concerts by Seurat's Impressionist predecessors, such as Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas, as well as those by Seurat and his contemporary Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Interspersed between these songs—providing texture and context—will be readings from contemporary literature offering evocative descriptions of these locales.

Founded in 2001 by Artistic Director Steven Cosson, The Civilians is an innovative theater company that produces original work from creative investigations of real life. The company has created four shows—Canard, Canard, Goose?, Gone Missing, The Ladies, and (I am) Nobody's Lunch—which have been performed in New York and at theaters nationally and internationally. The Obie- and Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award–winning company recently made its commercial Off-Broadway debut with Gone Missing at the Barrow Street Theatre; its run has been extended through January 2008. Two projects currently in development, Paris Commune, which loosely relates to their MoMA performance, and This Beautiful City, which explores the Evangelical Christian movement, will premiere in the coming year.

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Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
documenta 12: Exhibiting Education
December 6, 2007
12:30 p.m.

Lecturer Kaira Cabañas (PhD, Princeton University) is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and lecturer in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University.

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From the Specific to the General:
The Publications of Seth Siegelaub
November 26, 2007
6:30 p.m.

Beginning in the mid-1960s, former gallerist and publisher Seth Siegelaub supported the work of many artists, including Robert Barry and Lawrence Weiner. Exhibitions explored conceptual art, and books provided a new forum for artistic innovation outside of the museum or gallery. Alexander Alberro, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Florida, and Christophe Cherix, Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art, join Siegelaub, Barry, and Weiner in a roundtable discussion about their collaborations.

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Reconsidering Feminism: A Year in Review
November 20, 2007
6:00 p.m.

Over the last year, a series of exhibitions and cultural initiatives in New York and elsewhere have sought to reconsider the feminist legacy in contemporary art and the new directions it has inspired in the work of emerging artists and collectives. This roundtable discussion with artists, critics, and historians will include a critical review and analysis of such events. It will also include an attempt to envision the steps to follow in the collective efforts to write recent feminist art history and implement the lessons learned from these initiatives. Participants include Janine Antoni, artist; Aruna D'Souza, Assistant Professor of Art History and Women's Studies, Binghamton University; Sharon Hayes, artist; and Molly Nesbit, Professor of Art History, Vassar College, contributing editor, Artforum, and (with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rirkrit Tiravanija) organizer of the ongoing project Utopia Stations. Moderated by Connie Butler, The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art.

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Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
From Space to Environment: The Origins and Development of Japanese Kankyo
November 19, 2007
12:30 p.m.

Lecturer Midori Yoshimoto (PhD, Rutgers University) is assistant professor of art history and gallery director at New Jersey City University.

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Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
An Expanding Universe: The Work of Anselm Kiefer
November 15, 2007
12:30 p.m.

Lecturer Galia Fischer (PhD candidate, The Graduate Center, City University of New York) is completing her dissertation on the French artist Jean Fautrier.

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Artists Speak: Conversations on Contemporary Art
with Glenn D. Lowry
The Old Becomes New: Urban Revitalization in New York
November 1, 2007
12:30 p.m.

From the Atlantic Yards to Red Hook in Brooklyn, from the High Line and Fresh Kills lifescape to the new Second Avenue subway, New York City is re-inventing itself through public projects and parks, greater accessibility and new technologies. James Corner of field operations and Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio of Diller Scofidio + Renfro address issues surrounding urban transformation.

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Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
Georges Seurat: The Drawings
November 1, 2007
12:30 p.m.

Lecturer Tricia Paik (PhD candidate, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University) is a curatorial assistant in the Department of Drawings at MoMA.

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Women in Modernism: Making Places in Architecture
October 25, 2007
6:30 p.m.

This program explores the role that architectural arbiters have had and continue to have in shaping the history and defining the legacy of modern architecture in the United States. Through a lecture and discussion, scholars, curators, and architects address the process of selection and the values that they employ each time they design a course or exhibition, or publish a book or an article. Participants include Sarah Herda, Director, The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago; Toshiko Mori, architect and Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture and Chair of the Department of Architecture, Harvard University; Karen Stein, former Editorial Director, Phaidon Press; and Gwendolyn Wright, architectural historian and Professor of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University. Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, moderates the discussion. The event is a collaboration between The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation and The Museum of Modern Art. Funded in part by a grant from the Rockfeller Brothers Fund.

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Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
A Visit to Venice: Think with the Senses/Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense
October 25, 2007
12:30 p.m.

Lecturer Anna Mecugni (PhD candidate, The Graduate Center, City University of New York) was on the curatorial team assisting Robert Storr, Director of the 2007 Venice Biennale.

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Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Roni Horn
October 19, 2007
6:30 p.m.

Roni Horn produces sculpture, photography, drawings, essays, and books. She engages the senses of the viewer, while also investigating issues of identity and difference and the relationship between humans and nature. By using different mediums and setting her work in specific environments, Horn explores the dichotomy between the moment of visual perception and the power of memory. Horn received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Yale University.

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Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
Malevich and Tatlin: The Creative Dialogue of the Leaders of the Russian Avant-Garde
October 18, 2007
12:30 p.m.

Lecturer Masha Chlenova (PhD candidate, Columbia University) is writing her dissertation on the fate of the Russian avant-garde in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

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Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Ron Gilad
October 12, 2007
6:30 p.m.

Ron Gilad co-founded Designfenzider in 2001. Selected by Forbes as one of 2007's ten tastemakers in industrial design, Gilad creates hybrid objects that straddle the line between abstraction and function. His work—from candlesticks made with wine glasses to chandeliers constructed from task lamps—is simultaneously elegant and witty. Gilad attended the Industrial Design Department at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem.

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Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
Popular Favorites and Critical Disdain: From Pavel Tchelitchew's Hide-and-Seek to Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World
October 4, 2007
12:30 p.m.

Lecturer Richard Turnbull (Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University) is assistant professor and chair of art history at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

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Artists Speak: Conversations on Contemporary Art
with Glenn D. Lowry
Art/Nature
October 2, 2007
6:30 p.m.

Inspired by the most recent pressing ecological concerns, this program aims to provide diverse perspectives on the changing relationships between modern and contemporary art and the environment. Artists Mary Miss and Roxy Paine discuss subjects such as the nature of their materials and how they engage with their physical surroundings.

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Vanguard Lost and Found: Soviet Modernist Architecture between Peril and Preservation

Symposium: Saturday, September 29, 2007

Following the seminal "Heritage at Risk" conference held in Moscow in April 2006, this symposium addresses pressing issues in the preservation of the modernist legacy of the most significant edifices built by radical Soviet architects in the 1920s and 1930s. Through two keynote addresses, case studies, and a roundtable discussion, Russian, European, and American architects, historians, and policymakers explore the current situation and eventual destiny of Soviet avant-garde architecture, which is increasingly threatened by neglect and speculative development.

This event is held in conjunction with the exhibition Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 1922—32 Photographs by Richard Pare.

The symposium is made possible by the World Monuments Fund - Modernism at Risk Program sponsored by Knoll, Inc., Julie L. Rasmussen, Trust for Mutual Understanding, and Joseph H. and Florence A. Roblee.

Welcome
Barry Bergdoll, Chief Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art
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Case Studies

Introduction
Natalia Dushkina, Professor, Moscow Architecture Institute, ICOMOS 20th Century Committee
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"Construction Technologies of the Avant-Garde: The Case of Barshch's and Siniavski's Planetarium"
Anke Zalivako, architect and historian, Technische Universität, Berlin
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"The Troubled Destiny of Le Corbusier's Centrosoyuz Building"
Jean-Louis Cohen, Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
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"The Narkomfin House: History and Restoration Project"
Alexei Ginzburg, architect, Moscow
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"Konstantin Melnikov: Conjunctive Reconstruction"
Yuri Avvakumov, artist and architect, Moscow
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Senator Sergei Gordeev, Founder and President, Russian Avantgarde Foundation
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Discussion moderated by Natalia Dushkina
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Afternoon Introduction
Barry Bergdoll and Jean-Louis Cohen
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"Inhabiting the Melnikov House"
Katia Melnikova
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"The Industrial Architecture of the Leningrad Vanguard: The Fate of Heritage"
Margarita Shtiglits, architect and preservationist, St. Petersburg
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"The Leningrad Vanguard and Its Destiny"
Boris Kirikov, architect, preservationist, St. Petersburg Committee for the Protection of Monuments
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Roundtable

Introduction by Barry Bergdoll
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Clementine Cecil, journalist, London; Founder, Moscow Architectural Preservation Society
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David Sarkisian, Director, Shchusev Museum of Architecture, Moscow
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Senator Sergei Gordeev, Founder and President, Russian Avantgarde Foundation
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Respondents:
Introduction by Barry Bergdoll
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Maristella Casciato, architect, Professor, University of Bologna, President of Docomomo International
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John H. Stubbs, Vice President, Field Projects, World Monuments Fund, New York
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Richard Pare, artist
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Discussion moderated by Barry Bergdoll
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Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
Present Tense: Photographs by JoAnn Verburg
September 27, 2007
12:30 p.m.

Lecturer Susan Kismaric is curator in the Department of Photography at MoMA and organizer of the exhibition. This event is held in conjunction with the exhibition Present Tense: Photographs by JoAnn Verburg.

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Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Kerry James Marshall
September 14, 2007
6:30 p.m.

Kerry James Marshall's mixed media works address the perspectives of African Americans through references to popular culture, history, and the civil rights movement. His work draws inspiration from art-historical sources from the Renaissance to black folk art. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Marshall has a BFA and an honorary Doctorate from the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles. He has exhibited in the United States, and at international exhibitions such as Documenta X. In 1997 Marshall was awarded a MacArthur Foundation grant. The program is moderated by Romi Crawford, Curator and Director of Education and Public Programs, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and introduced by Wendy Woon, The Edward John Noble Foundation Deputy Director for Education, The Museum of Modern Art.

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A Conversation between Lynne Cooke and Richard Serra
September 6, 2007
6:00 p.m.

Co-curator Lynne Cooke and Richard Serra discuss the artist's work and the exhibition Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years.

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Painting Process/Process Painting
August 8, 2007
6:30 p.m.

Chuck Close and Carroll Dunham, artists featured in the exhibition What Is Painting? Contemporary Art from the Collection, discuss their work. The conversation is moderated by Anne Umland, Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, and organizer of the exhibition.

This event is held in conjunction with the exhibition What Is Painting? Contemporary Art from the Collection.

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New York—The Creative Catalyst
July 12, 2007
6:00 p.m.

Through a series of individual presentations and a moderated discussion, artists and scholars explore the various ways in which New York has been a source of adventure, inspiration, and creativity. Participants include Douglas Crimp, art critic and professor of art history and visual and cultural studies, University of Rochester; Peter Eisenman, founder and principal, Eisenman Architects, New York; Meredith Monk, artist; and others. Moderated by David Joselit, professor and chair, history of art department, Yale University.

This event is held in conjunction with the exhibition Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years.

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1907/2007: Poets on Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
May 23, 2007
6:30 p.m.

In conjunction with the one hundredth anniversary of Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, May's installment of Modern Poets reflects upon Picasso's masterpiece, other works in the Museum's collection made in 1907, and the year 1907 itself. Readings include works written by Picasso's friends and acquaintances—such as Guillaume Apollinaire, André Salmon, and Gertrude Stein—who saw and responded to Les Demoiselles, as well as other literature from this cultural and artistic milieu. Following in the tradition of the MoMA Members Magazine, which commissioned poets to respond to works in the collection and then published the results, the Museum also offers contemporary poets the opportunity to write new poetry about art from all curatorial departments made one hundred years ago. Participants include Mary Jo Bang, poet and Associate Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program, Washington University, St. Louis; Mary Ann Caws, author, translator and Distinguished Professor of English, French, Comparative Literature, and Film Studies, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York; Pierre Joris, poet, translator, essayist, and Professor of Poetry and Poetics, State University of New York, Albany; and Jerome Rothenberg poet and professor of visual arts and literature, University of California, San Diego.

This event is held in conjunction with the exhibition Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon at 100.

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Playing Games, Reinventing Traditions
May 9, 2007
6:30 p.m.

Like the Venezuelan Armando Reverón, whose paintings and life-sized dolls were recently on view at the Museum, many contemporary artists invent games, toys, and characters. In this program, Venezuelan-born Arturo Herrera, who uses cartoon and fairy tale images, discusses with Luis Pérez-Oramas, The Estrellita Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art at MoMA, and Glenn D. Lowry how his work engages traditions in his country of origin and offers new understandings of contemporary art.

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The Public Life of Drawing
April 25, 2007
6:30 p.m.

Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi has expanded the medium of drawing to include both installation and performance. In the last decade, Perjovschi has conceived his political drawings spontaneously within museum spaces, allowing global events to inform the final result. Following an introduction by Roxana Marcoci, curator of Projects 85: Dan Perjovschi, the artist discusses his work.

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Artists Speak: Conversations on Contemporary Art
with Glenn D. Lowry
Spotlight: Artists Set the Stage
April 17, 2007
6:30 p.m.

Artists break boundaries, working in a variety of mediums and blurring the lines between them. Since the early twentieth century, painters, sculptors, and filmmakers have gone beyond traditional visual art forms and taken their artistic process to the stage, collaborating as theater and opera directors and set designers. Through presentations and a conversation moderated by MoMA director Glenn D. Lowry, performance artist Laurie Anderson and William Kentridge—director and scene designer for BAM's spring production of Mozart's The Magic Flute—discuss how they bring their creative process to performance.

Note: Laurie Anderson's comments are not included in the recording.

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The Museum of Modern Art's Third Annual Graduate Symposium
Keynote address, Friday, April 13 | Symposium, Saturday, April 14
The Revolution Will Not Be Curated: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Art and Politics

This symposium seeks to investigate the historical and contemporary artists' attempts to deploy art as a means of political force and to critically engage with radically changing conditions of modern and contemporary life. This tradition stretches across media and time, from the visual strategies of the historical avant-garde in the early twentieth century to more recent artistic work emerging in opposition to globalism, and the ensuing political, economic, and military domination of the new world's super-powers. Selected from an international pool of applicants, six students presented their papers at the symposium.

Friday, April 13, 2007

Keynote address
Thomas Keenan, Director, Human Rights Project; Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Bard College
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Symposium: Saturday, April 14, 2007

Introduction
David Little, Director, Adult and Academic Programs, The Museum of Modern Art

"Lipstick Ascending: Claes Oldenburg, Pop Art, and the Cultural Revolution"
Tom Williams, Stony Brook University
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"Hemispheric Tendencies: The Display of Latin American Abstract and Perceptual Art at the Center for Inter-American Relations (1967-1977)"
Taína B. Caragol, The Graduate Center, CUNY
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"All Systems Go: Recovering Hans Haacke's Systems Art"
Luke Skrebowski, Middlesex University, England
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Discussion
Moderated by Branden Joseph, Associate Professor, Modern and Contemporary American and European Art, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
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"Jean-Luc Godard's Militant Filmmaking between Breton's Objective Engagement and Sartre's Engaged Activism (1967-1974)"
Irmgard Emmelhainz, University of Toronto
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"An Adult Is Being Beaten: Infantility, Development, and Power in Shuji Terayama's Emperor Tomato Ketchup"
Taro E.F. Nettleton, University of Rochester
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"Mapping Alternatives: The Center for Land Use Interpretation and the Politics of Neutrality"
Emily Liebert, Columbia University
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Discussion
Moderated by Claire Bishop, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Warwick University
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Reading Reverón, Painting Poetry
April 9, 2007
6:30 p.m.

The Venezuelan Armando Reverón (1889–1954), a figurative and landscape painter who also created life-sized dolls later in his career, experimented with the sensations and effects of light, color, opacity, and shadow. In this Spanish reading with English translations, José Luis Blondet, poet and Administrator of Education Programs, Dia Art Foundation; José Falconi, Curator, Latino and Latin American Art Forum Program, and Associate Director, Cultural Agents Initiative, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University; Alejandro Merizalde, painter, translator, and Book Specialist, The Museum of Modern Art; Luis Pérez-Oramas, poet and The Estrellita Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, read works by Jorge Luis Borges, José Gorostiza, José Antonio Ramos Sucre, Ana Enriqueta Teran, and others. Mónica de la Torre and Laura Pérez provide the English translations. The evening reveals the relationship between the pictorial qualities of poetry and Reverón's poetic qualities of painting. This event is held in conjunction with the exhibition Armando Reverón.

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Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Sze Tsung Leong
March 30, 2007
6:30 p.m.

Sze Tsung Leong was born in Mexico City and now lives and works in New York. His photographs depict international urban landscapes and the creation and destruction of cities in China, while his paintings are drawn from historical photographs. Leong has received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University.

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Modern Poets
Writing in Time: Poets and Technology
March 28, 2007
6:00 p.m.

The exhibition Out of Time: A Contemporary View considers notions of temporality and reconstructions of time through memory, fantasy, dreams, and history in a variety of media. The increasing prevalence of technology, whether as an artist’s medium or as visual stimulation in mass culture, changes the way we experience, record, and perceive time. On the occasion of this exhibition, MoMA asked poets to explore how technology informs the language and rhythms of poetry. Caroline Bergvall, poet, and Co-Chair, Writing MFA, Milton Avery School for the Arts, Bard College; Greta Byrum, poet and sound artist; Robert Fitterman, poet; Kenneth Goldsmith, poet, Professor, Creative Writing Program, The University of Pennsylvania, and founding editor of ubuweb.com read works of their own and of others. This program is a collaboration between The Museum of Modern Art and ubuweb.com.

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Artists and Models
March 12, 2007
6:00 p.m.

For the exhibition Projects 84, Josiah McElheny creates a sculptural installation of crystalline glass, metal, and colored light that draws upon the visionary schemes of Paul Scheerbart, the Berlin poet and novelist, and Bruno Taut, the uncrowned leader of the circle of revolutionary architects that emerged in Berlin after World War I. McElheny’s model-scale landscape depicting two structures—an “Alpine Cathedral” and a “City-Crown”—is a critique of the utopian ideals embodied in twentieth-century modernism. This program, with McElheny and artist Chris Burden, focuses on the use of architecture in the sculptural model, through presentations and a discussion moderated by Joshua Siegel, organizer of the exhibition. Note: This recording only includes Joshua Siegel and Josiah McElheny's talks.

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Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Jeff Koons
March 9, 2007
6:30 p.m.

Jeff Koons uses unexpected models and everyday objects to create works of art. From his Hoover vacuum cleaners to his stainless steel Rabbit (1986), he challenges viewers’ perception and standards of “good taste,” addressing established hierarchies and aesthetic value systems. Koons, whose 1985 work Three Ball 50/50 Tank (Two Dr. J. Silver Series, Wilson Supershot) is included in Out of Time: A Contemporary View, has exhibited internationally and has received many awards and honors.

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Brown Bag Lecture: The Concrete and Neo-Concrete Movements in Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela
March 8, 2007
12:30 p.m.

This lecture is presented by Claudia Calirman (PhD, The Graduate Center, City University of New York), an adjunct professor at Parsons School of Design and a lecturer at MoMA and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

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Comic Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making
An Artists Panel
March 5, 2007
6:00 p.m.

In a panel discussion moderated by Roxana Marcoci, curator of the exhibition, artists Polly Apfelbaum, Inka Essenhigh, and Gary Simmons address the creative misalliance between abstraction and comic forms of representation in their work. The panel probes issues pertaining to humor in relation to a critical interpretation of war and global conflicts as well as gender and ethnic stereotyping. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Comic Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making.

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Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Swoon
March 2, 2007
6:30 p.m.

Culling materials and subjects from the streets, Swoon creates paper cutouts and installations that re-envision the experience of urban life. Inspired by historical sources ranging from German Expressionist woodblock prints to Indonesian shadow puppets, this New York–based artist has covered the city streets with her work for over six years. She has exhibited most recently in P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center’s Greater New York 2005. In the summer of 2006, she participated in the “Miss Rockaway Armada” on the Mississippi River.

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Armando Reverón: Another Modernity?
February 28, 2007
6:00 p.m.

Scholars offer their perspectives on the artist's work, placing it in the greater context of art history, Latin American culture (Venezuela in particular), and European avant-garde movements. John Elderfield, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, and organizer of the exhibition, moderates the discussion. María Elena Huizi, Independent scholar, Caracas. Luis Pérez-Oramas, The Estrellita Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art, Department of Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art. Susan Stewart, Annan Professor of English, Princeton University; poet; and author of The Open Studio: Essays on Art and Aesthetics (2004). Held in conjunction with the exhibition Armando Reverón.

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Gallery Talks: The Artist Edition with Kota Ezawa
February 28, 2007
3:30 p.m.

In this new series, artists whose work has been exhibited at MoMA lead Gallery Talks.

Kota Ezawa describes his media works as "video archaeology." Often basing his art on archival news footage and movie clips, he provokes viewers to evaluate the accuracy of their own memories of events in comparison to his modified version. Ezawa studied at Düsseldorf 's Kunstakademie under Nam June Paik and at the San Francisco Art Institute.

In this presentation Ezawa discusses paintings by Cézanne's The Bather and Château Noir, Marcel Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel, Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist Composition: White on White, Brancusi's Fish and Bird in Space, Giacometti's City Square and Dog, Martin Creed's Work No. 227, The Lights Going On And Off, and his own video, The Simpson Verdict.

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Pictured above: Kota Ezawa. The Simpson Verdict. 2002. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Fund for the Twenty-First Century. © 2002 Kota Ezawa, courtesy Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco

Jeff Wall Talks about His Work
February 26, 2007
6:00 p.m.

Jeff Wall discusses his work in conjunction with the retrospective that traces his photography from the late 1970s to the present.

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Conversations with Contemporary Artists: OBRA Architects
February 23, 2007
6:30 p.m.

New York-based architecture firm OBRA Architects, founded by Pablo Castro and Jennifer Lee in 2000, has exhibited internationally and was named one of the 2005 Emerging Voices by the Architectural League of New York. The firm received two American Architecture Awards from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and won the 2006 MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program competition with BEATFUSE!, a courtyard installation of interconnecting curved shells and wooden tidal pools.

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Gallery Talks: The Artist Edition with Jon Kessler
January 31, 2007
3:30 p.m.

In this new series, artists whose work has been exhibited at MoMA lead Gallery Talks.

While his early wall-mounted works read like animated paintings, Jon Kessler’s recent floor sculptures combine jerry-rigged mechanisms with surveillance cameras to create videos in real time. Kessler is an associate professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and has exhibited internationally, including a 1994 retrospective in Europe and a major exhibition of his mechanical video sculptures at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in 2005.

NOTE: The recording only contains the introduction and part of the discussion of The Palace at 4 A.M.

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The Feminist Future: Theory and Practice in the Visual Arts
Friday–Saturday, January 26–27, 2007
9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. both days

This symposium addresses critical questions surrounding the relationship between art and gender, bringing together international leaders in contemporary art, art history, and related disciplines. After the activism of the 1960s and ’70s, and the revisionist critiques of the 1980s and ’90s, this symposium will examine ways in which gender is currently addressed by artists, museums, and the academy, and its future role in art practice and scholarship. View the full symposium schedule.

Audio archives of the symposium are available on Art Radio WPS1.org.

Friday, January 26, 2007

Welcome and opening remarks
Deborah Wye, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Chief Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art
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Keynote Address
Lucy R. Lippard, writer and activist
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Panel: Activism/Race/Geopolitics

Coco Fusco, artist and Associate Professor, Columbia University School of the Art
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Guerrilla Girls Frida Kahlo and Kathe Kollwitz, two founding members of the feminist activist group
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Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University
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Richard Meyer, Katherine Stein Sachs CW'69 and Keith L. Sachs W'67 Visiting Professor, Department of History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
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Panel Discussion, moderated by David Little, Director of Adult and Academic Programs, The Museum of Modern Art
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Panel: Body/Sexuality/Identity

Marina Abramovic, artist
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Beatriz Colomina, Professor of Architecture and Director of the Program in Media and Modernity, Princeton University
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Geeta Kapur, critic and curator, New Delhi
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Martha Rosler, artist
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Panel Discussion, moderated by Sally Berger, Assistant Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art
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Response
Catherine de Zegher, curator and art historian, New York/Kortrijk, Belgium
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Saturday, January 27, 2007

Welcome and opening remarks

Deborah Wye, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Chief Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art

Keynote Address
Anne M. Wagner, Professor of Modern Art, Department of History of Art, University of California, Berkeley
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Panel: Writing the History of Feminism

Ute Meta Bauer, Associate Professor and Director of the Visual Arts Program, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Connie Butler, The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art
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David Joselit, Professor and Chair, Department of History of Art, Yale University
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Griselda Pollock, Professor of the Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of Centre for Cultural Analysis, History, and Theory, University of Leeds
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Panel Discussion, moderated by Alexandra Schwartz, Project Curatorial Assistant, The Museum of Modern Art
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Panel: Institutionalization of Feminism

Wangechi Mutu, artist
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Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator of Exhibitions, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University
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Ingrid Sischy, Editor-in-Chief, Interview
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Panel Discussion, moderated by Anne Umland, Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art
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Response
Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
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Manet and the Execution of Maximilian: Representing Politics and the Spectacle of War
January 18, 2007
6:00 p.m.

Captivated by the politics of colonialism and war, Edouard Manet depicted the execution of the Emperor Maximilian in a series of paintings and lithographs from 1867 to 1869. In this panel discussion, scholars and artists discuss the legacy of Manet’s representation of politics and war through painting and historical documentation. Panelists include artists Sue Coe, Gilles Peress, Yinka Shonibare, and Krzysztof Wodiczko; Philip Gourevitch, editor, The Paris Review and author of We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda (1998); and moderated by Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Associate Professor, European Art since 1700, University of California, Berkeley. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Manet and the Execution of Maximillian.

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