Dear Friends:

I hope you'll start off the new year with a visit to MoMA. January is an especially opportune time, as many of our most popular exhibitions close this month, including de Kooning: A Retrospective (Jan 9); Thing/Thought: Fluxus Editions, 1962–1978 (Jan 16); and New Photography 2011 (Jan 16). I urge you not to miss them. Opening this month in the second-floor Media Gallery is 9 Scripts from a Nation at War, a 10-channel video installation recently acquired by MoMA that examines the effects of war on individual and collective subjectivity, specifically in the context of American military involvement in Iraq since 2003. I am also delighted to announce that on January 26 Antony and the Johnsons will present a MoMA-commissioned multimedia performance at Radio City Music Hall.

In the theaters, a luminous retrospective of Raj Kapoor, the father of "Bollywood" cinema, begins on January 6, and our ongoing collaboration with the Global Film Initiative, Global Lens, presents new films from Turkey, Albania, Colombia, Rwanda, and more, with many having their New York premieres. Our January Modern Mondays roster includes pioneering artists Ron English, Dan Graham, and Andrea Fraser, offering incredible opportunities to learn about contemporary art directly from the artists themselves.

Glenn D. Lowry
Director