The Maximal Sixties: Pop, Op, and Figuration
January 18–April 29, 1997

Rarely seen drawings whose optical effects, graphic punch, and challenging subject matter represent the flip side of the period's prevalent abstraction.

Projects: Bul Lee / Chie Matsue
January 23–March 25, 1997

An exhibition pairing installations by Chie Matsui (Osaka) and Bul Lee (Seoul), who explore Asian cultural conventions, especially the role of women.

Willem de Kooning: The Late Paintings, The 1980s
January 26–April 29, 1997

Some forty paintings made during de Kooning's final creative years, which demonstrate the artist's striking range, from spare to animated to richly hued works.

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Young and Restless
January 26–April 29, 1997

A survey of performance-based videos featuring twenty-one videotapes by eighteen New York women artists.

Masterworks from the Florene May Schoenborn Bequest
February 6–March 11, 1997

Works by Giacometti, Matisse, Picasso, and other modern masters, from the collection of a longtime MoMA benefactor.

A Singlar Vision: Prints from Landfall Press
February 6–May 6, 1997

A selection of works celebrating the 25th anniversary of a leading publisher of contemporary prints.

Fantastic Prints
February 6–May 6, 1997

Prints from the Museum's collection that focus on offbeat or grotesque imagery based on dreams, fantasies, or impulses of the irrational.

American Photography 1890-1965 from the Collection
February 20-October 8, 1997

183 outstanding works by more than 100 photographers, surveying three quarters of a century of modern American photography.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo
February 20–May 18, 1997

175 pictures, including rare vintage work, by Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1902-2002), one of the most important photographers of the 20th century.

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American Photography: Recent Acquisitions
February 20–April 15, 1997

Recently acquired photographic works by contemporary American artists including Robert Adams, Ana Mendieta, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, and Joel Sternfeld.

The Photomontages of Hannah Höch
February 27–May 20, 1997

The first in-depth examination in the United States of German artist Hannah Höch, a pioneer in the development of photomontage.

Projects: Rirkrit Tiravanija
April 1–June 3, 1997

A child-sized model of an International Style glass pavilion, erected in The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden.

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Projects: Architecture as Metaphor
April 10–June 3, 1997

Works by contemporary artists which range from direct treatments of architecture to highly personal reflections that transcend architecture.

Seoungho Cho: "...in the midst of..."
April 11–June 8, 1997

The premiere of a new video installation by the Korean artist.

From the Grace M. Mayer Collection
April 24–July 15, 1997

A selection of outstanding photographs and Toulouse-Lautrec prints from the bequest of a former MoMA curator.

Brought to Light: Black Cinema, 1921-1959
May 3–October 7, 1997

42 posters and 44 lobby cards, pressbooks, and heralds that focus on early African-American independent cinema.

Photographs from S-21: 1975-1979
May 15–September 30, 1997

Approximately twenty black-and-white photographs from S-21 (now the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide), a secret Khmer Rouge prison in Cambodia.

More than One: Twentieth-Century Print Portfolios
May 16–September 2, 1997

An exhibition focusing on the pervasiveness of the portfolio format in twentieth-century art.

Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life
May 25–August 26, 1997

An examination of the radical evolution in the treatment of space, color, form, composition, and expression in this genre during the 20th century.

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Stenberg Brothers: Constructing a Revolution in Soviet Design
June 10–September 2, 1997

A survey of the work of Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg, two prominent designers of the Russian avant-garde.

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The Museum of Modern Art
New York, New York
June 10–September 2, 1997

Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam, Holland
May 16–July 26, 1998

Kulturhuset
Stockholm, Sweden
January 30–April 11, 1999

Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center
Los Angeles, California
May 31–August 21, 1999

Paris-The 1890s
June 19–September 2, 1997

Colorful, innovative works by Bonnard, Toulouse-Lautrec, Vuillard, and others, created for both the private and public realms.

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Recent Acquisitions in Modern Drawing
June 5-September 9, 1997

The first of two exhibitions of the newest works in the Department of Drawings' collection.

Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills

Sherman's landmark series of 69 black-and-white photographs (1977–80), acquired in its entirety by the Museum in 1995.

The Museum of Modern Art
New York, New York
June 26–September 2, 1997

Hasselblad Center, Konstmuseer, Götaplatsen
Göteborg, Sweden
March 4-April 24, 2000

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Projects: John Currin, Elizabeth Peyton, Luc Tuymans
June 26–September 9, 1997

Figurative paintings by three contemporary artists.

A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Drawing
September 8, 1997–January 20, 1998

The second of two exhibitions featuring the most recent works to enter the Museum's drawing collection.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
January 27–March 20, 1977

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the genius of the New German Cinema, made forty-three remarkable film and television works between 1966 and his death in 1982 at age thirty-seven. The full depth and scope of this astonishing career—unparalleled in postwar world cinema—was on display for the first time in the United States beginning January 23, 1997, when The Museum of Modern Art presented Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a complete retrospective of the director's work.

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Agnès Varda was the official photographer for the Théâtre National Populaire before she was encouraged by her Left Bank colleagues, at age twenty-six, to make her first feature, La pointe courte (1954). A critical success and a financial failure, many consider La pointe courte to be the birth of the French New Wave. Between La pointe courte and her next feature six years later, Cleo from 5 to 7 (1960) Varda completed three short charming documentaries about places in France that held special meaning for her.

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MThe Digital Video Wall
Late 1997–Early 1988

The Museum of Modern Art has been at the forefront of identifying the art of our time. The fourth program organized by the Museum's curators for the Digital Video Wall features subjective views by ten of video's pioneers.

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MFrom Henri Toulouse-Lautrec to Andy Warhol: Exploring Techniques
September 18, 1997–February 8, 1998

Approximately seventy-five prints from the Museum's collection that demonstrate techniques and processes explored by artists from the 1890s through the 1960s.

New Concepts in Printmaking 1: Peter Halley
September 18, 1997–February 8, 1998

Painter Peter Halley's printed wallpaper and flowcharts and examples of his more traditionally created works.

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Projects: Franz West
September 25–November 11, 1997

Austrian artist Franz West's integrated ensemble of drawings, collages, sculpture, and sculptural furniture.

On The Edge: Contemporary Art from the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Collection
September 30, 1997–January 20, 1998

Paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, and installations from a recently donated collection of contemporary art.

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Egon Schiele: The Leopold Collection, Vienna
October 12, 1997–January 4, 1998

Oils, gouaches, watercolors, and drawings produced by the idiosyncratic Austrian Expressionist from 1905 to 1918.

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Achille Castiglioni: Design!
October 16, 1997–January 6, 1998

A retrospective of the Italian architect and industrial designer, including reconstructions of interiors from 1957, 1965, and 1984.

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New Photography 13
October 24, 1997–January 13, 1998

Photographs by Rineke Dijkstra, An-My Lê, Victor Muniz, and Kunié Sugiura.

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Projects: Steve McQueen
November 25, 1997–February 10, 1998

Steve McQueen's new film/video work Deadpan (1997), created for this Projects exhibition, shot from dramatic angles, with closeups and bird's-eye views, whose resulting rhythm of monochromatic shapes distances the viewer from the narrative of the event.

The Hubley Studio: A Home for Animation
December 19, 1997–February 1, 1998

One hundred and fifty examples of concept art, animation drawings, storyboards, background paintings, and layouts in celebration of the innovative style and social consciousness of the animated films of John and Faith Hubley.

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