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December 15, 2010 | Events & Programs, Film

Talking about Film

Posted by Nathan Sensel, MoMA School Visits Educator

Film poster for Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids

When you hear teens open a question with “I want to know, ’cause I want to be a director,” you understand why you’re doing what you’re doing—why you choose to stay at work late on Friday evenings, why you spend your time off screening films, why you pour over the DVD extras to learn as much as you can about a film’s context. For years now, artist and educator Alejandro Duran and Anne Morra, an associate curator in MoMA’s Department of Film, have been doing just that to guide young artists in the dissection and interpretation of some of the world’s great films. Read more

Five for Friday: Fragmented Figures

Posted by Nathan Sensel, MoMA School Visits Educator

Five for Friday, written by a variety of MoMA staff members, is our attempt to spotlight some of the compelling, charming, and downright curious works in the Museum’s rich collection.

Don’t want to get squished in the crowds at MoMA while trying to sketch from your favorite work? Feeling like you need some inspiration to get you back into drawing? Then this Five for Friday is for you. Read more

Lady Gaga Did Not Attend This Opening

Posted by Nathan Sensel, MoMA School Visits Educator, Marit Dewhurst, Director of Art Education, City College of New York

Photo by Brenda Zamora

You probably didn’t hear about the huge exhibition opening last week at MoMA—it didn’t make the front page of The New York Times Arts or Style sections; no one was interviewed on NPR about it; no pictures of the artists appeared on Art Fag City. And yet it was definitely the place to be if you are interested in mingling with the freshest faces in contemporary art. Read more

Getting Attention: A Young Filmmaker’s Beginnings at MoMA

Posted by Nathan Sensel, MoMA School Visits Educator, Anne Morra, Associate Curator, Department of Film

For the past ten years, high school students have been attending free Friday night film screenings at MoMA, spending some time after each film talking with curators, educators, and filmmakers. Recently we’ve experimented with different types of events for teens, such as artists’ talks, gallery activities, and art-making workshops, which means there’s something happening for young artists almost every Friday from October through May. Greeting visitors as they arrive for these events is an impeccably dressed young filmmaker named Michael Brawley, who has been an essential part of the program—first as an attendee, then as a volunteer—for years. We asked Michael his opinion about film, the Oscars, MoMA’s Teen Programs, and more.