Name: Interpreting MoMA: Vital Signs
Start: 2025-01-16T17:00
End: 2025-01-16T19:30
Location: Education Center

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Held on Thu, Jan 16, 5:00–7:30 p.m.

Reception starts at 5:00 p.m.
Gallery Tour from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.

Education Center, Floor 1

The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building

ASL interpreted

Visitors who are Deaf or hard of hearing

Barbara Hammer. Still from Sync Touch. 1981. 16mm film transferred to video (color, sound), 10:07 min. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase. © The Estate of Barbara Hammer and Company Gallery, New York. Digital image courtesy the Barbara Hammer Collection at the Academy Film ArchiveImage description: A film still of a hand with an open palm, fingers and thumb splayed, against a dark inky blue background. An eye is painted in the middle of the palm with a white outline and small black circle in the center surrounded by green. Pools of brown, yellow, blue, and purple paint are dotted around the palm. Each finger is painted with one strip of color from the base to the tip, with dots of paint of a contrasting color layered on top.

Please join us for MoMA’s bimonthly program welcoming individuals who are Deaf or hard of hearing to participate in an ASL-interpreted private gallery talk focusing on one of our exhibitions, along with a wine and snack reception.

In January we will explore the exhibition Vital Signs: Artists and the Body with curator Lanka Tattersall. The international, cross-generational group of artists in this exhibition use depictions of the body to address the question of what it means to be an individual within society—and how socially sustained categories of gender, race, and identity are rooted in abstraction.

Registration opens on December 16, 2024, at 10:00 a.m.

Interpreting MoMA is offered free of charge. Space is limited and advance registration is required.

For more information or to register, please email [email protected] or call Access Programs at (212) 408-6447.

Image description: A film still of a hand with an open palm, fingers and thumb splayed, against a dark inky blue background. An eye is painted in the middle of the palm with a white outline and small black circle in the center surrounded by green. Pools of brown, yellow, blue, and purple paint are dotted around the palm. Each finger is painted with one strip of color from the base to the tip, with dots of paint of a contrasting color layered on top.

Accessibility

Wheelchair Accessible
The Cullman Education and Research Center entrance has a power-assist door.

Seating options include gallery stools and minimal gallery benches. Gallery stools, wheelchairs, and rollators are available by request at all Museum entrances, on a first-come first-served basis.

Accessible and all-gender restrooms are located in the Cullman Education Building. Accessible restrooms are also located near the tour galleries.

Service dogs welcome
Guide dogs and other trained service animals are always welcome.

Sign language interpretation available
American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided for this program.

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Live captioning (CART) and audio description are available for public programs upon request with two weeks’ advance notice. MoMA will make every effort to provide accommodation for requests made with less than two weeks’ notice. Please email [email protected] or call 212-408-6447 to make a request for these services.

For more information on accessibility at MoMA please visit moma.org/visit/accessibility. For accessibility questions or accommodation requests please email [email protected] or call 212-408-6447.

The Adobe Foundation is proud to support equity, learning, and creativity at MoMA.

Access and Community Programs are supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).

Major funding is provided by The Taft Foundation.

Additional support is provided by the Sarah K. de Coizart Article TENTH Perpetual Charitable Trust, the Allene Reuss Memorial Trust, the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Fund for Older Adults at MoMA in honor of Agnes Gund, the J.E. and Z.B. Butler Foundation, the Megara Foundation, The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc., The Elroy and Terry Krumholz Foundation, and the Annual Education Fund.

This event accompanies Vital Signs: Artists and the Body.
This event is part of Interpreting MoMA.
This event is part of Access Programs.

Licensing

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