Name: Interpreting MoMA: Taking Back Our Space
Start: 2026-09-22T17:00
End: 2026-09-22T19:30
Location: Education Center

Tue, Sep 22, 5:00–7:30 p.m.

Education Center, Mezzanine

The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building

Free, registration or RSVP required

Visitors who are Deaf or hard of hearing

A collage artwork on cream paper with a large wash of black inky paint as the background for layered elements. Text fragments, a small black-and-white photograph of a woman holding a revolver, and a cutout photograph of a woman wearing a shiny black bodysuit bent in a diving position are taped on top. Paulina Olowska. Body Movement Alphabet Studies. 2007. Cut-and-taped printed paper, printed plastic sheet, and paint on paper, sheet 16 7/16 × 22 11/16" (41.7 × 57.6 cm), frame 18 1/4 × 24 1/2" (46.3 × 62.2 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the artist

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 MoMA’s exhibitions, along with a wine and snack reception.

In September we will explore the exhibition Taking Back Our Space: Photographic Perspectives with the curatorial team. The exhibition brings artist Marianne Wex’s watershed feminist photography project into dialogue with contemporary artists Nona Faustine, Martine Gutierrez, K8 Hardy, Yuki Kihara, Joiri Minaya, Paulina Olowska, and Wendy Red Star. These practitioners reappraise the relationship of bodies to public space from Black, queer, and 21st-century feminist perspectives. In this context, the notion of “taking back space” resonates as a reclamation of physical territory, historical narratives, and the ability to represent oneself.

Interpreting MoMA is offered free of charge. Space is limited and advance registration is required. Registration opens on August 25 at 10:00 a.m.

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

Image description: A collage artwork on cream paper with a large wash of black ink as the background for layered elements. Text fragments, a small-black and-white photograph of a woman holding a revolver, and a cutout photograph of a woman wearing a shiny black bodysuit bent in a diving position are taped on top of the ink.

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.

Major funding is provided by The Taft Foundation.

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

This event accompanies Taking Back Our Space: Photographic Perspectives.
This event is part of Interpreting MoMA.

Licensing

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