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September 15, 2014  |  This Week at MoMA
This Week at MoMA: September 15–22

Posted by Carolyn Kelly, Coordinating Editor, Marketing and Communications

This week is all about our special exhibition Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness. If you haven’t seen it yet, now is a great time to visit and join us for some related events, along with this week’s other programming highlights:

Christopher Williams. Cutaway model Zeiss Distagon T* 2.8/15 ZM/Focal length: 15mm. Aperture range: 2.8–22. No./of elements/groups: 11/9/Focusing range: 0.3 m–infinity. Image ratio at close range: 1:18/Coverage at close range: 43 cm × 65 cm. Angular field, diag./horiz./vert.: 110/ 100/77"/Filter: M 72 × 0.75. Weight: 500 g. Length: 86 mm/Product no. black: 30 82016. Serial no.: 15555891./(Subject to change.)/Manufactured by Carl Zeiss AG, Camera Lens Division, Oberkochen, Germany Studio Rhein Verlag, Düsseldorf/January 18, 2013. 2013. Pigmented inkjet print, paper: 16 × 20" (40.6× 50.8 cm); framed: 30 1/2 × 33 3/8" (77.5 × 84.8 cm). Private collection. © Christopher Williams

Christopher Williams. Cutaway model Zeiss Distagon T* 2.8/15 ZM/Focal length: 15mm. Aperture range: 2.8–22. No./of elements/groups: 11/9/Focusing range: 0.3 m–infinity. Image ratio at close range: 1:18/Coverage at close range: 43 cm × 65 cm. Angular field, diag./horiz./vert.: 110/ 100/77″/Filter: M 72 × 0.75. Weight: 500 g. Length: 86 mm/Product no. black: 30 82016. Serial no.: 15555891./(Subject to change.)/Manufactured by Carl Zeiss AG, Camera Lens Division, Oberkochen, Germany Studio Rhein Verlag, Düsseldorf/January 18, 2013. 2013. Pigmented inkjet print, paper: 16 × 20″ (40.6× 50.8 cm); framed: 30 1/2 × 33 3/8″ (77.5 × 84.8 cm). Private collection. © Christopher Williams


• Today, September 15, we present a Modern Mondays evening with Christopher Williams, who will be joined by MoMA Stuart Comer, MoMA’s chief curator of Media and Performance Art, to discuss the artist’s longstanding engagement with cinema.

• The second part of a Carte Blanche screening series of films selected by Christopher Williams begins Wednesday, September 17, with a selection of films exploring the theme of “tenderness,” including Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof.

Installation view of Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (July 27–November 2, 2014). Photo by Jonathan Muzikar. © 2014 The Museum of Modern Art

Installation view of Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (July 27–November 2, 2014). Photo by Jonathan Muzikar. © 2014 The Museum of Modern Art

• Look closely with Vistas: Visual Essays of Christopher Williams—a free Gallery Session tour on Thursday, September 18, which begins with a short lecture on selected photographs in the exhibition, followed by participants creating their own “visual essays” on the works through brief writing, drawing, and speaking exercises.

• On Saturday, September 20, as part of The Great War: A Cinematic Legacy, Nicolas Polet, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at Flanders House, introduces a program of short films that includes recent works by Belgian filmmakers in commemoration of the centenary of WWI.

• Registration for fall on-site and online courses is now open. One new class to check out is Contemporary Art in Context, which will look closely at the special exhibitions Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness and Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor to examine how various artistic strategies can generate meanings that expand well beyond the object immediately at hand.

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