Fall is in full swing this week as we kick off a new film series, restart our seasonal education programs, and open a major new exhibition. Check it out:
Silence of the Sea. 1949. France. Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. Courtesy Gaumont
• As an annual presentation from the French film studio Gaumont’s archives, join us on Monday, September 28, for a screening Jean-Pierre Melville’s first feature, Silence de la mer (Silence of the Sea), adapted from the famed French Resistance novella.
• MoMA’s Department of Film begins a new series of daytime screenings, drawn from MoMA’s collection, devoted to actors who developed their screen personalities to become vehicles of meaning in their movies. The inaugural program, Acteurism: The Emergence of Ann Sheridan, 1937–1943, kicks off on Wednesday, October 1, with William Keighley’s Torrid Zone (1940), featuring Sheridan as a tough-talking American chanteuse.
• On Thursday, October 2, head to MoMA PS1 for Retrospective, the inaugural U.S. museum survey of French artist and choreographer Xavier Le Roy.
Robert Gober. Untitled. 1992. Paper, twine, metal, light bulbs, cast plaster with casein and silkscreen ink, stainless steel, painted cast bronze and water, plywood, forged iron, plaster, latex paint and lights, photolithography on archival (Mohawk Superfine) paper, twine, hand-painted forest mural
511 3/4 × 363 3/16 × 177 3/16″ (1300 × 922.5 × 450.1 cm). Glenstone. Photo: Russell Kaye, courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery. © 2014 Robert Gober• Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor, the first large-scale survey in the United States of artist Robert Gober’s work, opens on Saturday, October 4, filling the second-floor Contemporary Galleries with about 130 works, from the artist’s signature sculptures of everyday objects like sinks and beds to room-sized installations that are evocative and deeply personal.
• Our fall Family Programs season begins this weekend with Tours for Fours exploring Modern Materials and A Closer Look for Kids asking, What’s the Story? Narrative in Art. Space is limited for these free gallery tours for children, so be sure to arrive early to secure a spot.
