Hopefully you’re lucky enough to have Columbus Day off and have plenty of extra time to plan your week. From the most talked about new exhibitions to films and special programs, here’s what you won’t want to miss at MoMA:
Bill Morrison. Spark of Being. 2010. Performed by Dave Douglas & Keystone at Memorial Auditorium, Stanford University, April 24, 2010. Photo: © 2010 Laurie Olinder
• As part of the film retrospective Bill Morrison: Compositions, on Tuesday, October 14, MoMA presents the first of three special film/live performance events: Morrison’s Spark of Being (2010), a retelling of the Frankenstein story, with a live performance by Dave Douglas & Keystone.
• A looping selection of more than two dozen of Morrison’s films will also be shown in Bill Morrison: Re-Compositions, beginning Tuesday, October 14, and running through March 2015 in the Museum’s first-floor film lobby.
• On Wednesday, October 15, we kick off a weeklong run of Jessica Oreck’s The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga</a>,</strong> an animation/documentary hybrid recounting a childhood Slavic fable—a highlight of this year’s New Directors/New Films festival. </p></blockquote>
Benny and Jack’s Flying Machine. 2012. Great Britain. Directed by Krysten Resnick. Courtesy Krysten Resnick
• Young art lovers (ages four and up) can enjoy our Family Films program Outside the Box: Creative Thinkers, on Saturday, October 18. This month, animated and live-action short films will be followed by a book signing with director and author William Joyce, who will join us for a Q&A about his film The Numberlys.
• Our latest drawings exhibition, Jean Dubuffet: Soul of the Underground, opens on Saturday, October 18, focusing on the artist’s key period from the 1940s to the mid-1960s, when he experimented with organic materials and decaying surfaces, and moved toward near-total abstraction.
Sound / Source at MoMA PS1
• New Amsterdam Records presents a special day of electroacoustic music for Sunday Sessions at MoMA PS1 on Sunday, October 19. The event, Sound/Source</a>, includes live performances and new sound installations by a number of electronic artists and composers, along with a special interactive display of handcrafted instruments by MOOG.</p>
• Sunday, October 19, is also the last day to see Jimenez Lai’s White Elephant (Privately Soft) and other architects’ projects in Conceptions of Space: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Architecture.
