Sherrie Levine. President Collage: 1 (detail). 1979. Cut-and-pasted printed paper on paper, 24 x 18″ (61 x 45.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift. © 2015 Sherrie Levine
If you’ve got the day off in honor of Presidents’ Day, you could sleep in and do nothing… but you could also do something amazing at MoMA. Here’s what we recommend for the week:
• Join Gallery Sessions today for Toying with Texture: The Prints and Process of Jean Dubuffet, which explores the special exhibition Jean Dubuffet: Soul of the Underground, and the artist’s irreverent use of materials like dirt, fruit peels, leaves, gravel, and sandpaper to create abstract images.
Leo Fender, George Fullerton, Freddie Tavares. Left: Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar. Designed 1954, this example 1957. Wood, metal, and plastic. Right: Fender Bassman amplifier. 1959. Wood, metal, and plastic. Committee on Architecture and Design Funds
• Join us on Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. for a pop-up Stratocaster Session in the exhibition Making Music Modern: Design for Ear and Eye. Come see a MoMA staff member flex their musical muscles on our recently acquired 1957 Fender Stratocaster guitar and 1959 Bassman amp live in the gallery.
• Wednesday through Friday, as part of the program Acteurism: Ginger Rogers, catch a midday screening of Stage Door (1937), costarring Katherine Hepburn.
Whistle for Willie.1965. USA. Directed by Mal Wittman
• On Saturday, young art lovers (ages four and up) can enjoy our Family Films program I Wish!, including the animated short Whistle for Willie, based on the book by Ezra Jack Keats.
• Also on Saturday and Sunday, Documentary Fortnight continues with a program of short films, Shorts Program: Giving Voice, which is followed by a post-screening conversation with directors Perry Bard, Richard Beenen, Neil Goldberg, and Ryan McKenna.
Image courtesy MoMA PS1
• Join artist Lynn Hershman Leeson for Sunday Sessions at MoMA PS1, as she explores the “Future of Humanity” with artists, musicians, and scientists who have firsthand knowledge of innovations in biomedical engineering.
• And, Sunday is last day to see Sturtevant: Double Trouble, the first comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s playful and pioneering “copycat” works.
