MoMA | This Week at MoMA: February 23

February 23, 2015 | This Week at MoMA

This Week at MoMA: February 23–March 1

Posted by Carolyn Kelly, Coordinating Editor, Marketing and Communications

Winter can make even the most extroverted people feel lonely. So what better time to come to the Museum, where the galleries are buzzing, and our programs—talks with artists, story time for toddlers, impromptu drawing sessions—allow you to mingle. Check out this week’s offerings and see for yourself.

Letters to Max. 2014. France. Directed by Eric Baudelaire. Courtesy of the filmmaker

• Don’t miss a Modern Mondays evening tonight with Eric Baudelaire and Maxim Gvinjia, in conjunction with Documentary Fortnight 2015. Baudelaire will screen his new film, Letters to Max (2014), and discuss the issues at stake in The Secession Sessions, his project exploring statelessness.

• Sketch from life! Drop by the Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition on Tuesday from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. to participate in a free, informal drawing session in the galleries or with a live model.

Installation view of The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, The Museum of Modern Art, December 14, 2014–April 5, 2015. Photo: John Wronn © 2015 The Museum of Modern Art

• Join painter Dianna Molzan and Aspen Art Museum director Heidi Zuckerman on Thursday for Close Conversations, a series of intimate talks in the galleries exploring the work of artists featured in The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World. Seating is limited, so get your ticket today.

• Bring your little art lovers (ages two and up) to MoMA Art Lab: Places and Spaces on Friday for an interactive Story Time, starting at 11:00 a.m.

• Also on Friday, Documentary Fortnight concludes with a screening of Hot Type: 150 Years of The Nation, followed by a discussion with director Barbara Kopple; The Nation editor-in-chief Katrina Vanden Heuvel; and selected staff writers.
Around the World in 50 Concerts. 2014. Netherlands. Directed by Heddy Honigmann. Courtesy of Cobos Films

• A weeklong presentation of Heddy Honigmann’s Around the World in 50 Concerts</a>, which captures the 2013 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra’s 125th anniversary world tour, begins on Saturday. 
• On Sunday, join local artists Mary Damian and Quan Zeng at the MoMA Store in Soho for an afternoon customizing your own Brooklyn Model Water Tower, a model kit by Boundless Brooklyn that’s available for purchase.

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