Wide-ranging events and exhibitions offer something for everyone this week. Check out these highlights:
Mock up for Miera iela in Riga, Latvia, by Fine Young Urbanists
• Tonight, a group of architects and social scientists convene for What Is a Decent City? Reflections on Uneven Growth, a roundtable discussion in conjunction with the exhibition Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities. This event is free but reservations are required.
• For Modern Mondays, independent filmmaker David OReilly discusses his award-winning career in animation and graphic design, and screens some of his most celebrated works, including the New York theatrical premiere of The Horse Raised by Spheres (2015).
Yoko Ono . Museum Of Modern (F)art. 1971. Exhibition catalogue, offset, 11 13⁄16 x
11 13⁄16 x 3⁄8″ (30 x 30 x 1 cm). The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York. © 2015 Yoko Ono
• Beginning Thursday, members get a first look at Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971 during Member Previews. The exhibition, which opens to the public on Sunday, brings together about 125 of the avant-garde artist’s early conceptual and performance works.• Don’t miss MoMA PS1’s seasonal Night at the Museum on Friday from 9:00 p.m. to midnight, and take in exhibitions featuring the work of Wael Shawky, Math Bass, Halil Altindere, Simon Denny, and more.
A Closer Look for Kids. Photo: Martin Seck
• Families can enjoy the final gallery talks of the season with Tours for Fours and A Closer Look for Kids this weekend, exploring place and movement respectively.
• And photography fans will have two new exhibitions to explore beginning Sunday. From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires: Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola features the experimental practices of two modern art pioneers, and Art on Camera: Photographs by Shunk-Kender, 1960–1971 is the inaugural exhibition of works donated to MoMA by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation of the work of Harry Shunk and János Kender, who photographed artworks, events, and landmark exhibitions of avant-garde movements of the era.
