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June 15, 2015  |  This Week at MoMA
This Week at MoMA: June 15–21

As we approach the solstice this week—the official start of summer—things are truly “buzzing” at MoMA. Don’t miss out!

• Celebrating the launch of their monograph Barkow Leibinger: Spielraum (Hatje Cantz, 2015), Frank Barkow of Barkow Leibinger is joined by Barry Bergdoll (MoMA, Columbia University), Hal Foster (Princeton University), and Karen Stein (writer, architectural advisor) for Architecture as Instrument, a discussion on the making of books and buildings. RSVP required.

Pierre Huyghe. Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt) [Reclining female nude]. 2012. Concrete with beehive structure, wax, and live bee colony; figure: 29 1/2 x 57 1/16 x 17 11/16" (75 x 145 x 45 cm), base: 11 13/16 x 57 1/16 x 21 5/8" (30 x 145 x 55 cm), beehive dimensions variable. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase. © 2015 Pierre Huyghe. Photo: Pierre Huyghe

Pierre Huyghe. Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt) [Reclining female nude]. 2012. Concrete with beehive structure, wax, and live bee colony; figure: 29 1/2 x 57 1/16 x 17 11/16″ (75 x 145 x 45 cm), base: 11 13/16 x 57 1/16 x 21 5/8″ (30 x 145 x 55 cm), beehive dimensions variable. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase. © 2015 Pierre Huyghe. Photo: Pierre Huyghe

• On Tuesday, French artist Pierre Huyghe’s sculpture incorporating a live bee colony is unveiled in MoMA’s Sculpture Garden. The honeybees are a gentle Italian breed—read our FAQ for more info.

• The annual Flaherty at MoMA film series—a collaboration with the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar—begins on Saturday, and this year presents the work of filmmakers hailing from Lebanan, Algeria, and Egypt whose work explores the theme “The Scent of Places.”

Yoko Ono. YOKO ONO MORNING PEACE 2015. Spring 2015. Ink on paper; drawing for the event

Yoko Ono. YOKO ONO MORNING PEACE 2015. Spring 2015. Ink on paper; drawing for the event


• Join us at sunrise on Sunday for a special PopRally event—YOKO ONO MORNING PEACE 2015—that celebrates Ono’s current exhibition and the 50th anniversary of her New York performance of Morning Piece (1964) to George Maciunas. Not in New York? Check out our global partner events and follow online using #YokoOnoPeace.

• And this week is your last chance to catch Cut to Swipe—an exhibition featuring recent acquisitions that appropriate and manipulate images and sound drawn from television, cinema, the recording industry, and the Internet—which closes on Sunday.