We offer diverse programs all year long, but this week is packed with unique events for a particularly wide range of audiences. Take a look.
Photo: Cheryl Simon
• It’s spring break for NYC schools this week, so our education department has put together a bunch of special programs for families, including special workshops in the Art Lab, a reading and activity with artist and children’s book author Hervé Tullet, a reading of What Degas Saw and drawing workshop featuring New York City Ballet dancer Dana Jacobson, and a concert celebrating our new art-inspired CD Pop! Goes the Easel</a>. Space is limited, and sign-up is required. Check program pages for details. </p>• Tonight, join multimedia artist Lynette Wallworth for Monday Mondays, which includes the New York premiere of Collisions (2016), a 15-minute virtual-reality experience that kicks off this week’s salute to Sundance Institute’s New Frontier 10th Anniversary, Slithering Screens.
Miwa Matreyek performing This World Made Itself. Photo: Eugene Ahn
• Slithering Screens continues with a selection of original cinematic works that premiered at Sundance Institute’s New Frontier over the past decade: James George and Jonathan Minard’s interactive documentary CLOUDS, Nao Bustamante’s multimedia performance Silver & Gold, three performances by animator and artist Miwa Matreyek, and a multimedia performance by artist, rapper, and Internet personality Yung Jake. Yung Jake will also host a special PopRally event on Thursday night, with music, performance, and video in the Museum’s main lobby.• Drop in to MoMA Books on Tuesday for our latest hands-on workshop, Degas in Process: Making a Monotype, and learn printmaking techniques from artists from the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop.
• On Wednesday don’t miss a lecture by Catherine David, Deputy Director, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, on her past and current curatorial projects. Space is limited and RSVP is required; contact [email protected] or watch the event via live stream on MoMA’s YouTube channel.
Toyo Ito. Meiso no Mori Municipal Funeral Hall, Gifu, Japan. 2004–06. © Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects
• Join us on Saturday for Structured Lineages: Learning from Japanese Structural Design, a symposium in conjunction with the exhibition A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA, and Beyond bringing together seven leading structural engineers to speak about Japanese structural design from 1950 to today. Space is limited and RSVP is required; contact [email protected]• This weekend is the last chance to see Jackson Pollock: A Collection Survey, 1934–1954, a focused exhibition that includes both the artist’s iconic canvases and rarely exhibited works on paper.
• And finally, on Sunday come and celebrate Prime Time—our initiative to bring art and older audiences together—with a day of free admission for anyone 65 or older, plus free art-making activities, gallery talks, film screenings, store discounts, and more.