This week, we’re taking the long view with an eye toward Memorial Day. While many are taking this week/weekend to escape the city, we’re kicking off summer at MoMA with these events and activities:

Degas in Process: Making a Monotype workshop. Photo: Beatriz Meseguer/onwhitewall.com

• On Tuesday, sign up for a Degas in Process: Making a Monotype workshop and make your own print. Artists from the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop will introduce contemporary approaches to the monotype printmaking process.

• Join a special Gallery Session on Wednesday at 1:30 and hear from psychedelic light show designer Joshua White on his life and work creating the renowned light and color visuals of the Joshua Light Show.

Une visite au Louvre (A Visit to the Louvre). 2004. France/Germany. Written and directed by Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub

• On Thursday and Friday catch a pair of art-filled shorts by the filmmaking duo Straub-Huillet: one explores the work of Paul Cézanne using passages from Joachim Gasquet’s 1921 memoir of the artist; the other, A Visit to the Louvre, offers a fierce critique of the presentation of art in museums.

• And be sure to include a visit to MoMA PS1 in your plans. Newly opened exhibitions include a solo show of work by Cao Fei, who blends fantasy and reality across a range of mediums, and an installation that documents the pioneering early performances of Puerto Rican artist Papo Colo.