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May 17, 2016 | Artists, Learning and Engagement

Experiments in Engagement with Wafaa Bilal

Posted by Henry Murphy, Fellow, Public Programs MoMA/Studio Museum in Harlem

As the fellow for public programs at MoMA, part of my focus is working with artists to develop experimental programs that position the Museum as a resource for the public, artists, and “non-artists” alike. This season, I worked with artist Wafaa Bilal to develop a two-day public workshop, Dynamic Encounters: Experiments in Engagement to develop, execute, and present what Bilal calls an “open-ended performance” workshop that became a space for experimentation not only for participants but for Bilal and the Museum as well.

March 16, 2016 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions

Forgotten Bodies and Their Images: Maria Hassabi’s PLASTIC

Posted by Martha Joseph, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Media and Performance Art

Maria Hassabi. PLASTIC. 2015. Installation view, The Museum of Modern Art, February 21–March 20, 2016. Pictured: Maria Hassabi, Oisín Monaghan, Molly Lieber, Hristoula Harakas. Photo: Thomas Poravas. © Maria Hassabi

There are forgotten bodies throughout The Museum of Modern Art. At least, that is how artist and choreographer Maria Hassabi refers to them. On staircases, in the Marron Atrium, and on furniture, visible from balconies and vantage points throughout the building, dancers fall, walk, crawl, or lounge on the floor, alongside accumulated dust and discarded ticket stubs.

October 23, 2015 | Library and Archives

From the Archives: Dance and Theater

Posted by Michelle Elligott, Chief of Archives

Dance and performance are enjoying a renaissance at MoMA—take for example, performances happening at MoMA this fall, such as Trajal Harrell’s The Return of La Argentina or Walid Raad’s Scratching on things I could disavow: Walkthrough. This tendency is apparent at other modern and contemporary arts organizations around the world as well, like the Live program at Tate Modern. But at MoMA the interest in dance and theater is not new. In fact, since its inception in 1929, The Museum of Modern Art has adopted a radical approach to presenting the art of our time.

June 9, 2015 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions

Yoko Ono at MoMA: An Exhibition 50 Years in the Making

Posted by Whitney Rose Graham, Modern Women's Fund 12-Month Intern, Department of Drawings and Prints

Yoko Ono at The Museum of Modern Art. 2015. Photograph by Kishin Shinoyama. Courtesy Lenono Photo Archive, New York. © 2015 Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono at The Museum of Modern Art’s Sculpture Garden. 2015. Photograph by Kishin Shinoyama. Courtesy Lenono Photo Archive, New York. © Yoko Ono 2015

Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971 heralds Ono’s first official solo exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art. However, it is not her first interaction with the Museum. Ono’s engagement with MoMA dates to her arrival onto the New York art scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

July 2, 2013 | Artists, Events & Programs

Embodying the Archive: Xaviera Simmons on Archive as Impetus (Not on View)

Posted by Jordan Carter, 12-Month Fluxus Collection Intern, Department of Drawings and Prints Hanna Exel, Louise Bourgeois 12-Month Intern, Department of Drawings and Prints

An Archive as Impetus performance in MoMA’s Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. Photograph courtesy of Xaviera Simmons)

An Archive as Impetus (Not on View) performance in MoMA’s Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. Photograph by Martin Seck

Plenty of people think of museums, libraries, and archives as stagnant and apolitical places; sites where histories are not created, but simply preserved. In her performance Archive as Impetus (Not on View)—presented several times per week during the month of June as part of MoMA’s Artists Experiment initiative—artist Xaviera Simmons asked viewers to reconsider the role of the museum.

June 20, 2013 | Artists, Events & Programs

Living History: Xaviera Simmons and Archive as Impetus

Posted by Sheetal Prajapati, Associate Educator, Public Programs

An Archive as Impetus performance in MoMA’s Agnes Gund Garden Lobby. Photograph courtesy of Xaviera Simmons

What do women artists want?

This question is announced through a microphone, repeated—carrying out into MoMA’s Garden Lobby and on to the second-floor Marron Atrium as visitors stop, turn, and listen.

April 16, 2013 | Events & Programs

Mathieu Copeland This Week at MoMA

Posted by Kenneth Goldsmith, MoMA "Poet Laureate"

Une Chorégraphie Polyphonique & Une exposition à être lue, Geneva, 2011

This week, MoMA hosts the European-based curator Mathieu Copeland, who will stage interventions in the Museum and give a lecture on Wednesday at 6:00 p.m.

February 17, 2011 | Collection & Exhibitions

On the Staging of Staging Action

Posted by Lucy Gallun, Assistant Curator, Department of Photography

As I’ve assisted Roxana Marcoci and Eva Respini with the exhibition Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960—which opened January 28 in The Robert and Joyce Menschel Gallery on the third floor—I’ve come to recognize the variety of layered themes that are present in the show, despite the fact that the exhibition itself only includes about 50 works (many of which are new acquisitions).

January 10, 2011 | Collection & Exhibitions, Performance Series

Drawing in Space: On Line Performances at MoMA

Posted by Esther Adler, Assistant Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints

There’s a long history of dance and performance both inspiring and being influenced by the visual arts. The current MoMA exhibition On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, on view on the sixth floor, is full of examples of artists trying to capture dancers’ moving bodies in drawings, paintings and sculpture, as well as documenting them on film. If a line is the trace of a point in motion—an idea at the heart of On Line—then a human figure moving through space can be seen as a drawing in air, an insertion of drawing into the time and three-dimensional space of our lived world.