This Week at MoMA: November 17–23
Will Patton, Michael Oblowitz and Rosemary Hochschild on the set of Circuits of Control: Minus Zero/Is/Land. 1977–81. Directed by Michael Oblowitz. Courtesy Michael Oblowitz
• Today, November 17, Modern Mondays: A Cine Virus Evening with Michael Oblowitz and Sylvère Lotringer (organized in conjunction with To Save and Project) revisits a groundbreaking 1978 film program featuring works by then-unknown filmmakers Kathryn Bigelow (Near Dark, The Hurt Locker) and Michael Oblowitz.
• Need some joie de vivre? Drop by the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition for Sketching from Life—free, informal drawing sessions on select Tuesdays and Thursdays, including Tuesday, November 18, from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. All materials will be provided.
• As part of our interactive space MoMA Studio: Beyond the Cut-Out, artist Sarah Crowner leads participants in a daylong interactive workshop, Staging the City with Cut-Outs, on Thursday, November 20. Come and make cut-outs that reflect the geometry of New York City’s rich urban setting.
• On Friday, November 21, To Save and Project presents 3-D Funhouse!, a program of rare short films from the 1940s and 1950s that show the early international reach of the 3-D phenomenon.
The Great Flood. 2013. USA. Directed by Bill Morrison. Courtesy of Bill Morrison
• Also on November 21, join us for the closing night of Bill Morrison: Compositions, featuring a presentation of Morrison’s feature-length film The Great Flood (2013), with a searing original score composed by Bill Frisell, featuring musicians Frisell, Ron Miles, Tony Scherr, and Kenny Wollesen.
Nicholas Nixon. The Brown Sisters. 2010. Gelatin silver print, 17 15/16 x 22 1/2″ (45.5 x 57.1 cm). The Family of Man Fund. © 2014 Nicholas Nixon
• An exhibition of photographer Nicholas Nixon’s annual portraits of his wife and her three sisters, Nicholas Nixon: Forty Years of The Brown Sisters, opens on Saturday, November 22. Installed in the main Museum lobby, the exhibition is free to the public during Museum hours.
• The latest exhibition in MoMA’s Issues in Contemporary Architecture series, Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities, also opens on November 22. Visit the exhibition Tumblr site to learn more and to submit “tactical urbanisms”—projects or interventions that make the city more livable—found in your own community.
Xavier Le Roy. Retrospective. 2014. MoMA PS1. Photo by Matthew Septimus. Image courtesy of the artist and MoMA PS1
• On Sunday, November 23, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m., MoMA PS1 Sunday Sessions hosts a symposium in conjunction with Retrospective by Xavier Le Roy that looks at the exhibition from a historical perspective and asks about the possible impact of choreography on the art institution. Participants include Yvonne Rainer, Laurence Rassel, and Christophe Wavelet.
