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This Week at MoMA: December 8–14

This Week at MoMA: December 8–14

Posted by
Carolyn Kelly, Coordinating Editor, Marketing and Communications

This week is all about spanning time, old and new, and most importantly art. Here’s what not to miss at MoMA this week:

• Today at 4:00 p.m., photographer Nicholas Nixon, whose portraits are on view in the Museum lobby, will sign copies of his latest book, The Brown Sisters: Forty Years, at the MoMA Design and Bookstore.

Max Burchartz. Lotte (Eye). 1928. Gelatin silver print, 11 7/8 x 15 3/4″ (30.2 x 40 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Thomas Walther Collection. Acquired through the generosity of Peter Norton. © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

• On Tuesday the website Object:Photo launches, presenting groundbreaking research on the more than 340 modernist photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection at MoMA, and coinciding with the exhibition Modern Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection, 1909–1949, which opens on Saturday.

• Join leading Matisse scholars on Wednesday for Henri Matisse’s Cut-Outs: A Discussion, exploring central works in MoMA’s Matisse exhibition and the artist’s lasting influence on contemporary art. Tickets are nearly sold out, so get yours today.

Uncertain Terms. 2014. USA. Directed by Nathan Silver

• The ninth annual Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You series—presenting highlights from the festival circuit that have yet to be picked up for theatrical distribution—kicks off its four-day run on Friday with a screening of Nathan Silver’s Uncertain Terms.

Michaela Eichwald. The Return of the Bodies in the Landscape [Die Rückkehr der Körper in die Landschaft]. 2014. Oil, synthetic polymer paint, and graphite on synthetic leather, 51 3/16 x 82 11/16″ (130 x 210 cm). Mima and César Reyes Collection, Puerto Rico. Courtesy dépendance, Brussels. Photo: Matt Grubb

• Also new in exhibitions, The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World—featuring 17 artists working today who mix past styles and genres, using sampling, reanimation, and reenactment—opens to the public on Sunday.

• Finally, head to Sunday Sessions at MoMA PS1 for ALLGOLD Presents: Underground; an indefinite community?, a day of live sound and music performances, talks, and visuals in the VW Dome, featuring Detroit-based music collective Underground Resistance, and an evening performance in the PrintShop with Arcane Device, Unguent, and Tommy Birchett.