September 6, 2007 6:00 p.m. Co-curator Lynne Cooke and Richard Serra discuss the artist’s work and the exhibition Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years. Photo courtesy of Paula Court

MoMA Talks: Conversations

A Conversation between Lynne Cooke and Richard Serra

In conjunction with the MoMA exhibition Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925, Bang on a Can presents a pair of concerts that reveal how pioneering European composers of 100 years ago forever changed the music in New York. Each concert pairs two composers—an early-20th-century innovator, and a New Yorker they influenced. The music is performed by alumni and faculty of the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, a program dedicated entirely to the creation, study, and performance of the most adventurous music of our time. This second evening in the series features one of Arnold Schoenberg's shortest, oddest, most intense pieces, Herzgewächse, a shockingly expressive vocal miniature originally written for Vasily Kandinsky's journal The Blue Rider. Morton Feldman's meditative work Three Voices, for solo voice and two prerecorded solo voices, a luxurious, introspective setting of a poem by Frank O'Hara, has a much slower tempo than the Schoenberg piece, but is ultimately no less intense.

Dissonant Abstraction

In conjunction with MoMA's presentation of Wolfgang Laib's Pollen from Hazelnut, Agnes Gund, President Emerita of The Museum of Modern Art, joins the artist in conversation about the installation and his creative process. Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, moderates.

Conversation with Gund and Laib

Media artist and filmmaker Scott Snibbe and his collaborator Lukas Girling discuss their work and its relationship to sound in space, with a particular focus on REWORK_(Philip Glass Remixed) [GLASS MACHINE], which is featured at MoMA Studio.

Artist Talk: Scott Snibbe

Artist Joe McKay discusses his work and its relationship to sound in space, with a particular focus on Light Wave and Tweetagraph, his interactive installations in MoMA Studio.

Artist Talk: Joe McKay

Claes Oldenburg reads from Writing on the Side 1956–1969 (edited by Achim Hochdörfer, Maartje Oldenburg, and Barbara Schröder), a newly published selection of diaries, notes, poems, scripts, and statements that the artist wrote in the 1960s. The event is introduced by Ann Temkin, Chief Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, and organizer of the exhibition Claes Oldenburg: The Street and The Store and Claes Oldenburg: Mouse Museum/Ray Gun Wing; and Maartje Oldenburg. The reading is followed by a book signing and reception.

Claes Oldenburg: Writing on the Side 1956–1969

Curator Mathieu Copeland discusses the poetics of interstitial, neutral and otherwise overlooked off-spaces—and off-times—of museums and galleries. He envisages how they can be activated and seen anew through a variety of perspectives, and thus subvert the traditional role of exhibitions and renew the way they are perceived.

An Exhibition Happening Everywhere, At All Times, with Everyone: A Lecture by Mathieu Copeland

This half-day symposium explores the art scene and artistic production in Tokyo in the 1950s and 1960s through a series of film screenings and discussions with directors, curators, critics, and artists. The films, including ANPO: Art X War (Linda Hoaglund, 2010), Some Young People (Nagano Chiaki, 1964), and Japan: The New Art (Michael and Christian Blackwood, 1970), are followed by the roundtable discussion, “What Was So Avant-Garde about Tokyo from 1955 to 1970?”

Art in Tokyo, 1950s and 1960s: Conversations and Films

On the occasion of the publication of Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941–1991, this roundtable discussion explores Robert Motherwell's role as a thinker across creative disciplines including painting, poetry, philosophy, and music. Presenters include Debra Balken, Bill Berkson, Tim Clifford, Heidi Colsman-Freyberger, Robert Hobbs, and Katy Rogers. Moderated by Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA. Following the program, visit The Museum of Modern Art Archives to view selected Motherwell materials and join us for a reception in the library. This program is presented in collaboration with the Dedalus Foundation and the Museum Library and Archives.

Motherwell in His Time

Legendary Brazilian poet and founder of the Concrete poetry movement Augusto de Campos and his son, the musician Cid Campos, present a multimedia performance of text, music, and, image. Working within the expanded territory of poetry, Augusto de Campos uses sounds to activate associative thinking and explore the possibilities of language. Revitalizing Frank O'Hara's legacy and MoMA's historical commitment to poetry, this series invites poets and performers to bring the literary tradition to the Museum's collection. They read historical works and their own work that reflects on modern and contemporary art.

Modern Poets: Poetry Is Risk: A Performance with Augusto de Campos and Cid Campos

Friday, November 10, 2006 6:30 p.m. Trisha Donnelly's photographs, drawings, and video, sound, and performance art challenge viewers to consider the meaning of signs, logic, and narrative. Through gestures, expressions, and the passage of time, she cryptically reveals imaginary languages and belief systems that alter viewers' perceptions of images and environments. Donnelly received a BFA from UCLA and an MFA from Yale University. Her work has been seen most recently in the 2003 Venice Biennale and the Carnegie International in 2004. Photo courtesy of Miriam Berkley

Trisha Donnelly- Conversations with Contemporary Artists Series

Paul Bartow and J. Morgan Puett in conversation.

Pedagogy: Whole Schooling

Wednesday, December 7, 2011 6:00 p.m. Negar Azimi, Senior Editor, Bidoun Projects (a not-for-profit publishing, curatorial, and educational initiative), and William Wells, Director, Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, discuss how artists and institutions in the Middle East are engaging with and activating their local communities.

Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Art and the Changing Middle East: Negar Azimi and William Wells

March 08, 2011 6:30 PM Artists Yoko Ono and Kara Walker, whose work is represented in the exhibition Contemporary Art from the Collection, will engage in a dialogue about their respective practices and share their perspectives on how social, political, and gender issues inform their work. Moderated by MoMA director Glenn D. Lowry. NOTE: Audio has been edited to include only Kara Walker's presentation.

Yoko Ono and Kara Walker in Conversation

Thursday, April 28, 2011 6:00 PM New York–based artist Paul Ramírez Jonas, whose work examines the interaction between artist and audience, discusses his artistic practice with Carol Becker, Professor of the Arts and Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts. Moderated by MoMA Director Glenn D. Lowry. Paul Ramírez Jonas' selected solo exhibitions include The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut; the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; Alexander Gray Associates, New York; Björkholmen Gallery, Stockholm; Postmasters Gallery, New York; and surveys at Ikon Gallery and Cornerhouse in the United Kingdom. Ramírez Jonas' work was featured in numerous group exhibitions since the early 1990s, including the Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig; MoMA PS1; Whitechapel, London; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Künstlerhaus, Vienna; The New Museum, New York; and Kunsthaus Zurich. He has participated in the Johannesburg Biennale; the Seoul Biennial, the Shanghai Biennial; the 28th Sao Paulo Biennial; 7th Bienal do Mercosul; and the 53rd Venice Biennial. He has built permanent public art projects in Cambridge, Massachusetts and for the Hudson River Park, New York, New York. In 2010 his Key to the City project was presented by Creative Time in cooperation with the City of New York. He has received numerous grants and awards, including fellowships from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Art Matters, and the Howard Foundation. He holds a B.A. from Brown University and an M.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design. He is a Professor of Art at Hunter College, New York, NY. Carol Becker is Professor of the Arts and Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts. Prior to this appointment she was Dean of Faculty and Senior Vice-President for Academic Affairs at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of numerous articles and several books including: The Invisible Drama: Women and the Anxiety of Change (with multiple foreign editions); Zones of Contention: Essays on Art, Institutions, Gender, and Anxiety; Surpassing the Spectacle: Global Transformations and the Changing Politics of Art; The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society, and Social Responsibility—an edited edition; and most recently, Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production.

Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Social Practice: Paul Ramírez Jonas

Curators, scholars, and artists discuss modern and contemporary art. To view images of these artworks, please visit the Online Collection at moma.org/collection. MoMA Audio is available free of charge courtesy of Bloomberg.

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