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NYC Public Schools Teacher Art Show: The Art of the Educator | MoMA

1 month ago | moma.org

Installation. Through Apr 27. Being both an artist and educator can feel natural, but connecting the two roles meaningfully isn’t always straightforward. Sometimes, educators feel they must leave their artist identities behind when they enter the classroom. Nevertheless, their artistic practice remains a vital part of their identity and enriches the education they provide. The Art of the Educator celebrates the artistic talents of public school teachers in New York City and highlights how their artwork reflects the excellence they bring to their students every day. To present this exhibition, MoMA’s Young Learners team has proudly collaborated with the New York City Art Teachers Association/United Federation of Teachers, which supports art educators and advocates for quality art programs. By hosting events to showcase student and educator work and recognize artist-teachers, NYCATA/UFT promotes the importance of art education for all students.
Hearing: Janet Cardiff’s The Forty Part Motet

2 months ago | moma.org | Sarah Cowan

Our latest video takes you from an artist’s studio to a cathedral to illustrate how closing your eyes is sometimes the best way to experience art. Sarah Cowan Feb 24, 2025 How does the sense of hearing trigger our imagination? And what role does that play in art? In pursuit of some answers, we traveled to rural British Columbia to visit artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller.
I Spent 24 Hours Watching The Clock

Jan 9, 2025 | moma.org | Jason Persse

Christian Marclay’s video installation gives new meaning to “a day at the office.” Jason Persse Jan 9, 2025 “It’s like a fellow I once knew in El Paso. One day, he just took all his clothes off and jumped in a mess of cactus.
An Evening with Heather McAdams | MoMA

Dec 11, 2024 | moma.org

Heather McAdams joins us to present new 16mm restorations of her irreverent collage films from the 1980s, recently preserved by the Chicago Film Society. Known for her work as a cartoonist and filmmaker, McAdams has long been a fixture of Chicago’s alternative film and music scenes and was once hailed by B. Ruby Rich in the Chicago Reader as combining “the collage finesse of a Bruce Conner with the crude campiness of the Kuchar brothers.” McAdams’s found-footage films mine popular culture, often drawing on her extensive collection of industrials, educational films, advertisements, home movies, and music films. Through scratch animation, hand-painting, and audiovisual collage, these celluloid fragments of Americana are reassembled into feminist send-ups of gender norms, beauty standards, and the nuclear family. The screening also features McAdams’s personal documentaries, including her offbeat portrait of Bradley Harrison Picklesimer, a Kentucky drag queen who ran his own nightclub in downtown Lexington. Assembling found imagery with footage of Bradley tending bar or reflecting on the goings on at the club, gender expression, and the ups and downs of life, Meet…Bradley Harrison Picklesimer is a memorable entry in queer oral history, brought to life with McAdams’s distinctive DIY sensibility. The screening is followed by a conversation with the filmmaker and Kyle Westphal, Programmer, Chicago Film Society, moderated by Sophie Cavoulacos, associate curator in the Department of Film. The Scratchman. 1980. USA. Directed by Heather McAdams. 16mm. 3 min. Scratchman # 2. 1982. USA. Directed by Heather McAdams. 16mm. 3 min. Holiday Magic. 1985. USA. Directed by Heather McAdams. 16mm. 7 min. All Fucked Up. 1983. USA. Directed by Heather McAdams. 16mm. 8 min. Fetal Pig Anatomy. 1989. Directed by Heather McAdams. Sound by Billy DesJardins. 16mm. 6 min. You. 1983. USA. Directed by Heather McAdams. 16mm. 4 min. Comes to a Point Like an Ice-Cream Cone. 1997. USA. Directed by Heather McAdams, Chris Ligon. 16mm. 18 min. Meet…Bradley Harrison Picklesimer. 1988. USA. Directed by Heather McAdams. 16mm. 32 min. Program approx. 81 min. New York restoration premiere. Meet…Bradley Harrison Picklesimer preserved by Chicago Film Society through the National Film Preservation Foundation’s Avant-Garde Masters program and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. All other films preserved by Chicago Film Society with funding from the National Film Preservation Foundation.
To Save and Project: The 21st MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation

Dec 10, 2024 | moma.org | Robert Byrne

Film series MoMA, Floor T2/T1 The Debra and Leon Black Family Film Center Our annual To Save and Project festival returns in 2025 with a rich selection of newly restored treasures from archives around the world. This year’s program spans nearly a century of cinema, from pioneering German Expressionist works like Robert Wiene’s Raskolnikow (1923) to groundbreaking independent films of the 1970s like James Bidgood’s Pink Narcissus (1971).
Everything You Need to Know About Henri Matisse’s Cut-Outs

Dec 6, 2024 | moma.org | Samantha Friedman

Watch, listen, and discover more about the culminating innovation of a restlessly inventive artist. Henri Matisse. Nuit de Noël. Paris, summer–fall 1952. Stained glass, 11' 3/4" × 54 3/4" × 5/8" (332.5 × 139 × 1 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Time, Inc. © 2024 Succession H. Matisse/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Henri Matisse. Memory of Oceania. Nice-Cimiez, Hôtel Régina, summer 1952-early 1953.
How to See an Exquisite Corpse

Oct 16, 2024 | moma.org | Sarah Cowan

The famous Surrealist game has taken on a life of its own over 100 years. Sarah Cowan Oct 16, 2024 In celebration of the 100th anniversary of André Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism, this short documentary takes a deep dive into the Surrealist game cadavre exquis or “exquisite corpse,” a collaborative drawing made by multiple people, with each adding a different body part while unaware of what the others drew.
Smell: Montien Boonma’s House of Hope

Oct 7, 2024 | moma.org | Sarah Cowan

Go behind the scenes of a monumental installation that explores how the invisible can be the most evocative element of an artwork. Sarah Cowan Oct 7, 2024 When artist Montien Boonma was searching for a cure for his wife’s cancer, he turned to traditional Thai medicine and the healing power of smell. Boonma made this experience central to one of his most ambitious immersive installations, what he called “a house with pills” that evokes a sacred temple.
Smell: Mike Kelley’s Deodorized Central Mass with Satellites

Sep 10, 2024 | moma.org | Sarah Cowan

Watch the first installment in our new video series exploring how art is more than meets the eye. Sarah Cowan Sep 10, 2024 Still from Smell: Mike Kelley’s Deodorized Central Mass with Satellites ShareInclude playlistAn error occurred while retrieving sharing information. Please try again later.
Crafting Modernity Networks, Part 3: Memory and Design in Argentina and Chile | MoMA

Aug 22, 2024 | moma.org

In conjunction with the exhibition Crafting Modernity: Design in Latin America, 1940-1980, this three-part series of conversations among Latin American scholars is intended to highlight new research, amplify complexities, and strengthen networks of scholarship and fellowship among creative circles interested in art, architecture, and design. In this session, scholars Raul Naon and Fernando Portal will explore the intersection of memory and design in Argentina and Chile. This conversation will be moderated by Inés Katzenstein, Director, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America, and Curator of Latin American Art. Register for Crafting Modernity Networks Part 3 on Wednesday, September 11, online via Zoom Inés Katzenstein, Director, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America, and Curator of Latin American Art. Raúl Naón, cofounder and president of Foundation IDA, is an art collector who seeks to foster and advance the arts and cultural endeavors, especially in Argentina. Foundation IDA works to preserve and promote the history of Argentine design in fields like industrial, textile, fashion, and graphic design. His role was key in loaning works for the Crafting Modernity exhibition at MoMA. For nearly two decades, Naón has been involved with Foundation Espigas, which focuses on preserving the history of visual arts in Argentina. From 2014 to 2016, he served on the board of the Latin American and Caribbean Fund at MoMA, where he helped to increase the visibility of the region’s art on the global stage. Fernando Portal is an artist and researcher exploring the intersections between design and politics. He is currently an associate professor and director of the interdisciplinary research center Núcleo Lenguaje y Creación at Universidad de las Américas in Santiago, Chile. Portal holds a master’s degree in Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture from Columbia GSAPP, and is currently a PhD candidate at the Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar. He has collaborated extensively with artists and cultural institutions in Latin América, Europe and the US in the development of curatorial, editorial, and performance-based projects related to the memory of counter-hegemonic practices in architecture and design, and to the development of self-organized cultural and communal spaces. He is editor and co-editor of several books, including Lo nuevo, de nuevo. Arquitectura y bienal en Chile (2021), and Esto no es Arquitectura (2023). Accessibility CART captioning will be available and American Sign Language (ASL) is available for public programs upon request with two weeks’ advance notice. MoMA will make every effort to provide accommodation for requests made with less than two weeks’ notice. Please contact [email protected] to make a request for these accommodations.