Moma Talks: Conversations

March 2, 2007 6:30 p.m. Culling materials and subjects from the streets, Swoon creates paper cutouts and installations that re-envision the experience of urban life. Inspired by historical sources ranging from German Expressionist woodblock prints to Indonesian shadow puppets, this New York–based artist has covered the city streets with her work for over six years. She has exhibited most recently in P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center’s Greater New York 2005. In the summer of 2006, she participated in the “Miss Rockaway Armada” on the Mississippi River. Introductory music by the Miss Rockaway Armada band

February 28, 2007 6:00 p.m. Scholars offer their perspectives on the artist's work, placing it in the greater context of art history, Latin American culture (Venezuela in particular), and European avant-garde movements. John Elderfield, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, and organizer of the exhibition, moderates the discussion. María Elena Huizi, Independent scholar, Caracas. Luis Pérez-Oramas, The Estrellita Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art, Department of Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art. Susan Stewart, Annan Professor of English, Princeton University; poet; and author of The Open Studio: Essays on Art and Aesthetics (2004). Held in conjunction with the exhibition Armando Reverón.

February 28, 2007 3:30 p.m. In this series, artists whose work has been exhibited at MoMA lead Gallery Talks. Kota Ezawa describes his media works as "video archaeology." Often basing his art on archival news footage and movie clips, he provokes viewers to evaluate the accuracy of their own memories of events in comparison to his modified version. Ezawa studied at D¨sseldorf's Kunstakademie under Nam June Paik and at the San Francisco Art Institute. In this presentation Ezawa discusses paintings by Cézanne's The Bather and Château Noir, Marcel Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel, Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist Composition: White on White, Brancusi's Fish and Bird in Space, Giacometti's City Square and Dog, Martin Creed's Work No. 227, The Lights Going On And Off, and his own video, The Simpson Verdict. Photo courtesy of Meredith Rees

February 26, 2007 6:00 p.m. Jeff Wall discusses his work in conjunction with the retrospective that traces his photography from the late 1970s to the present. Photo courtesy of Paula Court

February 23, 2007 6:30 p.m. New York-based architecture firm OBRA Architects, founded by Pablo Castro and Jennifer Lee in 2000, has exhibited internationally and was named one of the 2005 Emerging Voices by the Architectural League of New York. The firm received two American Architecture Awards from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and won the 2006 MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program competition with BEATFUSE!, a courtyard installation of interconnecting curved shells and wooden tidal pools.

January 18, 2007 6:00 p.m. Captivated by the politics of colonialism and war, Edouard Manet depicted the execution of the Emperor Maximilian in a series of paintings and lithographs from 1867 to 1869. In this panel discussion, scholars and artists discuss the legacy of Manet’s representation of politics and war through painting and historical documentation. Panelists include artists Sue Coe, Gilles Peress, Yinka Shonibare, and Krzysztof Wodiczko; Philip Gourevitch, editor, The Paris Review and author of We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda (1998); and moderated by Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Associate Professor, European Art since 1700, University of California, Berkeley. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Manet and the Execution of Maximillian.

January 31, 2007 3:30 p.m. In this series, artists whose work has been exhibited at MoMA lead Gallery Talks. While his early wall-mounted works read like animated paintings, Jon Kessler’s recent floor sculptures combine jerry-rigged mechanisms with surveillance cameras to create videos in real time. Kessler is an associate professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and has exhibited internationally, including a 1994 retrospective in Europe and a major exhibition of his mechanical video sculptures at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in 2005. NOTE: The recording only contains the introduction and part of the discussion of The Palace at 4 A.M.

Thursday, December 7, 2006 6:00 p.m. Professor Penny Sparke, Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design & Music, Kingston University, London, delivers a lecture investigating contemporary design within the legacy of modern design in Denmark today. A panel discussion, moderated by Laetitia Wolff, writer, curator, and founding director of futureflair, inc., follows the lecture and includes designer Christina Strand and Anders Byriel, director of the textile manufacturing company Kvadrat.

Monday, December 11, 2006 6:00 p.m. This panel considers various aspects of the avant-garde magazine. Examining experimental journals that were conceived as ongoing platforms for new works of art, graphic experimentation, and simultaneous expression in the arts, literature, philosophy, politics, and other fields, participants discuss the ways in which magazines represented the ideas of particular artistic and intellectual communities, even as they responded to and disseminated ideas internationally. With Liza Bear, former editor and co-founder with Willoughby Sharp of Avalanche magazine (1970–76); Benjamin Buchloh, Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of Modern Art, Harvard University and former editor of Interfunktionen (1968–75); Edward Sullivan, Dean for the Humanities and Professor of Fine Arts, New York University; and Willoughby Sharp, independent curator, artist, and former publisher and co-founder of Avalanche. Moderated by David Little, Director of Adult and Academic Programs, The Museum of

Monday, December 4, 2006 6:00 p.m. Critics and scholars discuss the influence of geography and culture on Brice Marden’s work through individual presentations and a discussion moderated by Gary Garrels. “The New York School” Richard Shiff, Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art, The University of Texas at Austin “China and the East” John Yau, poet and author of Paradiso Diaspora (2006), Ing Grish (2005), Borrowed Love Poems (2002), and Brice Marden: Drawings and Paintings 1964–2002 (2003), among many others. “The Mediterranean, the Classical, and the Renaissance” Jean-Pierre Criqui, art historian, critic, and editor of Les Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne of the Centre Pompidou Held in conjunction with the exhibition Brice Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings.

Monday, November 13, 2006 6:00 p.m. Artists Francesco Clemente, Luc Tuymans, and Christopher Wool discuss the impact of Brice Marden's work through individual presentations and a conversation moderated by Gary Garrels. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Brice Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings. Photo courtesy of Miriam Berkley

Artists Speak: Conversations on Contemporary Art with Glenn D. Lowry Thursday, November 2, 2006 6:30 p.m. In a conversation moderated by Glenn D. Lowry, artists Ghada Amer and Alfredo Jaar discuss the role in contemporary culture of the artist as an international nomad and the problem of locating new work within current artistic categories.

Wednesday, November 8, 2006 6:30 p.m. John Elderfield, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, and organizer of the exhibition Manet and the Execution of Maximilian, and Michael Fried, the J.R. Herbert Boone Professor in the Humanities, Krieger School of Arts and Science, The Johns Hopkins University, and author of the critically acclaimed Manet's Modernism: or, the Face of Painting in the 1860s, discuss the Maximilian paintings and Manet's importance to the history of modern art. Photo courtesy of Miriam Berkley

Wednesday, November 1, 2006 6:00 p.m. Brice Marden and Gary Garrels, curator of Brice Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings, discuss the artist's work and the exhibition. Photo courtesy of Miriam Berkley

Friday, November 3, 2006 6:30 p.m. Based in South Africa, industrial designer Barry Whitmill of Freeplay Energy seeks freedom from traditional energy sources. The organization's Self-Sufficient Energy technology combines wind-up, solar, and rechargeable power in unique and portable consumer electronic products. Freeplay makes products such as Lifeline Radio—simultaneously a functional appliance and a means to communicate with, educate, and empower people in the harsh conditions of Third World countries.

Tuesday, September 19, 2006 6:30 p.m. In conjunction with the exhibition Artist’s Choice: Herzog & de Meuron, Perception Restrained, Glenn D. Lowry, director of The Museum of Modern Art, and Jacques Herzog consider the collection from an architect’s perspective and discuss the ways in which thoughtful selections and innovative installations inspire new understandings of art.

Friday, September 15, 2006 6:00 p.m. In conjunction with the exhibition Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, this panel discussion seeks to uncover meanings within and relationships among works of art that are not usually considered in traditional studies of art history. The program consists of brief presentations and a conversation moderated by Luis Pérez-Oramas, curator of the exhibition. Participants include Philippe-Alain Michaud, Film Curator, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; John Rajchman, Associate Professor and Director of MA Programs, 20th Century Art and Philosophy, Columbia University; and Michel Weemans, Professor, L’École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges, Paris.

Artists Speak: Conversations on Contemporary Art with Glenn D. Lowry Performing History: Critical Autobiographies Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:30 p.m. An-My Lê and Allison Smith discuss the role of history in their work. Inspired by personal histories, historical reenactments, war, and performance, these artists confront the present by investigating constructions of the past.

Friday, October 13, 2006 6:30 p.m. Yuri Masnyj's sculptures and works on paper meticulously investigate form and color, juxtaposing figuration and abstraction. Masnyj appropriates material from everyday life, art history, and contemporary culture, transforming it through fragmentation, line, gesture, and structure. He is a graduate of The Cooper Union and has exhibited internationally and in New York, most recently in the 2006 Whitney Biennial and P.S.1's Greater New York 2005.

Part II of a series of talks by ten artists represented in MoMA PS1's Greater New York 2010 , (May 23–October 18), an exhibition of work by artists in the New York metropolitan area who engage in a wide range of art practices and mediums. In sessions consisting of short and dynamic presentations of twenty images, twenty-five seconds per image, loosely modeled on an informal Japanese presentation style, artists discuss their work, their creative process, and other issues in contemporary art. Presenting artists include David Brooks, Liz Magic Laser, Ryan McNamara, Amir Mogharabi, and A.L. Steiner. Moderated by Eva Respini, Associate Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art.