The back of a Martin Wong painting unlocks the history of graffiti art | HOW TO SEE The Museum of Modern Art 2024-04-16 | This short documentary tells the unknown story of how the back of this painting got covered in graffiti. Before Martin Wong's painting "Houston Street" became part of our collection, rumors circulated about another artwork on its back. When our team replaced the stretcher, they had a chance to study a hidden piece that hadn’t been seen in over 40 years. We invited graffiti artist Sharp (Aaron Goodstone) to the conservation lab to see the painting for the first time since it was shown in 1983. He and filmmaker Charlie Ahearn (Wild Style) share their personal memories of Wong, the impact of his friendship and art, and this intense period in downtown New York. Conversations with conservators, photographs and research discoveries from Wong’s archives, and Ahearn’s video footage of Wong painting in his cramped apartment studio unearth lost paintings and the hidden and moving story of Wong’s “Houston Street.”The artist Martin Wong bridged the graffiti art, poetry, and gallery scenes; his drawings and paintings depict the streets and characters around him on the Lower East Side of New York City, where he moved in 1978. It was a period of creative liberation but also financial struggle and the rise of the AIDS epidemic. Wong was a magnetic figure on the underground scene: openly gay, generous, and wildly creative. Whenever he sold work, he put the money back into supporting other artists, building an enormous graffiti art collection (what he called “aerosol hieroglyphics”), which he showcased in his short-lived Museum of American Graffiti. “We might see his work in the same kind of constellation as Keith Haring or Jean-Michel Basquiat –– art that was often both for and about public space, the street,” explains curator Michelle Kuo.Wong’s “Houston Street,” 1986 is a major work. At eight by thirteen feet and hung to touch the ground, it forms an eerie trompe l'oeil double of the rolling gates that secure shops at night along the block that it is named for. When the painting recently entered MoMA’s collection, its stretcher had to be replaced and conservators and curators had a chance to study something they only had an inkling of: a painting on the back. In 1983, Wong painted the thirteen-foot length of the back of the canvas in his signature brick-by-brick, and then asked his friends, graffiti artists Sharp and Delta 2, to spray paint over it, tagging it like a real wall. At the bottom, he signed it as a collaborative work by all three artists, making explicit his passion for supporting graffiti art, as under-recognized as it was then and still to this day. “Even if it's not totally intentional,” Kuo says, “the idea that you would look at the front of the painting, this blocked metal wall, and then this secret on the other side is this whole other universe.” 00:00-01:21 Introducing Martin Wong01:21-2:28 "Houston Street" 1986 in conservation2:28-3:46 Discovering the back of the painting3:46-5:20 Graffiti artist Sharp's history5:20-7:08 Martin Wong in the downtown art world7:08–8:13 The Museum of American Graffiti8:13–9:07 Missing paintings9:07-10:40 Martin Wong's studio apartment10:40-11:50 Discoveries in the archives11:50-13:20 Martin Wong's death13:20-13:42 Stretching the painting13:42-15:12 Martin Wong's legacySubscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. Image credit correction: Patti Astor and Futura 2000 at the Art & BBQ Party, 1981 © Anita Rosenberg #martinwong #graffiti #graffitiart #newyorkhistory #lowereastside #artdocumentary #documentary #queerartist #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
No More Likes | MoMA R&D Salon 48 | MoMA LIVE The Museum of Modern Art 2024-05-01 | Technology advances in leaps and bounds, but are our lives any better for it? People seem to be increasingly looking for ways to cut back and detox. It’s ironic: iPhone software is now designed to inform you about your screen time in an effort to help you decrease it, and yet all apps are continually made more addictive. Novelty is fast and seductive, and tech companies know we will not resist a glistening new technology until too late—it will be already irrevocably integrated into our daily life. The result is a feeling of whiplash, sometimes even guilt and embarrassment for not having seen it coming. It’s natural to long for a “simpler” time, but what time is that? The younger generation is nostalgic for a time pre-smartphones and pre-Internet, a time most of them didn’t even experience first hand but yet yearn for nonetheless. We know the drill: The technologies of today no longer simply facilitate communication but rather distort our reality. The platforms we utilize prioritize clicks, likes, and views, trapping and limiting us. When fake news and propaganda inundate our feeds, the companies that run these platforms throw their hands up, hiding behind the First Amendment. Since the technologies upon which our society now sits are failing us, do we need new ones? Old ones? New laws? Less of both? A stronger democracy? Stronger individuals?Here are some more of the questions that we will ask: How can we guarantee agency over our future? Should we join the wave of neo-Luddites? Is this version of opting-out the only option? Given how much of our lives are built around technology, is it even an option? Does our ability to connect with others and advance our careers depend too heavily on technology to allow us to opt-out? Is progress for the sake of progress sustainable? What is progress? Why are so many people craving earlier modes of existence? Does a perfect point of technological development exist? Is nostalgia a feeling that can be trusted? Should technological progress be controlled by corporations alone? What did Covid teach us about the mutability of our mode of existence? The evening will commence with a brief introduction by Paola Antonelli, followed by equally brief presentations by – here in alphabetical order:Stefan Andriopoulos: Professor of German and co-founder of the Center for Comparative Media at Columbia University. Kevin Munger: the Jeffrey L. Hyde and Sharon D. Hyde and Political Science Board of Visitors Early Career Professor of Political Science and Assistant Professor of Political Science and Social Data Analytics at Penn State University.Logan Lane: the founder of the Luddite Club in Brooklyn, NY. Subscribe for our latest videos and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribeExplore our collection online: http://mo.ma/artPlan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visitCommit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/joinThe comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speakers alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist.#design #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
The aunt you wish you had | Jason Moran on Joan Jonas The Museum of Modern Art 2024-04-23 | We visited acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran at his home in Harlem to talk with him about artist Joan Jonas’ earliest performance works, “Songdelay” (1973). Filmed with a cast of performers in downtown New York near the Hudson River, the work explores how sound travels and can be distorted. To Moran, it presents many ideas of what songs can be.Moran and Jonas are almost like family, with close to twenty years of collaborative experience. While performing on his piano at home, he reflects on how their musical kinship has impacted his work’s purpose.“Joan is like everything to me,” he says. “Joan listens to your stories and then she tells them back to you in another way. My role is to reflect the world that you don't get to see, and if I get a chance to show it to you through sound, then maybe you'll understand it a little better.”Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #performanceart #jazzpiano #joanjonas #jasonmoran #improv #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
What Is Feminist Art? The Museum of Modern Art 2024-03-29 | Brush up on your art terms.Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #feminism #feministart #womenshistorymonth #womenshistory #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
Käthe Kollwitzs creative process brought to life, Sharpening the Scythe The Museum of Modern Art 2024-03-27 | Watch Käthe Kollwitz's vision take shape in an animated video that traces the evolution of a single artwork. In "Sharpening the Scythe," one of Kollwitz’s most powerful prints, an elderly peasant woman grips the blade of her farming tool, preparing it not for cutting crops, but to take part in a revolt. Watch how Kollwitz arrived at this potent image using her confidence as a draftsman and printmaker.Kollwitz develops and abandons entire compositions as she revises the work, deepening her focus on the woman and intensifying her emotion and strength. As Kollwitz works, we sense her resistance to tropes (a male figure helping the woman, for example) and her painstaking search for the clearest possible message.You can see the different editions of this print in person in the exhibition Käthe Kollwitz, on view at MoMA March 31–July 20, 2024. moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5625Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #drawing #printmaking #creativeprocess #animation #kathekollwitz #kollwitz #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
Step inside a floating universe of fishing nets The Museum of Modern Art 2024-03-21 | Experience up close Carolina Caycedo’s "Spiral for Shared Dreams," a floating installation that descends all levels at MoMA. The work, made from fishing nets made in collaboration with communities in Mexico, addresses environmental issues of extraction and the power of collective action. How can art draw our attention to an individual's role in environmental rights and activism? Hear how two MoMA staff members reflect on what this work whispers about “small acts of the everyday that are saturated with both personal and collective meaning.” “What if we started looking at nature as something that's looking back at us? Could we pay more attention to its signals, respond to its needs, and even acknowledge its rights to be protected?”Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #environmental #installationart #activism #fishingnet #indigenous #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
An Evening with Es Devlin | MoMA R&D The Museum of Modern Art 2024-03-12 | A conversation between Es Devlin and Paola Antonelli to mark the release of her book, "An Atlas of Es Devlin," published by Thames and Hudson."Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
A visit to Joan Jonas New York loft The Museum of Modern Art 2024-03-03 | Visit artist Joan Jonas in her SoHo loft and enter her world of collected objects. A trailblazer of video and performance art, she began her decades-long career working in New York’s vibrant Downtown art scene of the 1960s and ’70s. Here she reflects on the city’s changing landscape, and takes us through the recurring props (mirrors, masks, and kites) and themes (play, mythology, our relationship to animals) that inspire her radical work.Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #joanjonas #performanceart #videoart #newyorkcity #soho #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
Tribute to Pope.Ls provocative crawl performance The Museum of Modern Art 2024-02-29 | Artist Malcolm Peacock pays tribute to “The Great White Way,” a famous work by Pope.L in which he crawls the entire span of Broadway in New York in a Superman costume. Self-proclaimed the “Friendliest Black Artist in America©,” Pope.L was beloved by many for his work’s satire and social critique. In the wake of his unexpected passing on December 23, 2023, Peacock discusses this video piece’s influence. “It brings up a really large question around what is heroic, who can be considered super,” he says. “I think Pope L. Is really taking up a position of saying, well, maybe I am. Maybe we are. Maybe anyone can be.” Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #performanceart #satire #popel #tribute #newyork #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
Grace under Pressure | MoMA R&D Salon 47 | MoMA LIVE The Museum of Modern Art 2024-02-28 | Under strain, rehearsed social manners give way to instinctual reactions that often reveal one’s true character. Not only exceptional circumstances but even daily routine can push someone beyond the threshold. Keeping those reactions at bay and displaying grace under pressure demonstrates an individual’s poise, dignity, elegance, and sang-froid. Some individuals need it for their jobs, and even make a career out of it. Think of surgeons, astronauts, or diplomats: their ability to exhibit grace under intense pressure can be a matter of life or death. And yet, everybody should learn the ropes, both individually and collectively. History demands as much.These are some of the questions we will ask: What is grace in a social context? What does it then mean to display grace collectively? Should we be graceful as democracy is threatened and divisions across political party lines have intensified? Are their instances in which more knee-jerk, vehement reactions are preferable? Is there a connection between this concept and soft power? And non-violence? When does grace turn into acquiescence? Should we, as a society, react gracefully to the pressure of reckoning with the climate catastrophe and ecological devastation we have wrought upon ourselves and our planet? The complexity and density of our interconnectedness is operating at a planetary scale with planetary consequences. For the first time, we are inextricably linked by each of our individual actions which cascade and multiply through a network of compounding consequences. Under this unparalleled contemporary condition, what is grace under pressure?The evening will commence with a brief introduction by Paola Antonelli, followed by equally brief presentations by – here in alphabetical order:Leonardo Bravo: is the Director of Public Engagement in the Department of Learning and Engagement at the Museum of Modern Art.Willie James Jennings: is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies at Yale Divinity School and an ordained Baptist minister. Bill T. Jones: is an artist, choreographer, dancer, theater director, writer, and co-founder of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.Cameron Russell: is an American supermodel, activist, and organizer.The presentations will be accompanied by the screening of a series of short videos cut specifically for Salon 47 by: Ocean Ramsey, Verna Kale, Mark McLaughlin, and Astrida Neimanis. This video contain profanity. Subscribe for our latest videos and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribeExplore our collection online: http://mo.ma/artPlan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visitCommit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/joinThe comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speakers alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist.#design #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
What Is the Black Arts Movement? The Museum of Modern Art 2024-02-26 | Brush up on your Art Terms! Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #blackartsmovement #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
What Is Conceptual Art? The Museum of Modern Art 2024-02-19 | Brush up on your art terms!Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #conceptualart #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
What Is AIDS Activism? The Museum of Modern Art 2024-02-12 | Time to brush up on your Art TermsSubscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #AIDS #AIDSactivism #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
How the back of an iconic painting reveals the life it lived The Museum of Modern Art 2024-02-08 | What can a painting tell us about the life it’s led? Come behind the scenes to paintings conservation to discover the journey “Three Musicians,” one of Pablo Picasso’s most notable Cubist works, took, from a garage studio, through World War II, to MoMA.“The back of the painting really acts in a way like its passport. A work like this really shows you, even if it's a single artist who produces the work, there are so many other people who are involved in that painting's life.”Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #arthistory #pablopicasso #picasso #worldwar2 #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
What Is Mexican Muralism? The Museum of Modern Art 2024-02-05 | Brush up on your Art TermsSubscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #mexicanmuralism #diegorivera #history #artterms #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
Guided Color Meditation | 8 minutes with healing frequencies The Museum of Modern Art 2024-01-30 | How does color make you feel? Join meditation artist Dora Kamau for an eight-minute guided audio meditation that explores the therapeutic power of color. We’ll delve into color theory and the psychological and emotional effects colors can have on us. Composer James Pratley Watson, who created the soundscape for this meditation, aligned each color with its respective sonic “healing frequency,” in an attempt to infuse it with a deeper vibrational resonance. As Kamau leads you through this immersive meditation, allow the interplay of sound and color to guide you through a calming exploration of your own consciousness.Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #meditation #guidedmeditation #colormeditation #healingfrequencies #stressrelief #wellness #modernart #art #museumofmodernart #moma
Scale | MoMA R&D Salon 46 | MoMA LIVE The Museum of Modern Art 2024-01-30 | In its size and complexity, the universe we inhabit exists at a scale that is fundamentally ungraspable by humans. We have therefore developed tools of perception and abstraction in the attempt to better comprehend it and our position within it. With each revolution in thought or scientific innovation—from Copernicus’s heliocentric model to the invention of the microscope to the detonation of the first nuclear bomb—comes the need to dramatically reconfigure our sense of scale and place. In today’s world, the digital storage of the touchstones of our daily lives (documents, messages, books, music, movies, etc.) evades our ability to fathom its volume through visual or embodied perception. Scale is no longer just a function of size but rather more so now of complexity, thereby evading the scope of our current tools. Though the Eameses’ dream is now literally at our fingertips with our ability to zoom with abandon, what new tools for understanding are necessary to invent in order to address our contemporary issues of scale?Here are some of the questions we will ask: How has our perception of scale changed over time? How have scientific milestones contributed to that shift? What shifts will come next? What is our place in the universe? How can we fully come to terms with its scale? Are we in a crisis of perception? With the ever-increasing complexity of our world, will we ever be able to fully comprehend it? Do we even need to? Should our actions depend upon this comprehension? How can we grapple with phenomena such as the climate crisis? In what ways has scale become an issue of complexity over size? How do we understand scale in terms of both time and space?The evening will commence with a brief introduction by Paola Antonelli, followed by equally brief presentations by – here in alphabetical order:Alexandra Amon: is a cosmologist who uses large-scale surveys of galaxies to study the structure of the universe and is Assistant Professor of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University.Susan Buck-Morss: is a trans-disciplinary scholar with interests in critical theory, philosophy of history, and trans-local global commons and is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Jamer Hunt: collaboratively designs open and adaptable frameworks for participation that respond to emergent cultural conditions and is Professor of Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons School of Design. Trevor Paglen: is an artist whose work spans image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering, and numerous other disciplines.The presentations will be accompanied by the screening of a series of short videos cut specifically for Salon 46 by: D. Graham Burnett, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Simon Denny, Olafur Eliasson, Mike Hulme, Hannah Landecker, Laura U. Marks, Jussi Parrika, Jonas Staal, Elaine Scarry, and Annabel J. Wharton.MoMA R&D is made possible by Allianz.Subscribe for our latest videos and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribeExplore our collection online: http://mo.ma/artPlan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visitCommit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/joinThe comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speakers alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist.#design #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
What Is Surrealism? The Museum of Modern Art 2024-01-29 | Surrealists attempted to tap into the "superior reality" of the subconscious mind. They called on artists to explore the uncharted depths of imagination through expression of involuntary thoughts, like dreams.What artists come to mind when you think of Surrealism?Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #surrealism #magritte #art #history #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
Picasso’s Cubist masterpiece: a jazz saxophonist riffs on “Three Musicians” The Museum of Modern Art 2024-01-22 | What do Pablo Picasso and Miles Davis have in common?Hear how Pablo Picasso’s Cubist masterpiece “Three Musicians” makes jazz musician Jerome Sabbagh contemplate performance, experimentation, and mastery. Where you come from and your prior knowledge don’t have to define you. “There's something about art or music, any art form at a really high level, that I think speaks to people in ways that they might not completely understand,” Sabbagh says, “I think that's what makes art universal.” Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #pablopicasso #picasso #milesdavis #jazzmusician #cubism #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
Art as a tool for Social Emotional Learning (SEL) The Museum of Modern Art 2024-01-18 | How can art allow us to express who we are? MoMA Educators are joined by a licensed social worker and therapist to discuss social-emotional learning (SEL), a process that can help us develop healthy identities, manage emotions, and make good decisions. Learn more about SEL and teaching with art in MoMA's new Coursera Specialization: coursera.org/specializations/teaching-with-artEnroll in MoMA's other courses about art and design on Coursera: coursera.org/momaSubscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join 0:00–0:47 A social worker's intro0:47–2:15 What is SEL?2:15–3:13 Art as a tool for SEL3:13–5:34 Lesson 1: Connecting emotions to Monet's "Waterlilies"5:34–8:18 Lesson 2: Perspective-taking and Kirchner's "Street, Dresden"8:18–10:27 Lesson 3: Social awareness and Kingman's "Los Chucchidores"10:27–12:17 Integrating SEL into your lifeThe comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. The Adobe Foundation is proud to support equity, learning, and creativity at MoMA. #socialemotionallearning #SEL #socialemotional #arteducation #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
Trailblazer of sustainable architecture | BUILT ECOLOGIES: ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENT The Museum of Modern Art 2024-01-08 | For our final episode in the Built Ecologies series, we turn to “green” architect Emilio Ambasz. Renowned for buildings that incorporate and frame luscious greenery, Ambasz here explores his lifelong commitment to creating architecture that harmoniously blends with nature and its surroundings. The "Green over Gray" slogan is emblematic of Ambasz’s architectural approach. Rather than imposing the structure on the landscape, or seeing nature as an enemy, the “landscape frames the house”—it is impossible to disentangle one from the other.Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #sustainablearchitecture #greenarchitecture #architecture #sustainability #emilioambasz #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
Photography as immersive experience The Museum of Modern Art 2023-12-27 | How can disconnected images tell one story about dark histories? An-My Lê’s “Fourteen Views” is an immersive installation of a series of photographs taken in different years and places. The circular panorama connects idealized landscapes, all of which are maintained through military and colonial means. Hear how an archivist and exhibition photographer connect these entangled histories to their personal experiences of being Black and from the South and first generation Filipino-American, respectively. “The artist wants to remind us that memory flows, memory is constant, history is constant, and those things are shared.”Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #immersiveexperience #blackandwhitephotography #panorama #darkhistory #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
Egg | MoMA R&D Salon 45 | MoMA LIVE The Museum of Modern Art 2023-12-05 | The egg is a universal symbol of life across cultures and religions––and then of hope, purity, prosperity, and engineered perfection. The simplicity of both the object and the word hides a wondrous complexity of meanings and values. As a food versatile in its uses and rich in flavor while also being nutritionally lavish, the chicken egg finds its place both in meals of decadence and of scarcity. At the global scale, it is so fundamental to every table as to have called for massive industrial production, with great ethical and ecological consequences. As a design feat, its shell is fragile yet strong, engineered to be broken by a hatchling from within but not by an adult that sits atop. More broadly, the egg cell is the progenitor for all forms of animal life, and is thus a symbolic center for many contentious debates around motherhood, genetics, and the question of what constitutes life. The egg even further complicates our notions of time itself––see the pervasive chicken-or-egg dilemma, for instance––as an object that paradoxically becomes its own cause and effect. And these are only a few angles of approach. With its complexities and contradictions, the egg can lead to an examination of some of society’s most ancient and most urgent quandaries. These are some of the questions we will ask: With so much of the food we eat relying on the ingredient of eggs, what are the potential consequences of their scarcity? Can the egg be a tool to lift people out of poverty? Can they ever become scarce? What are the many manifestations of the egg as a semiotic gateway? What can we learn from the ways in which the use of eggs changes across cultures? What can engineering and material science learn from the egg shell? What can nature teach us about efficiency in design? What is perfection? How is motherhood defined? Can the value of an egg cell be defined, and who should benefit from it? Is there a point at which human intervention in the process of reproduction becomes unethical? What is the role of the egg in the narration of evolution? And in the process of transformation?The evening will commence with a brief introduction by Paola Antonelli, followed by equally brief presentations by – here in alphabetical order:Roger Benson: is the Macaulay Curator and the Curator-in-Charge of Fossil Amphibians, Reptiles, and Birds and Fossil Plants in the Division of Paleontology at the Natural History Museum in New York.Camille Henrot: is a French artist who lives and works in New York City. Over the past twenty years, she had developed a critically acclaimed practice, encompassing drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and film.Lori Gruen: is the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University where she coordinates Wesleyan Animal Studies. She is also Professor of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Science in Society.Camari Mick: is the Executive Pastry Chef at The Musket Room, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Manhattan’s Nolita neighborhood, and Executive Pastry Chef/Partner at the newly opened Raf’s, a French and Italian bakery, restaurant, and all-day café.The presentations will be accompanied by the screening of a series of short videos cut specifically for Salon 45 by: Tim Birkhead, Chow and Lin, Amander Clark, Teman Evans, Ashanté Reese, Emelyn Rude, Mary Caswell Stoddard, and Nicola Twilley. MoMA R&D is made possible by Allianz.Subscribe for our latest videos and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribeExplore our collection online: http://mo.ma/artPlan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visitCommit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/joinThe comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speakers alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist.#design #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
Can you have two hearts? | A poet remembers her New York The Museum of Modern Art 2023-11-30 | Puerto Rican poet Elisabet Velasquez performs an excerpt of her new poem about the complexity of dual identity, inspired by Papo Colo’s provocative screenprint “Every American Has Two Hearts.” Follow Elisabet on a walk through of her childhood neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn, as she grapples with “what it means to be American and Puerto Rican at the same time” and how that has informed her approach to creativity.Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #puertorico #boricua #brooklyn #spokenword #poetry #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
The making of Chocolate Room | Ed Ruscha | HOW TO SEE The Museum of Modern Art 2023-11-10 | How do you screen print with chocolate? Go behind-the-scenes to follow the preparation for the largest iteration of Ed Ruscha's "Chocolate Room" in the exhibition "Ed Ruscha Now / Then." We follow La Paloma Fine Arts, Inc., the family-owned fabrication business who has worked with Ruscha for decades, from testing printing techniques in Los Angeles to setting up a delicious-smelling print shop in the galleries at MoMA.Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #EdRuscha #screenprinting #chocolateart #makingof #chocolate #behindthescenes #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
Can you imagine yourself as the subject? | Wifredo Lams Mother and Child The Museum of Modern Art 2023-10-27 | What compels you to pause in front of a work of art? Wifredo Lam’s “Mother and Child” stopped this artist and educator, intrigued at first by the lack of figurative features. Coming from a Mexican-American Catholic background, José Camacho found that the ambiguity offered an opening for others to insert themselves into the artwork. “That’s what I like to explore in my art… shifting perspective so that those who don’t have power in our world are the ones that are seen as powerful.”Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #mexicanamerican #motherandchild #wifredolam #catholicism #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
Team Sports | MoMA R&D Salon 44 | MoMA LIVE The Museum of Modern Art 2023-10-18 | A team is distinct from other social bonds as the unifying element is the shared pursuit of a common goal, whether it be winning a World Cup, achieving a scientific breakthrough, or winning an election. Often, however, the relationship between teammates, their leaders, and their supporters extends far beyond the mere pursuit of a goal. A team quickly becomes a microcosm of broader societal phenomena, as issues such as power, gender, race, sexuality, and class come into play. Individual vs. collective, collaboration vs. competition, offense vs. defense, success vs. failure, inclusion vs. exclusion––when we become part of a team, we learn to negotiate a number of contrasting conditions. Teams rely on complex algorithms and alchemies and when properly designed, expertly trained, and wholeheartedly inspired, they are greater than the sum of their parts. This Salon explores the ways in which they can simultaneously function as mirrors of society and means to change it for the better.These are some of the questions we will ask: How does participation in required team sports affect a child’s development in both positive and negative ways? How do team sports reinforce societal and gendered norms? In what ways can they instead be used to challenge those norms? What does it mean to be a good team player, within and without sports? How do our experiences as a part of teams impact our subsequent social relations? Should we adopt a more team-centric outlook in our daily lives, prioritizing collective over individual goals? How does the participation in or the watching of sports contribute to the formation of our individual identities? The evening will commence with a brief introduction by Paola Antonelli, followed by equally brief presentations by – here in alphabetical order:Tracie Canada: is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and is affiliated with the Sports & Race Project at Duke University. As a cultural anthropologist and ethnographer, she researches and teaches about race, sport, kinship, and the performing body with a focus on the lived experiences of Black football players.Simon Critchley: is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research working in areas such as continental philosophy, philosophy and literature, psychoanalysis, ethics, and political theory, among others. One of his most recent books include What We Think About When We Think About Football.Gabriel Fontana: is an independent designer and creative director investigating how our bodies propagate, internalize, and reproduce social norms with particular attention to how they can be unlearned through new forms of pedagogy, activities, and games that deconstruct group dynamics.Bobbito Garcia: is a radio host, filmmaker, and basketball enthusiast who has worked across multiple urban movements. A former professional basketball player in Puerto Rico, he currently produces his basketball tournament Full Court 21 in four continents.Collette V. Smith: is the NFL’s first black female coach as well as the NY Jets’ first female coach. She formerly played football professionally for the NY Sharks. She has since founded Believe N You, Inc., which strives to empower young African American women across the country.The presentations will be accompanied by the screening of a series of short videos cut specifically for Salon 43 by: Ben Carrington, Brenda Elsey, Sergio Galaz-García, Christopher J. Philips, Maggie L. Popkin, Sayuri Gurthie Shimizu, Carlin Wing, and Emma Witkowski.The presentations will be accompanied by the screening of a series of short videos cut specifically for Salon 43 by:MoMA R&D is made possible by Allianz.Subscribe for our latest videos and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribeExplore our collection online: http://mo.ma/artPlan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visitCommit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/joinThe comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speakers alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist.#design #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernartSubscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
A master printer makes his last print The Museum of Modern Art 2023-10-17 | What makes a 500-year-old printing process new? Master printer and publisher Jacob Samuel has brought etchings—prints created by transferring ink from a metal plate to paper—into the 21st century through collaborations with more than 60 contemporary artists. In this video, we filmed Samuel making his last print. As he inks, hand wipes, and rolls his final print through the press, he reflects on his philosophy. “My goal is to leave no fingerprints,” he says. All you see is the artist’s work. I’m just another pencil. I’m just another brush. But I want the pencil to be sharpened really well. I want the brush to be sable. And to do that and be completely spontaneous, I trust the materials.”Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #etching #printmaking #printing #printingprocess #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
Traces | MoMA R&D Salon 43 | MoMA LIVE The Museum of Modern Art 2023-09-20 | Traces considers the markings, echoes, or remnants that record the fleeting existence of an event, thing, or person. In most cases, the traces we value are those that can be verified and validated, and thereby formally documented within established systems of legitimization. With recent advances in artificial intelligence especially, what was previously considered to be evidence can no longer evade our rightful caution and suspicion. A photograph, for example, cannot automatically be assumed to be a factual and objective documentation of a live event—and now neither can a voice recording, video, or signature. Under this crisis of truth, we must reevaluate and reconsider what traces we can trust and what knowledge we can depend on.Some of the questions we will ask: What can previously overlooked traces tell us about past people, places, things, and events? What new forms of knowledge can be produced by paying attention to those traces that we previously looked past? How must we rethink the representation we trust to hold truth in the current age of falsification? What new literacies must we develop to become more attuned to the latent yet unseen traces around us? Does every object, event, or person leave a trace? How can we learn to see the unseen? Can knowledge about the traces left behind be more impactful than knowledge about the thing itself? How can we become more aware of the traces we leave behind, whether they are social, emotional, environmental, ecological, etc? The evening will commence with a brief introduction by Paola Antonelli, followed by equally brief presentations by – here in alphabetical order:Crystal Z Campbell: is a multidisciplinary artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer of African American, Filipino, and Chinese descent. Campbell engages with material, archival, and sonic traces of the witness through film/video, live performance, installation, sound, painting and texts.Sarah Johnson: is a biologist, geochemist, astronomer and planetary scientist whose research is driven by the underlying goal of understanding the presence and preservation of biosignatures within planetary environments. Susan Meiselas: is a documentary photographer and the President of the Magnum Foundation whose work constantly considers the challenging relationship between photographer and subject, and the relationship of images to memory and history.Jorge Otero-Pailos: is the Director and Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, and an architect, artist, and theorist specializing in experimental forms of preservation employing the material residues of our modernity to render their invisible meanings visible.Christiaan Triebert: is a journalist with The New York Times’ Visual Investigations team, which combines traditional reporting with digital sleuthing and open source methods. He was a senior investigator and lead trainer at the investigative group Bellingcat and worked throughout Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. MoMA Research & Development provides information and critical tools to identify and explore new directions and opportunities for MoMA and the broader museum field. Learn more: http://momarnd.moma.org/salons/.The presentations will be accompanied by the screening of a series of short videos cut specifically for Salon 43 by: Katja Heitmann, Stefan Helmreich, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Dragan Espenschied, Christina Varvia, and Susan Schuppli. MoMA R&D is made possible by Allianz.Subscribe for our latest videos and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribeExplore our collection online: http://mo.ma/artPlan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visitCommit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/joinThe comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speakers alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist.#design #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
The Dada drawing that was a light switch for Ed Ruscha The Museum of Modern Art 2023-09-08 | In art school Ed Ruscha was struck by an unusual drawing by Dada artist Johannes Theodor Baargeld that he developed a "mystical connection" to. He made a cold call to MoMA to see if he could come see it in person and, surprisingly, got through. Hear how the encounter went on to inspire his own work's "controlled disorder."Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Learn more about this work: moma.org/collection/works/35886 Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #EdRuscha #dada #drawing #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
Afrofuturism in sculpture: How Wangechi Mutu addresses African diaspora | UNIQLO ArtSpeaks The Museum of Modern Art 2023-08-28 | How can Afrofuturism in art inspire new futures and reclaim dark histories? Watch how a filmmaker interprets Wangechi Mutu’s, “MamaRay,” a lifesize sculpture—half woman, half manta ray— as a call to legacies of the transatlantic slave trade and lives lost at sea. “What would it mean to have a new goddess figure that is a protector? “Mutu’s sculpture of a mystical hybrid being evokes feelings of hope and protection— and inspires new creative expression. Through super8 footage and home videos, this filmmaker mines his personal memories to ask, “Artists are always responding to what's happening in the world, but how do we respond in a way that's engaging folks and not alienating them?”Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #afrofuturism #super8 #WangechiMutu #africandiaspora #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
Mary Miss collective vision for social change | BUILT ECOLOGIES: ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENT The Museum of Modern Art 2023-08-15 | "Networks are what it's all about," says Mary Miss, Known for her interdisciplinary work between sculpture, architecture, and landscape design, Miss has been a longtime advocate for how art can play a role in addressing contemporary social issues that affect our environment. In the latest episode of our Built Ecologies series, Miss tells us that “place is her medium;” she sees art as key in helping understand the world around us.Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribeExplore our collection online: http://mo.ma/artPlan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visitCommit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/joinThe comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #marymiss #architecture #ecology #landscapedesign #art #feminism #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
How Ana Mendietas work re-establishes a connection with the Earth | UNIQLO ARTSPEAKS The Museum of Modern Art 2023-07-21 | What does it mean for humans to leave their trace on the land, and how permanent is it? Ana Mendieta's powerful earth work "Nile Born" takes the form of a human silhouette covered in sand from the Nile. In this video, Eva Lavranou contemplates the work's fragility in the context of her upbringing in Greece, and the inevitable "collaboration" of the body and the earth.Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #anamendieta #earthwork #siluetas #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
How to use watercolor: still life tutorial | IN THE STUDIO The Museum of Modern Art 2023-06-26 | Learn how to make a watercolor painting like Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Cézanne, and other artists in this new episode of our tutorial series IN THE STUDIO. Artist Jia Sung teaches two different techniques: "wet on wet" for more improvisational work and a drier approach for still life painting and observational work. See how she uses tube and pan paints, different types of brushes, and looks at works in MoMA's collection for inspiration.Works referenced:Georgia O'Keeffe. "Evening Star No. III." 1917Georgia O'Keeffe. "Train at Night in the Desert." 1916Romare Bearden. "Untitled (Brenda)." 1984Paul Cézanne. "Mont Sainte-Victoire." 1902–06Marlene Dumas. "Chlorosis (Love sick)." 19940:00: Introduction0:54: Tube paints01:12: "Wet on wet" technique01:49: Georgia O'Keeffe's watercolor04:32: Pan paints05:59: Still life with drier approach07:49: Types of brushes9:38: Cézanne watercolor11:19: Incorporating "wet on wet"11:53: Fine line work12:25: Georgia O'Keeffe's watercolor13:51: FinishingSubscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #watercolor #watercolortutorial #watercolorpainting #howtowatercolor #paintingtutorial #stilllife #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
How a lonely kid found kinship in the Rainbow Flag | UNIQLO ARTSPEAKS The Museum of Modern Art 2023-06-16 | We take a closer look at the history of Gilbert Baker’s original design of the "Rainbow Flag," and how it stands as an enduring symbol of hope. "One of the things that you can read from the flag is that it's from nature, and there's nothing unnatural about being queer," MoMA educator George Benson explains. "I always say to people that queer history is as old as human history because we've never not been here. And when you're feeling quite isolated and alone, this flag is a beacon."Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #rainbowflag #prideflag #pride #lgbtqia #queerhistory #pridemonth #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
Good | MoMA R&D Salon 42 | MoMA LIVE The Museum of Modern Art 2023-06-10 | Salon 42 is focused on good, a noun that is very hard to define. Common phrases such as “for the common good” or “towards the greater good” mean well, but fail to specify for whom and in what form such good is pursued. Good is perhaps best described through this ambiguity and multiplicity, with its only constant being the fact that across time and space, it has consistently meant different things to different people and groups. As we reflect on the past five years, which have brought to the fore with renewed sharpness the systemic issues that afflict our planet, the need to discuss the idea of good is impellent.These are some of the questions we will ask: Who decides what ”good” is? What does it mean to “do good”? How is it evaluated and measured? How have conceptions of good changed across time and place? What, if anything, has remained consistent? Who is in the position to do good? Who has the obligation to do it? To what degree is the sense of good innate versus learned? How much variation exists from person to person? Given the impossibility of a universal good, how encompassing can it get? Can there be an act of good that transcends class, race, age, species, or beyond?The presentations will be accompanied by the screening of a series of short videos cut specifically for Salon 42.MoMA Research & Development provides information and critical tools to identify and explore new directions and opportunities for MoMA and the broader museum field. Learn more: http://momarnd.moma.org/salons/.MoMA R&D is made possible by Allianz.Subscribe for our latest videos and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribeExplore our collection online: http://mo.ma/artPlan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visitCommit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/joinThe comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speakers alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist.#design #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
A mysterious memorial to Malcolm X | UNIQLO ARTSPEAKS The Museum of Modern Art 2023-05-26 | Ford Scholar Brent Hayes Edwards provides a deeper look into how Melvin Edwards’s welded sculpture "The Lifted X" captures the turbulence of the civil rights movement in 1965 and memorializes the Black nationalist leader. He asks, "What does it mean for a work this abstract, this opaque, to be a portrait, or to be a memorial?"Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #malcolmx #melvinedwards #welding #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
When photography conservation is detective work | CONSERVATION STORIES The Museum of Modern Art 2023-05-19 | Watch a video about conservators and scientists trying to save an artwork from itself.Rosângela Rennó’s Wedding Landscape (1996) is made up of layers of large sheets of plexiglass, to which the artist glued strips of negatives she retrieved from a wedding photography studio in Havana in 1994. Before the work went on view in Chosen Memories, a survey of Latin American contemporary art currently on view at MoMA, our photography conservators made a routine assessment of the work’s condition. What they found—and the best way to treat it—turned out to be anything but routine.“Materials of film are generally held in an archive. So they’re typically not put on display,” explains Craig Kamrath, a photography conservation fellow, “But in this instance, the film is what you’re there to look at, these strips of negatives.”Photography conservator Lee Ann Daffner was baffled: “When I first saw this work, I didn’t know what to think, because we had so many questions.” For one, there was a white, powdery substance appearing throughout the layers of plexiglass. Was it mold, or the dreaded “plexi disease” that can occur when a piece of plexiglass abrades, or something else? Daffner and Kamrath worked with conservation scientist Catherine H. Stephens and conservation science fellow Kyna Biggs to take samples and analyze them. But then another problem presented itself: these negatives, made of cellulose acetate, have a limited shelf life before they begin degrading. Thorough detective work needed to be done to determine the age of the negatives and how much acetic acid they were off-gassing, a sign of their decay. And was the plexiglass helping or hurting their condition?“We’re right on the doorstep with this artwork,” Kamrath said. The discoveries are constantly unfolding in our latest episode of Conservation Stories.Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #photography #conservation #behindthescenes #latinamericanart #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
Performance in Reality | MoMA R&D Salon 41 | MoMA LIVE The Museum of Modern Art 2023-05-10 | Salon 41 is focused on performance, an act which implies a distinction between those who are performing and those who are watching, and exists in a constant state of evaluation—whether literally in a workplace review, in political proceedings, or even in the form of likes and views. As we go about our daily lives, we are constantly enacting performances of self, adapting them to fit the nuances of each audience we encounter. If theaters have not been the only sites for performance for centuries, the advent of digital technology has further displaced the performer and their audience across time and space. This salon’s ambition is to examine performance’s contemporary manifestations and provide the critical distance we need to understand its now permanent omnipresence.CORRECTION: At 3:30 the correct attribution for the artwork is: "Sun&Sea" by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė.The evening will commence with a brief introduction by Paola Antonelli, followed by equally brief presentations by – here in alphabetical order:Jane Coaston: was the host of “The Argument” podcast, a politics reporter at Vox, among other accomplishments, and is now an opinion writer for the New York Times.Aimee Meredith Cox: is a critical ethnographer, writer, movement artist, and Associate Professor of Anthropology at NYU.Joan Kee: is a professor in the History of Art at the University of Michigan and a current Ford Scholar at the Museum of Modern Art.Jaamil Olawale Kosoko is a multi-spirited Nigerian American author, performance artist, and curator of Yoruba and Natchez descent originally from Detroit, MI.Richard Sennett: is an esteemed sociologist and author who currently serves as Senior Advisor to the United Nations on its Program on Climate Change and Cities.Barbara Tannenbaum: is the Distinguished Senior Lecturer in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University, where she teaches a course in Persuasive Communication.The presentations will be accompanied by the screening of a series of short videos cut specifically for Salon 41.MoMA Research & Development provides information and critical tools to identify and explore new directions and opportunities for MoMA and the broader museum field. Learn more: http://momarnd.moma.org/salons/.MoMA R&D is made possible by Allianz.Subscribe for our latest videos and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribeExplore our collection online: http://mo.ma/artPlan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visitCommit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/joinThe comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speakers alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist.#performance #design #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
How do we balance sustainability and progress as we move toward a better future? | UNIQLO ARTSPEAKS The Museum of Modern Art 2023-04-21 | Jean Savitsky, MoMA’s director of Real Estate and Sustainability, examines how Charles Sheeler’s painting "American Landscape" captures a particular moment in American manufacturing, and highlights the relationship between progress and the environment.In the online edition of MoMA’s ArtSpeaks program, we invite staff members, artists, and special guests to share personal impressions of an artwork in the galleries.Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #sustainability #earthday #earthmonth #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
How to make collage | IN THE STUDIO The Museum of Modern Art 2023-04-16 | In this tutorial, learn how to make collage like artists Romare Bearden, Hannah Höch, and others. Artist Helina Metaferia demonstrates various techniques, including how to source imagery, cutting, composition, pasting, and finishing.00:00 Intro to collage01:26 Sourcing imagery02:41 Cutting techniques06:12 Choosing a support07:33 Composition and cutting13:46 Pasting and adhesives17:09 Finishing and incorporating drawingSubscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Learn more about the techniques and artists in this video:Collage: moma.org/collection/terms/collage Romare Bearden: moma.org/artists/412Hannah Höch: moma.org/artists/2675Georges Braque: moma.org/artists/744 Juan Gris: moma.org/artists/2349 Howardena Pindell: moma.org/artists/4625Anne Ryan: moma.org/artists/5097Carmen Winant: moma.org/artists/68674 Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #howto #collage #tutorial #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart #demonstration
Immersive architecture of aquariums | BUILT ECOLOGIES: ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENT The Museum of Modern Art 2023-04-03 | Our video series on architecture and environment continues with a look at how the New England Aquarium's architect made an "aquatic museum.""The aquarium is a dark magic box that would have power—theatrical impact, emotional experience," says Peter Chermayeff, "and that could be immersive or that would surround you and make you feel you were in a world underwater. An aquatic museum."The Giant Ocean Tank occupied the building’s center; it was surrounded by a series of concrete columns that acted as a supporting structure. The columns were bound to a spiral ramp, which created a compression ring to hold the massive volume of water. Spaced about five feet apart, towering glass windows formed niches that gave visitors the sensation of having a private viewing space. Illuminated with dim lighting, the Giant Ocean Tank orchestrates an experience of transporting a visitor to a magical world.Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #aquarium #newenglandaquarium #architecture #environment #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
How Matisse inspired an unexpected change in direction | HENRI MATISSE | UNIQLO ARTSPEAKS The Museum of Modern Art 2023-03-17 | In our latest ArtSpeaks episode, Eana Kim, the Marcia and Jan Vilcek Fellow in the Department of Paintings and Sculpture chose Henri Matisse's "Dance (I)" because his work led her life in an unexpected direction."What really struck me was Matisse’s journey from mastering all the academic skills to unlearning everything to create his own art," Kim says. "He really tried to dig into and explore the fundamental elements, like forms and colors. He was looking into something more essential to create something pure. I needed to follow that path."In the online edition of MoMA’s ArtSpeaks program, we invite staff members, artists, and special guests to share personal impressions of an artwork in the galleries. Here, curator Eana Kim examines Matisse’s iconic expression of pleasure and joy.Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #matisse #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
AI Art: How artists are using and confronting machine learning | HOW TO SEE LIKE A MACHINE The Museum of Modern Art 2023-03-15 | For the latest episode of our How to See series, we spoke with three artists—Kate Crawford, Trevor Paglen, and Refik Anadol—who engage with the ways that AI and machine learning algorithms are demanding new approaches to artmaking.“I think we are at a crucial inflection point right now,” says Kate Crawford, professor, artist, and author of "Atlas of AI." “I've been calling it the generative turn. It's a moment where what we previously understood as how everything from illustration to film directing to publishing works is allabout to change very rapidly.”Trevor Paglen has been mining data sets that are used to train the machine learning systems that surveil our daily lives. He investigates the dangerous oversimplification inherent to these processes and the ethics of the intentions behind them. “Artists, what we bring to the party is thousands…of years of thinking about what the hell an image is,” he says. “The kind of engineering computer science tradition does not have that. This is a place where artists are bringing voices to the conversation that I think are quite urgent.”It’s in that spirit that Refik Anadol sees AI as a tool available to artists. His interest is in machine learning algorithms that aren’t strictly monitored by humans. For Unsupervised, he asked how a machine, if it had only MoMA’s collection data for knowledge, would parse the history of modern art on its own. And, as an autodidact, what kind of art would it create?These three prescient thinkers are joined by curators Paola Antonelli and Michelle Kuo, who give historical context to the existential questions at play in this emerging landscape and share insightsinto where art might bring AI next.00:00 How artists respond to recent breakthroughs in AI02:11 When AI becomes the the artist05:26 How we train AI: ethical implications08:51 The conceptual limits of machine learning systems10:09 Art history lesson (the fear of technology is not new)12:18 Where can artists take AI next?Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribeExplore our collection online: http://mo.ma/artPlan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visitCommit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/joinThe comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #aiart #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #ai #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum#modernart
A behind-the-scenes #timelapse peek at a major installation of media art The Museum of Modern Art 2023-03-01 | Stand inside an "experience machine" conceived as a prototype for a global telecommunications system in Signals, opening March 5. In 1965 Stan VanDerBeek built his extraordinary "Movie-Drome": a spherical dome structure in which viewers could walk or sit or lie down while high-speed overlapping projections flooded the interior, enveloping viewers in a cascade of images of overwhelming "visual velocity," as the artist called it.See the piece reconstructed at full scale for the first time in #signals: How Video Transformed the World, a major exhibition bringing together over six decades of media work from the #MoMACollection, opening March 5.Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart #StanVanDerBeek #videoart #mediaart #signals #behindthescenes #timelapse
The moody magic of a long exposure photograph | Ming Smith | UNIQLO ArtSpeaks The Museum of Modern Art 2023-02-17 | Photography curator Oluremi Onabanjo examines Smith’s 1991 "Invisible Man, Somewhere, Everywhere," a poignant image from this series inspired by Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel "Invisible Man."In the online edition of MoMA’s ArtSpeaks program, we invite staff members, artists, and special guests to share personal impressions of an artwork in the galleries. Explore our collection work by work as we release a new video each month.Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #mingsmith #ralphellison #invisibleman #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
What Frida Kahlos style choices mean to a fashion historian The Museum of Modern Art 2023-01-13 | Fashion historian Raissa Bretaña examines Frida Kahlo’s 1940 "Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair" and how Kahlo used her knowledge of fashion to express grief over her divorce from artist Diego Rivera.In MoMA’s ArtSpeaks program, we invite staff members, artists, and special guests to share personal impressions of an artwork in the galleries.Explore our collection work by work as we release a new video each month. Watch the videos and then come visit the works in person at MoMA!You can also hear more about this work with MoMA audio.Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart #fridakahlo #fashionhistory #selfportraits
How would you build a city? Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani on SimCity | UNIQLO ArtSpeaks The Museum of Modern Art 2022-12-23 | Best-selling author and founder of Girls Who Code, Reshma Saujani, talks about the realities of building a virtual world in SimCity and how video games can be much more than entertainment.Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #artforall #museumofmodernart #moma #girlswhocode #SimCity
Recovering Indigenous Hawaiian Architecture | BUILT ECOLOGIES: ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENT The Museum of Modern Art 2022-12-13 | Our Built Ecologies series continues with a look at Hawaiʻi Non-Linear, architects who are attempting to recover an Indigenous Honolulu. By dismantling the urban transformations Honolulu has undergone, architects Sean Connelly and Dominic Leong help to envision alternative futures for how this land could be used and, more importantly, for Hawaiians, to reclaim these places for the practice of Indigenous knowledge. This process of reclamation includes sacred and cultural sites that are buried under current and former military forts in Diamond Head, Punchbowl crater, and Fort DeRussy beach.As Connelly and Leong emphasize, “The role of the architect is to help facilitate these visions rather than impose a vision upon a place.” With no distinction between architecture and environment in native Hawaiian culture, “you might even think of the entire island as architecture—the greatest building you can ever imagine.”Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
Afrofuturism and The First Woman | Wangechi Mutu | UNIQLO ARTSPEAKS The Museum of Modern Art 2022-11-18 | Sheldon Gooch, a curatorial fellow for the Department of Drawings and Prints, finds his childhood love of science fiction expressed in Wangechi Mutu’s use of mixed media in the print portfolio "Eve."Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: moma.org/join The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist. #WangechiMutu #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart
