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Arts A Work in Progress: An Evening with James Mangold Tuesday, May 23, 7:00 p.m. Program, 9:00 p.m. After-Party
Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection . MOMA, Contemporary Galleries, second floor, May 3–July 10, 2006 This exhibition includes more than one hundred paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints selected from Edward R. Broida’s recent gift to the Museum of 175 works of art. Dating from the 1960s through the present, works by thirty-eight European and American artists are on view. The Edward R. Broida gift has dramatically enhanced MoMA’s current holdings of many artists and has introduced important works by several artists new to the MoMA collection. In the exhibition, monographic galleries focus on artists whose work Broida collected in extraordinary depth, such as Philip Guston, Vija Celmins, Ken Price, and Christopher Wilmarth. Other galleries juxtapose clusters of works by various artists. The exhibition also provides a rare opportunity for the presentation of Rhapsody, Jennifer Bartlett’s groundbreaking multipanel painting of 1976. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue. Organized by Ann Temkin, Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art.
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Since 2000: Printmaking Now Contemporary printmaking is flourishing, with artists turning to new digital approaches, renewing age-old techniques, and printing on and with alternative materials and tools. Today artists use a myriad of printed formats, from the traditional intimacy of the singular sheet or book, to expansive multipart projects and installations that run floor to ceiling and wall to wall. Since 2000: Printmaking Now demonstrates the vitality of current printmaking by showcasing works created since 2000 and acquired by the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books. The exhibition highlights projects never before seen at the Museum, by young artists new to printmaking as well as by more established figures. Organized by Judy Hecker, Assistant Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art.
Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Part Two The second installation in a two-part exhibition of drawings from the collection, Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Part Two features works from the late nineteenth century to the present day. The exhibition continues the exploration of the visual relationships that can exist between artworks by offering a view of modern drawing based exclusively on the visual characteristics of the works themselves. The curatorial premise is that the meaning of a work depends not only on its own internal structure, but also on its position in relation to other works of art, to which it need not be related chronologically. The first installation presented works under the headings of Faces, Movement, and Tectonics; this second installation features the groupings Digital, Figures, and Constructions. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue, to be published by MoMA this summer. Organized by Luis Pérez-Oramas, Adjunct Curator, Department of Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition is supported by Gonzalo Parodi.
Douglas Gordon: Timeline Douglas Gordon (Scottish, b. 1966) visualizes, pictures, and "sculpts" time in many of his works. In 1993, Gordon presented a version of Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho, projected onto a translucent screen and slowed down to a duration of twenty-four hours. Gordon’s 24 Hour Psycho, which is included in this exhibition, marked the beginning of the artist’s ongoing method of altering, monumentalizing, and alienating viewers' common understandings of the moving picture. Douglas Gordon: Timeline focuses on the film-related work of his oeuvre and his direct references to Andy Warhol, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, and other cornerstones of film history. The exhibition ranges from a large-scale projection of an elephant in Play Dead (2003) and direct references to Andy Warhol’s Sleep (1963) in Film Noir (Perspire) (1995) to the phenomenon of superimposed visuals in Between Darkness and Light (After William Blake) (1997). Organized by Klaus Biesenbach, Curator, Department of Film and Media, The Museum of Modern Art.
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The
public is invited to join the museum for A Work In Progress: An
Evening with James Mangold, the fifth annual film benefit celebrating
a distinctive directorial voice in cinema. This year’s event also
marks the Department of Film and Media's acquisition of James
Mangold’s feature films: Heavy (1995), Cop Land
(1997), Girl, Interrupted (1999), Kate and Leopold
(2001), Identity (2003), and the Oscar-nominated Walk the
Line (2005). James Mangold and MoMA Trustee Anna Deavere Smith
will join us for a one-hour dialogue about the director's career and
his thoughts on the art of filmmaking. The conversation will be
highlighted with clips from Mr. Mangold’s films and from those that
have inspired him. A star-studded after-party will follow the
discussion