To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection
July 2002–September 6, 2004

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The Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest collections of modern art in the world. Since the Museum's founding in 1929, this collection has grown to number over thirty-five hundred objects, of which only a fraction can be displayed at any one time. The inaugural installation of the collection at MoMA QNS presents more than seventy-five of the Museum's most iconic and best-loved works along with works by more contemporary American and European artists. Highlights of the exhibition include Pablo Picasso's Night Fishing at Antibes (1939), Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942–43), and Roy Lichtenstein's Interior with Mobile (1992).

Organized by Kynaston McShine, Chief Curator at Large, Department of Painting and Sculpture.

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Sculpture from The Museum of Modern Art at The New York Botanical Garden
April 25, 2002–August 31, 2003
The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York

Some of the best-loved icons of modern sculpture, usually on view in The Museum of Modern Art's Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, will be exhibited at The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx while MoMA's Sculpture Garden is temporarily closed during its Building Project. The exhibition includes 15 works from the Museum's collection, which will be displayed in the courtyards of the historic Enid A. Haupt Conservatory at The New York Botanical Garden.

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Masterworks of German Expressionism
November 14, 2002–April 14, 2003

This exhibition of approximately twenty prints highlights the work of several artists who participated in the German Expressionist movement during the first quarter of the twentieth century. It includes examples by members of the Expressionist group Brücke, such as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, and Max Pechstein, who sought to heighten the emotional impact of their subjects through sharp distortions of form and color. Also featured are works by artists active after World War I, such as Max Beckmann and Käthe Kollwitz, who found that the bold, graphic use of black-and-white printmaking perfectly suited their stark, socially critical imagery. Printmaking was of central importance to the Expressionists, as the artists used it to communicate their ideas to the broadest possible audience. The installation, which includes several recent acquisitions, is drawn entirely from the Museum's exceptionally strong collection of German Expressionist prints and illustrated books.

Organized by Starr Figura, Assistant Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books.

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Coisa Linda (Something Beautiful)
November 21, 2002–January 13, 2003

The first in a series of special-edition publications pairing artists and writers, the artist’s book Coisa Linda (Something Beautiful), created by Beatriz Milhazes (b. 1960, Brazil), juxtaposes ornamental abstract images with poetic lyrics from some of the most influential Brazilian songwriters of the past 100 years. Known for her colorful and exuberant abstractions executed in a variety of mediums, Milhazes created Coisa Linda to explore the connection between music and image, specifically drawing influences from the sights and sounds of her native Rio de Janeiro. The forty-four-page, twelve-inch-square book features a hand-printed cover, thirty two screenprints hand-printed in forty colors, and a unique collage assembled by the artist, juxtaposed with lyrics from twelve traditional and contemporary Brazilian songs that inspired her. The exhibition includes copies of the book, along with a selection of pages and an original collage. A limited edition of 200 copies was published by The Museum of Modern Art on December 5.

For further information or to purchase a copy, please write to Kathleen Tunney at The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019; or e-mail at coisalinda@moma.org, telephone (212) 708-9430.

Organized by May Castleberry, Editor of Contemporary Editions, The Museum of Modern Art

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The Changing of the Avant-Garde: Visionary Architectural Drawings
from the Howard Gilman Collection
October 24, 2002–January 6, 2003

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To celebrate the generous gift to the Museum of one of the foremost collections of modern architectural drawings in the world, a selection of more than 100 of them will be on display at MoMA QNS. The Howard Gilman Foundation's collection, which spans from the late 1920s to the 1970s and comprises some 150 artworks, includes some of the most famous utopian drawings of the twentieth century, such as Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House project of 1927 and Ron Herron's spectacular Cities-Moving of 1966. Among the many architects whose work is featured in the collection are Rem Koolhaas and Zoe Zenghelis, Cedric Price, Arata Isozaki, and Ettore Sottsass. The acquisition of this collection will prompt the creation within the Department of Architecture and Design of The Howard Gilman Archive, which will incorporate the visionary architectural drawings already part of MoMA's collection and future like-minded acquisitions.

Organized by Terence Riley, Chief Curator, Department of Architecture and Design.

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Drawing Now: Eight Propositions
October 17, 2002–January 6, 2003

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This exhibition showcases over two hundred recent works on paper, all carefully executed and highly finished, by twenty-six artists from Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The small and large drawings are executed in a wide range of mediums and include series rarely seen in their entirety and newly commissioned, site-specific wall projects. Some show affinities with illustration, fashion, or comic strips; others are closer to industrial and commercial renderings; still others take ideas from the traditions of ornament. In technique, medium, size, scale, and imagery, the drawings are broadly diverse, but they share an impulse: the art explored in this exhibition is not sealed inside the realms of aesthetics and theory but refers to the languages of the life around us, communicating information, telling stories, creating scenarios, and conjuring newly imagined worlds.

Organized by Laura Hoptman, Guest Curator. This exhibition is supported by the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc., The Friends of Contemporary Drawing of The Museum of Modern Art, and Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg. Additional funding is provided by Patricia and Morris Orden, the Mondriaan Foundation, Dianne Wallace and Lowell Schulman, Pro Helvetia, Dorothy Bandier, Hilary Jane Rubenstein, The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, and The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art. The accompanying publication is made possible by an anonymous donor. The accompanying educational programs are made possible by BNP Paribas.

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Projects 77: Billboards by Sarah Morris, Julian Opie, and Lisa Ruyter
October 7–December 1, 2002

Projects 77 features a series of newly commissioned outdoor billboards on display for eight weeks throughout New York City. Approximately fifteen billboards with images created by Sarah Morris, Julian Opie, and Lisa Ruyter address the theme of the urban experience. For a list of the locations, please visit www.moma.org/projects. A roundtable discussion on the project and billboard art takes place on November 5; for details, call (212) 708-9781.

Organized by Judy Hecker, Assistant Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books. The Projects series is sponsored by Peter Norton. Additional funding is provided by The Contemporary Arts Council, The Junior Associates, and The Young Print Collectors of The Museum of Modern Art.

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Projects 76: Francis Alÿs
June 29–November 11, 2002

Francis Alÿs is staging a ceremonial procession commemorating The Museum of Modern Art's move from midtown Manhattan to its temporary home in Long Island City, Queens. Departing from 11 West 53 Street, moving over the Queensboro Bridge, and marching up Queens Boulevard, the procession comes to an end at MoMA QNS. The artist is documenting this festive and somber occasion with a video to be screened at MoMA QNS. Alÿs's procession will be a public spectacle, partly evoking a saint's day procession and partly a secular celebration.

Projects 76: Francis Alÿs was organized by Harper Montgomery, Assistant Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books. This exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Public Art Fund. Francis Alÿs: The Modern Procession, a project of the Public Art Fund, was presented on June 23, 2002. Video projectors and DVD players courtesy of Hitachi America, Ltd.

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A Walk through Astoria and Other Places in Queens:
Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt
June 29–November 4, 2002

In the early 1940s, Swiss-born photographer and experimental filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt focused his photography on finding beauty in the uncelebrated and untidy details of life in and around Astoria, Queens. This exhibition brings together the two private, unpublished albums that Burckhardt made from these photographs. For the first time, Burckhardt's carefully constructed, filmlike sequences-the unique intersection of his work in photography and film-are presented for public enjoyment. This work inspired the poet Edwin Denby to write sonnets about Queens, several of which were pasted into one of Burckhardt's albums and are included in the exhibition.

Organized by Sarah Hermanson Meister, Associate Curator, Research and Collections, Department of Photography. This exhibition is generously supported by the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc. in honor of Agnes Gund. Additional funding is provided by the Robert and Joyce Menschel Family Foundation.

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AUTObodies: speed, sport, transport
June 29–September 16, 2002

AUTObodies: speed, sport, transport features the Museum's collection of automobiles and debuts three major new acquisitions, including the first American automotive design to enter the collection. Automobiles in the Museum's collection have been selected for outstanding aesthetic qualities and because they are historically and culturally influential designs. The exhibition represents a span of five decades of automotive design, including Pinin Farina's Cisitalia 202 GT (1946) and Ferrari's Formula 1 Racing Car 641/2 (1990). Complementing the automobiles are related works from the Museum's collection.

Organized by Peter Reed, Curator of Architecture and Design. This exhibition is supported by Merrill Lynch, Pininfarina S.p.A., and Road & Track Magazine. Additional funding is provided by The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art. The accompanying educational programs are made possible by BNP Paribas.

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Tempo
June 29–September 9, 2002

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This exhibition focuses on distinct perceptions of time-phenomenological, empirical, political, and fictional. Contemporary artists from the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia map the show into five areas of multimedia installations that examine cultural differences in the construction of time.

Time Collapsed, the systemic and the random are interfaced in a cacophony of clocks, watches, and metronomes. Transgressive Bodies probes the metabolic processes and erotic drives exercised by the body. Liquid Time explores the ever-changing flow of time through images of water. Trans-Histories addresses issues of postcolonialism by engaging the viewer's critical perception of the present through memory. Finally, in Mobility/Immobility, seemingly static video and sculptural pieces, actually in constant motion, destabilize the viewer's perception of time.

Organized by Paulo Herkenhoff, Adjunct Curator, with the assistance of Roxana Marcoci and Miriam Basilio, Department of Painting and Sculpture. The exhibition catalogue is written by Herkenhoff, Marcoci, and Basilio. This exhibition is supported by Philip Morris Companies Inc. Additional support is provided by Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro and The International Council and The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art. The accompanying educational programs are made possible by BNP Paribas. LCD monitor, plasma displays and DVD players courtesy of Hitachi America, Ltd. Travel support provided by Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes, New York.

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The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910–1934
March 28–May 21, 2002
Second floor

Featuring some 300 books, this is the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted exclusively to the illustrated books made during this enormously creative period. Prompted by an extraordinary gift to MoMA of more than 1,000 Russian avant-garde illustrated books from The Judith Rothschild Foundation, New York, the exhibition represents all the significant artistic developments of the period with works by Kazimir Malevich, Olga Rozanova, Natalia Goncharova, El Lissitzky, Aleksandr Rodchenko, and many others.

Organized by Deborah Wye, Chief Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, and Margit Rowell, Guest Curator. This exhibition is supported by The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art. The accompanying publication is jointly funded by The Judith Rothschild Foundation and the Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund. Additional funding is provided by Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro, the Trust for Mutual Understanding, The Cowles Charitable Trust, and Joanne M. Stern

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Life of the City
February 28–May 21, 2002
Third floor

This is an experimental exhibition composed of three distinct but interrelated parts. The first presents more than 150 pictures from the Museum's collection that explore the richness, diversity, and power of the tradition of photography in New York, and which together evoke the vitality, grit, and beauty of the city. The second element is a changing display of photographs contributed (one per person) by New Yorkers and visitors that express their relationships to the city. Contributions will not be accepted after May 7, 2002. Completing the exhibition are monitors displaying a continuous stream of the thousands of photographs of the events of September 11, 2001, and its aftermath that have been collected by the remarkable project, Here Is New York.

Organized by the curatorial staff of the Department of Photography, with the generous cooperation of the organizers of Here Is New York. This exhibition is supported by The Starr Foundation. The presentation of Here is New York is made possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

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Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting
February 14–May 21, 2002
Second and third floors

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This is the first full-scale survey in New York City devoted to the work of German artist Gerhard Richter (born 1932), one of the most influential painters working today. Included are some 180 paintings from every phase of Richter's career, from 1962 to today, ranging from photography-based pictures to gestural abstraction. Also on view will be Richter's cycle of 15 black-and-white paintings titled October 18, 1977 (1988), based on press photographs of the Baader-Meinhof group.

Organized by Robert Storr, Senior Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture. This exhibition is sponsored by Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder. Generous support is also provided by Mimi and Peter Haas. An indemnity has been granted by the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. The accompanying publication is made possible by the Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund. Additional funding is provided by Leila and Melville Straus and The Contemporary Arts Council and The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art.

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Artists of Brücke
February 14–May 21, 2002
Second floor kiosks

This site is the Museum’s first exhibition created exclusively for the web and showcases its unparalleled collection of German Expressionist prints and illustrated books. The Brücke group, formed in 1905 in Dresden by four revolutionary architectural students including Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Erich Heckel, strove to achieve a new synthesis between art and life, bringing meaning back to what they considered the superficial bourgeois existence of German life under Kaiser Wilhelm II. They organized exhibitions and publicized their own work by issuing annual portfolios of prints. Printmaking, and the woodcut in particular, became one of their most important modes of expression. This site presents over 110 prints arranged into thematic groupings to highlight the issues and motifs central to this seminal movement in the history of modern prints.
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Organized by Wendy Weitman, Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books.

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Projects 75: Laylah Ali
March 14–May 21, 2002

For Projects 75, artist Laylah Ali has created her first artist/comic book, composed entirely of her trademark figures. Borrowing heavily from the traditional comic book in form, Ali's project departs completely from the genre in content. Stock characters, among them soldiers, ecumenical figures, prisoners and police; doctors and patients, slaves and masters, are separated into panels that normally permit an orderly progression of story. Her substantial themes: individual and group identity, politics and power, race and class, all served up as disarmingly naïve fare, the effect of which is to replace the viewer's initial amusement with shock as the scene is slowly digested.

Organized by Kristin Helmick-Brunet, Assistant Curator, Department of Drawings. Projects 75: Laylah Ali is available for $2.00 at The MoMA stores. The Projects series is sponsored by Peter Norton.

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Projects 74: Ricci Albenda
November 16, 2001–January 22, 2002
Lower level

This New York artist transforms an area of the Museum's lower level into a series of environments that play with our spatial perceptions in subtly different ways. Designed using three-dimensional computer-imaging technology, Albenda's creations reflect the artist's interests in architecture, graphic design, and physics.

Organized by Laura Hoptman, Assistant Curator, Department of Drawings. The Projects series is sponsored by Peter Norton.

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Projects 73: Olafur Eliasson–Seeing yourself sensing
September 13, 2001–May 21, 2002
Garden Hall

Olafur Eliasson's installation, conceived for the windows in MoMA's Garden Hall, investigates sensory perception in relationship to architecture, more specifically the dialogue between inside and outside. It also addresses the shifting nature of the Museum, which is currently undergoing major renovation and expansion. Fifty sheets of striped transparent and mirrored glass extend over the first and second floors, creating a mesmerizing visual experience. Seeing yourself sensing probes the notion of seeing as a phenomenological process and an action realized in time.

Organized by Roxana Marcoci, Janice H. Levin Fellow/Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture, and Claudia Schmuckli, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Chief Curator at Large. The Projects series is sponsored by Peter Norton.

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Bernard Tschumi. The Manhattan Transcripts, Episode 2: The Street (Border Crossing) (detail). 1978. Ink, charcoal, graphite, cut-and-pasted photographic reproductions, Letraset type, and color pencil on tracing paper, 24" x 32' 2" (61 x 980.4 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase and partial gift of the architect in honor of Lily Auchincloss

Perfect Acts of Architecture
August 15–October 19, 2002
AXA Gallery, 787 Seventh Avenue at 51 Street, Manhattan

The exhibition presents six series of highly inventive drawings created between 1972 and 1987 by Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, Peter Eisenman, Bernard Tschumi, Daniel Libeskind, and Thom Mayne-young architects who went on to establish international reputations. In the early 1970s, a sluggish world economy and an entrenched professional conservatism had all but curtailed innovative building, moving the most talented architects into an academic environment. Encountering a turbulent intellectual scene there, they used graphic experimentation as a primary means of researching the connections between architecture, philosophy, film, and contemporary culture. The stage was thus set for an eruption of ìpaper architectureî of incomparable beauty, brilliance, and depth.

AXA Gallery is open from Monday to Friday 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. and Saturday 12:00-5:00 p.m., and is closed Sunday.

Organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University. Presented by AXA Gallery and The Museum of Modern Art. The accompanying publication is supported by a generous grant from Elise Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown.

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Collection Highlights
Second floor

This exhibition presents some of the most iconic and well-loved works in the Museum's collection. The installation features paintings by Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Henri Rousseau, and Vincent van Gogh along with works by contemporary artists such as Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, and Cy Twombly.

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MoMA Builds
Through May 21, 2002
Ground floor

Come see what the new Museum of Modern Art and MoMA QNS will be like. MoMA Builds includes a model of the new MoMA, a virtual tour of the new building (narrated by Steve Martin), floor plans, concept designs, and building material samples. The exhibition also presents a model, floor plans, and schematic drawings for MoMA QNS, the Museum's new home opening on June 29 in Long Island City, Queens.

Organized by Matilda McQuaid, Associate Curator, Department of Architecture and Design.