Modern Poets
Writing Dalí: The Artist's Letters, Poetry, and Manifestos
June 30, 2008
6:30 p.m.

This program showcases a range of Salvador Dalí's provocative and poetic writings, from his opinions on art and popular culture and his well-known explanations of Surrealist practice (including his so-called paranoid-critical method) to unpublished and newly-translated texts. Performers read the artist's poetry, diary entries, musings about New York, letters, interviews, and film scripts, as well as his notorious 1928 Manifest Groc (Yellow Manifesto).
Participants include performance artist Laurie Anderson, former U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, Academy Award nominee David Strathairn and Wooster Group founding member Kate Valk.

This event is held in conjunction with the exhibition Dalí: Painting and Film.

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Brown Bag Lunch Lectures
Take your time: Olafur Eliasson
May 8, 2008
12:30 p.m.

Lecturer Cara Starke (MA, Williams College) is a curatorial assistant in the Department of Media.

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Brown Bag Lunch Lectures
A User's Guide to the Architecture of the Beijing Olympics
May 1, 2008
12:30 p.m.

Lecturer Nader Voussoughian (PhD, Columbia University) is an assistant professor at the New York Institute of Technology.

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Conversations with Contemporary Artists
Fiona Banner
April 25, 2008
6:30 p.m.

Using feature films or real life experiences as a source, Fiona Banner creates text-based drawings, sculpture, and sound. She retells stories in her own words, revealing the ways people fictionalize or mythologize imagined or real events through their own accounts. Born in Liverpool, Fiona Banner studied fine art at Kingston Polytechnic, and completed an MA at Goldsmiths College in London. This conversation is moderated by Connie Butler, Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator, Department of Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art.

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Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
Dalí: Painting and Film. A Preview
April 24, 2008
12:30 p.m.

Lecturer Edward Powers (PhD, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University) teaches at Pratt Institute.

Note: Portions of this recording have been removed due to copyright issues.

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Colors of the Brain
April 18, 2008
6:00 p.m.

Presented by The Museum of Modern Art; the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAAP) of Columbia University; and Studio Olafur Eliasson, this program reviews and critiques contemporary cultural theories of color that have emerged from artistic and scientific practices. Discussions and presentations seek to build a contemporary epistemology of color based on recent artistic and scientific experiments and on cognitive research into color perception, with an emphasis on the role that color plays in the physical environment.

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Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
The History of Public Art at Rockefeller Center
April 17, 2008
12:30 p.m.

Lecturer Paula Stuttman (MFA, New York University) is an artist and an adjunct instructor in art history at New School University. She is also a gallery lecturer and a Sackler Educator at the Guggenheim Museum.

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Artists Speak
Cinema Studies: History in Slow Motion
April 14, 2008
6:30 p.m.

Artists Matthew Buckingham and Eve Sussman discuss how they use history, history painting, and avant-garde cinema to create provocative multimedia installations about contemporary life.

Note: Audio recordings of films shown during the program have been removed.

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Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
Design and the Elastic Mind
April 10, 2008
12:30 p.m.

Lecturer Patricia Juncosa (PhD, School of Architecture of Barcelona, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) is a curatorial assistant in the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Design and the Elastic Mind.

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Conversations on Color: Chromophobia/Chromophilia
April 9, 2008
6:30 p.m.

In conversations moderated by Ann Temkin, curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, and organizer of the exhibition Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, artists and scholars explore the ways in which artists use color, whether by chance, through systems, or in the context of everyday life. With David Batchelor, artist and the author of Chromophobia, and Chris McGlinchey, conservation scientist, Department of Conservation, The Museum of Modern Art.

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Art and Perception Series
Modalities of the Visible: Understanding and Sensing Images
April 5, 2008
4:00 p.m.

This multidisciplinary series of discussions features prominent artists, art historians, scientists, conservators, and others as they provide a variety of perspectives on the complex process of experiencing art. Discussions explore the ways in which the perception of a single artwork evolves over time, how artists adopt optical and perceptive strategies as a means of influencing a particular sensorial experience, and the impact of recent scientific research and color theory on art and architecture.

Understanding and engaging the viewer's senses and the ways in which they relate to the intellect is a common concern in art making today. To what extent is a viewer's intellectual and sensorial response predictable and/or malleable? How have artists and other image makers used this knowledge to create works with lasting impact? In this panel, prominent scholars discuss the psychology of the artistic experience, the ways in which artists have utilized theories of perception throughout history, and how a viewer's visual literacy and artistic enjoyment can be enhanced. Participants include John Hyman, Fellow and Praelector in Philosophy and Editor, The British Journal of Aesthetics, The Queen's College, UK, and Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, psychologist and author of The Art of Seeing. This program is moderated by Leonard Lopate, host of The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC.

The Art and Perception Series is made possible by The Dana Foundation.

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MIND Design + Science
April 3, 2008
6:30 p.m.

Presented by MoMA and Seed, in collaboration with Parsons The New School for Design.

Collaboration between science and design is yielding a radical new way of visualizing, understanding, and manipulating the natural world. MIND is a two-day conference, inspired by MoMA's Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition, which aims to catalyze this convergence. Bringing together an eclectic group of speakers and participants, including leading scientists, designers, and architects, the conference explores topics such as the personal genome, brain visualization, generative architecture, and collective design. MIND is an opportunity to interact with the ideas and thinkers transforming our visual and intellectual landscape. The keynote address on Thursday evening features Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, History of Science Department, Harvard University; and Henry Markram, Director Blue Brain Project, and Founder and Codirector, Brain Mind Institute.

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Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
Andy Warhol: Commerce and Pop, 1950–68
April 3, 2008
12:30 p.m.

Lecturer Kelly Sidley (PhD, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University) is a lecturer at MoMA.

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Art and Perception Series
The Evolving Artwork
March 20, 2008
6:30 p.m.

This multidisciplinary series of discussions features prominent artists, art historians, scientists, conservators, and others as they provide a variety of perspectives on the complex process of experiencing art. Discussions explore the ways in which the perception of a single artwork evolves over time, how artists adopt optical and perceptive strategies as a means of influencing a particular sensorial experience, and the impact of recent scientific research and color theory on art and architecture.

An artwork often has a life that extends beyond the original intentions of its maker, as its materials enter into a process of slight transformations and interpretive perceptions change. This discussion, which includes experts in the conservation, curatorial, and education fields, analyzes artworks' evolutions throughout history. Participants include Jim Coddington, Chief Conservator, Department of Conservation, Susan Kismaric, Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, and Edward Powers, Lecturer, The Museum of Modern Art, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute. This program is moderated by Leonard Lopate, host of The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC.

The Art and Perception Series is made possible by The Dana Foundation.

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Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today
March 20, 2008
12:30 p.m.

Lecturer Nora Lawrence (MA, University of Southern California; PhD candidate, The Graduate Center, City University of New York) is a curatorial assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA.

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Conversations on Color: Color and Conceptualism
March 13, 2008
6:30 p.m.

In conversations moderated by Ann Temkin, curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, and organizer of the exhibition Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, artists and scholars explore the ways in which artists use color, whether by chance, through systems, or in the context of everyday life. With artists John Baldessari and Daniel Buren, and Bernard Marcadé, art critic, freelance curator, and professor of art history and aesthetics at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts of Paris-Cergy.

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Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
The Futurist Exhibitions at the Venice Biennale under Fascism, 1928–42
March 13, 2008
12:30 p.m.

Lecturer Laura Beiles (MA, Hunter College, City University of New York) is an associate educator in the Department of Education at MoMA.

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Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
A Tribute to Sol LeWitt (1928–2007)
March 6, 2008
12:30 p.m.

Lecturer Veronica Roberts (MA, University of California, Santa Barbara) is a curatorial assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA.

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Lucian Freud Portrayed: An Evening with William Feaver
February 28, 2008
6:30 p.m.

A lecture by art critic, curator, and Freud biographer William Feaver

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Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
Art Spiegelman, Rachel Whiteread, Christian Boltanski, and Others Remember the Holocaust
February 28, 2008
12:30 p.m.

Lecturer Ágnes Berecz (PhD, Université Paris/Panthéon-Sorbonne) is the New York correspondent for Müértõ, a Budapest-based art monthly, and teaches at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

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Modern Poets
Found Poetry: Retelling Word and Image
February 20, 2008
6:30 p.m.

Alvaro Barrios and Fernando Bryce, artists featured in New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions, use newspaper clippings, comics, and advertisements, as well other documentary images and texts, in order to reflect upon history, popular culture, and issues of identity. For this evening's reading, these artists read poetry that has informed the political and social consciousness of their work. Mónica de la Torre, poet and translator, joins them, offering her own selection of poetry about Latin American politics and identity. Following the reading, Luis Pérez-Oramas, The Estrellita Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art at MoMA and organizer of the exhibition, moderates a discussion. Selected readings are in Spanish.

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Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
German Zero, Dutch Nul, and Italian Azimuth: European Geometric Tendencies and the Impact of the Cold War
February 7, 2008
12:30 p.m.

Lecturer Midori Yamamura (PhD candidate, The Graduate Center, City University of New York) is the Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center and is completing her dissertation, Yayoi Kusama: Biography and Cultural Confrontation, 1945–1969.

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Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
What Cézanne Saw: Geometry and the Birth of Modern Painting
January 31, 2008
12:30 p.m.

Lecturer Richard Turnbull (PhD, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University) is an assistant professor and the chair of art history at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

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Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Gabriel Orozco
January 30, 2008
6:30 p.m.

Gabriel Orozco's sculptures, photographs, drawings, installations, and videos weave the everyday with the philosophical; he explores how meaning is made from chance encounters and found objects. Numerous works by the artist are currently on view in the exhibition New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions. This conversation is moderated by Glenn D. Lowry, Director, The Museum of Modern Art.

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Works of Art as Objects
January 24, 2008
6:30 p.m.

To complement the installation New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions, scholars explore the ways in which selected seminal works and artists revolutionized the visual arts in their countries in a given period. Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, curator of Latin American Art, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, examines Gyula Kosice's Mobile Articulated Sculpture (1948); Juan Carlos Ledezma, independent curator, focuses on Alejandro Otero's Ortogonales (1951–52); Amy Rosenblum Martín, independent curator, examines Mira Schendel's Droguinha (1967); and Anna Indych-López, Assistant Professor of Art, The City College of New York, The City University of New York, discusses Victor Grippo's Life, Death, Resurrection (1980). Luis Pérez-Oramas, The Estrellita Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art at MoMA and organizer of the exhibition, moderates a discussion.

The symposium is made possible by Kathy and Richard S. Fuld, Jr.

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Martin Puryear
January 8, 2008
6:30 p.m.

Through a series of presentations and a moderated discussion, David Levi Strauss, scholar, critic, and chair of the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department, School of Visual Arts; Judith Russi Kirshner, professor of Art History and dean of the College of Architecture and the Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago; and artists Josiah McElheny and Terry Winters offer their perspectives on the work of Martin Puryear. John Elderfield, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, and organizer of the exhibition, moderates the discussion.

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