THE M– USEUM OF MODERN ART ANNOUNCES EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS FOR MARCH 2016

Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Art + Feminism
Saturday, March 5, 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building

Join us for the second annual Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, an all-day communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to art and feminism at The Museum of Modern Art. We will provide tutorials for beginner Wikipedians, reference materials, childcare, and refreshments. Bring your laptop, power cord, and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. We invite people of all gender identifications and expressions to attend. For the editing-averse, we urge you to stop by to show your support.

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Japan Now: Architecture for the 21st Century
Wednesday, March 9, 6:00 p.m.
The Celeste Bartos Theater, mezzanine, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building

This panel discussion will address the key themes of the MoMA exhibition A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA, and Beyond. Participants include Ken Tadashi Oshima, Professor of Architecture, University of Washington; Nanako Umemoto, Reiser + Umemoto and RUR Architecture DPC Founding Partner; Kayoko Ota, architecture curator; and Florian Idenburg, SO – IL Founding Partner. Martino Stierli, Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA, will give welcome remarks. Pedro Gadanho, Director, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, and curator of the exhibition, introduces the discussion.

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Projects 102: Neïl Beloufa
March 12–June 12
The Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Lobby Gallery, fourth floor

Projects 102, part of The Elaine Dannheisser Projects Series, presents the work of Neïl Beloufa (b. 1985, Paris), an artist who deftly combines moving-image media and sculpture into domestically scaled cinematic spaces he makes by hand using inexpensive construction materials and techniques. Within these immersive environments, he treats screens as objects, obstructing and consciously framing the spectator’s viewing experience. His custom-built architectonic installations mimic the modularity through which mass culture and digital information systems are produced and distributed. By revealing the cables and cords in his works, or offering viewers choices for what to view, for example, his structures create a situation in which spectators’ relationships to the recorded images are contingent upon technological or social apparatuses.

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A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA, and Beyond
March 13–July 4
The Architecture and Design Galleries, third floor

A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA, and Beyond focuses on the work of architects and designers orbiting Pritzker Prize winners Toyo Ito and SANAA. Providing an overview of Ito’s career and his influence as a mentor to a new generation of Japanese architects, the exhibition offers a retrospective of recent works by three generations of internationally acclaimed designers, including Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa, Sou Fujimoto, Akihisa Hirata, and Junya Ishigami. Displaying models, drawings, and images of more than 40 architectural designs, the exhibition highlights the renewed prominence and innovation of contemporary architecture from Japan since the 1990s.

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New Directors/New Films 2016
March 16–27
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters (MoMA) & Walter Reade Theater (Lincoln Center)

Now in its 45th year, the renowned New Directors/New Films festival, presented jointly by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art, introduces New York audiences to the work of emerging or not-yet-established filmmakers from around the world. Representing 13 countries from around the world, the initial eight selections are Zhao Liang’s Behemoth (China/France), Marcin Wrona’s Demon (Poland/Israel), Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits (USA), Pietro Marcello’s Lost and Beautiful (Italy/France), Yaelle Kayam’s Mountain (Denmark/Israel), Gabriel Mascaro’s Neon Bull (Brazil/Uruguay/Netherlands), Raam Reddy’s Thithi (India/USA/Canada), and Clément Cogitore’s The Wakhan Front (France/Belgium). Additional selections will be announced soon.

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Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty
March 26–July 24
The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Gallery,
sixth floor

A major exhibition focusing on Edgar Degas’s (1834–1917) extraordinary and rarely seen monotypes and their impact on his wider practice, Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty is the first exhibition in the U.S. in nearly 50 years to examine these radical, innovative works—and The Museum of Modern Art’s first monographic exhibition of the artist. It will feature approximately 130 monotypes along with some 50 related works, including paintings, drawings, pastels, sketchbooks, and prints, to be seen only at MoMA.

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From the Collection: The 1960s
March 26, 2016–March 12, 2017
The Alfred H. Barr Galleries, fourth floor

The Museum of Modern Art will reinstall its fourth floor collection galleries with works exclusively from the 1960s. This installation interweaves works from MoMA’s six curatorial departments in a presentation that highlights the decade’s broad ranging experimentation and the interdisciplinary nature of its artistic production. The galleries will proceed chronologically with work across disciplines installed year by year. This organizing principle steps back from the classification of galleries by art historical themes or “isms” and instead aims to provide a variety of fresh discoveries and unexpected connections.

Maclean, B.
Maclean, B.

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