Format this e-mail for: Web browser | mobile device THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ANNOUNCES EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS FOR MAY 2013 Beginning in May, MoMA Will Be Open 7 Days Per Week The Museum of Modern Art will be open to the public every day, including Tuesdays. Contemporary Art Forum Art at Large: Artmaking in the Long View Thursday, May 2, 6:00 p.m. Friday, May 3, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Theater 3 (The Celeste Bartos Theater), mezzanine, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building This year's Contemporary Art Forum focuses on long-term, process-based art and its impact on the experience of art. While many artists establish concrete goals, the processes we are interested in examining may span the lifetime of the artist, require ongoing participation or discussion, and be linked more to research and exploration than to a pre-established plan. As such, these projects may not culminate in an end product or be able to be regarded or displayed as an "artwork." Through a series of conversations, presentations, and "experiences," artists, curators, and writers explore how these challenges to the constraints of time and the expectations of final product and finality force viewers and participants to reconsider the role of art in society. for more information on the keynote conversation. for more information on the panel sessions. Modern Monday: An Evening with Saul Levine Monday, May 6, 7:00 p.m. The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2 For nearly 50 years, Saul Levine (American, b. 1943) has made experimental films that are distinguished by their machine-gun rhythms, political urgencies, and moments of cloistered, even blissful, family settings. Tracing a vital aspect of Levine's work across four decades—what P. Adams Sitney has identified as "his incessant, chaotic outpouring of political energy" —this special co-presentation of Modern Mondays and To Save and Project: The 10th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation features the New York premiere of Light Licks: By the Waters of Babylon: This May Be the Last Time (2011), Levine's meditation on the play of winter light on Boston's Charles River; and luminous 8mm, Super-8, and 16mm prints of The Big Stick/An Old Reel (1967-73), Notes of an Early Fall (1976), Unemployment Portrayal Note (1980), and Notes after Long Silence (1984-89) that have been beautifully preserved by Bill Brand/BB Optics, with partial funding from the National Film Preservation Foundation. for more information. XL: 19 New Acquisitions in Photography May 10, 2013–January 6, 2014 The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries, third floor This exhibition offers a critical assessment of photography's influential role in contemporary art through a selection of recent major acquisitions, comprised primarily of multipart and serial works by 19 artists. These works—each of which is being presented at MoMA for the first time—are grounded in diverse photographic traditions, suggesting the creative fertility of the medium from 1960 to today. They range from postwar experiments with darkroom processes, such as photograms and photomontages; to 1970s feminist performances conceived for the camera; to political and documentary engagements with themes of labor history and globalization in the 1980s; to post-appropriative forms of archival and historical reconstitution since 2000. for full press release and images. Projects 100: Akram Zaatari May 11–September 23 Projects Gallery, second floor Working in photography, film, video, installation, and performance, Beirut-based artist Akram Zaatari has built a complex, compelling body of work that explores the state of image-making today. Projects 100 features the American premiere of two video installations: Dance to the End of Love (2011) and On Photography, People and Modern Times (2010). Comprised of found YouTube clips made by Arab youth and shared freely online, Dance to the End of Love examines the role of social media as a space that is both intimate and public. On Photography, People and Modern Times, which tracks photographic records that Zaatari researched and collected for the Arab Image Foundation in the late 1990s, is a meditation on intimate past moments evoked by photographs and a present environment that secures their preservation. Cutting across temporal and geographic borders, these two video installations probe the nature of time and assert the permeability of memory. for more information and images. Modern Monday: An Evening with Kerry Tribe Monday, May 13, 7:00 p.m. The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2 Kerry Tribe (American, b. 1973) uses the formal mechanics of the moving image to explore the instability of recall and the subjective nature of perception. This evening culminates in a live performance of Tribe's Critical Mass, based on the 1971 Hollis Frampton film of the same name. In Frampton's film, an improvised argument between a young man and woman is captured, copied, cut up, and reassembled to produce a frenetically edited, highly structural, distanced yet evocative work. Tribe's piece reenacts Frampton's film cut-by-cut with two live actors, inverting the role of film as performance document while exploring the historical specificity of language and gender. The performance has undergone a series of evolutions since it was first staged at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2010; this will be the New York premiere of the new iteration, with actors Emelie O'Hara and Nick Huff. for more information. Museum Day Saturday, May 18 The Museum of Modern Art announces that it will offer discounted admission as part of the Association of Art Museum Directors' (AAMD) Art Museum Day, coinciding with International Museum Day on Saturday, May 18, 2013. MoMA will offer half price admission on all online admission ticket purchases made for May 18, 2013. Visitors who purchase the half-price admissions may apply the value of a full ticket price toward the cost of a membership. for more information about Art Museum Day. MoMA Studio: Exchange Café May 24–June 30 Mezzanine, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building Conceived in collaboration with artist and organizer Caroline Woolard, MoMA Studio: Exchange Café is a social space and interactive environment in the mezzanine of MoMA's Education and Research building. Taking the form of a café, the studio encourages participants to explore alternative notions of value, exchange, and community through shared experiences and creative interactions. Tea, milk, and sugar–products that directly engage the political economy–are available by exchange. for more information about this program. for more information about the Artists Experiment initiative. Ellsworth Kelly: Chatham Series May 25–September 8 The Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Painting and Sculpture Galleries, fourth floor In celebration of Ellsworth Kelly's 90th birthday in May 2013, The Museum of Modern Art presents an exhibition of the first series of paintings the artist made after leaving New York City for Spencertown, in upstate New York, in 1970. His studio in the nearby town of Chatham was an abandoned theater, and it was more spacious than any the artist had previously occupied. The 14 paintings in the Chatham series, produced during the year following Kelly's arrival, all rely on a single formal concept: each ell-shaped work is made of two joined canvases of pure monochrome color. The works vary in color and proportion from one to the next; careful attention was paid to the size of each panel and the color selected in order to achieve balance and contrast between the two. Kelly developed the concept of painting on joined panels while working in Paris in the early 1950s, and it is an approach he continues to explore in his current work. for more information and images. Astonishing City Free of Microbes and Captive Elephants: A 'Pataphysical Bus Tour with Kenneth Goldsmith Friday, May 31, 2:00–4:00 p.m. Meet at The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, 4 W. 54 Street at 1:30 p.m. Experience New York through the lens of poetry and architecture. Kenneth Goldsmith ends his residency on a double-decker bus tour of New York City's landmark sites, accompanied by a marathon reading from his work-in-progress, Capital, a poetic history of New York City in the 20th century, inspired by Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project, which documented the cultural history of Paris in the 19th century. 'Pataphysics—the science of imaginary solutions to imaginary problems—was pioneered by Alfred Jarry in the early 20th century. By leasing a Gray Line open-top tour bus and making it do things it normally doesn't, we'll recast it as a 'pataphysical vehicle, turning a quotidian tourist trap into a magical mystery tour. Tickets ($40, $30 members, corporate members, $20 students and seniors) are available at MoMA.org, at the Information Desk in the main lobby or at the Film Desk. for more information about this program. for more information about the Artists Experiment initiative. MoMA Exhibitions Extended Bruce Nauman: The 1980's has been extended until June 16. Artist's Choice: Trisha Donnelly has been extended until July 28. Abstract Generation: Now in Print has been extended until September 2. Downloadable high-resolution images CONTACT: Janelle Grace 212-708-9752 Email Department of Communications 212-708-9431 pressoffice@moma.org Image 1: Lynn Hershman Leeson (American, born 1941). Roberta's Construction Chart #2. 1976. Chromogenic color print, printed 2003, 22 15/16 x 29 5/8" (58.3 x 75.3 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Modern Women's Fund. © 2013 Lynn Hershman Leeson Image 2: Akram Zaatari (Lebanese, born 1966). On Photography, People and Modern Times. 2010. Two-channel synchronized HD projection (color, sound), 38 min. Courtesy the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut / Hamburg. © 2013 Akram Zaatari Image 3: Ellsworth Kelly (American, born 1923). Chatham VI: Red Blue. 1971. Oil on canvas, two panels. 9′ 6 1/2″ x 8′ 6 1/4″ (290.8 x 259.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art. Gift of Douglas S. Cramer Foundation. © 2013 Ellsworth Kelly. Photo credit: Department of Imaging and Visual Resources, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: Tom Griesel The Museum of Modern Art | 11 West 53 Street | New York, NY 10019 To ensure you receive our e-mail, make sure you add support@enews-moma.org to your address book. If you prefer not to receive future email from The Museum of Modern Art, please .