MODERN MONDAYS Continue at MoMA, 1/9-1/30

Modern Mondays is a program that brings contemporary, innovative film and moving-image works to the public and provides a forum for viewers to engage in dialogue and debate with contemporary filmmakers and artists. Modern Mondays presents new—and newly rediscovered—film and media works with the director in attendance, stimulating discourse, dialogue, and interaction in a social setting.

An Evening with Ron English
January 9, 7:00 p.m.
New York-based artist Ron English (American, b. 1966) has been described as a "pop pervert and prankster." Infamous for his subversive use of pirated billboards, this seminal figure in street art and the "culture-jamming" movement exploits familiar brand imagery and advertising in photorealist paintings and art actions that critique contemporary consumer culture. Past works include unauthorized murals at the Berlin Wall's Checkpoint Charlie in 1989 and on the Palestinian separation wall in the West Bank in 2007, and the Abraham Obama project in 2008. This evening includes Pedro Carvajal's 2005 documentary feature Propaganda: The Art and Crimes of Ron English, and a sampling of English's recent moving image works, including the "Detroit project" from his ongoing video-posting series. After the screening, English will engage in a discussion with Paper magazine editor Carlo McCormick. Organized by Ron Magliozzi, Associate Curator, Department of Film.

An Evening with Dan Graham
January 23, 7:00 p.m.
Dan Graham (American, b. 1942) has pioneered Conceptual, performance, and video art since the mid-1960s, producing a profoundly influential body of work and theory that has helped to shape the direction and practice of contemporary art over the past four decades. Beginning in 1965, Graham took a series of color snap-shots in suburban New Jersey and New York, using a Kodak Instamatic fixed focus camera. Referring to Minimalist reduction and seriality, Graham utilized the 35mm slide format as a repeatable "art structure" in and of itself. The resulting slide projection, Homes for America, premiered in the exhibition Projected Art at New York City's Finch College Museum of Art in 1966. For this evening, Dan Graham will present and discuss this work, which was acquired and recently restored by MoMA. In addition, Graham will speak about his early "proto-Conceptual" art dealing with magazine pages. MoMA added a substantial number of Graham's text pieces and works intended as interventions in magazines through the recent acquisition of The Daled Collection of American and European Conceptual Art. Organized by Sabine Breitwieser, Chief Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art.

An Evening with Andrea Fraser
January 30, 7:00 p.m.
For almost 30 years, Los Angeles-based artist Andrea Fraser (American, b. 1965) has engaged in an ongoing investigation of what we want from art. Combining feminist perspectives on subjectivity and desire with the site-specific and research-based practices that emerged with Conceptualism in the late 1960s, Fraser uses performance, video, and a range of other mediums to explore and critique the motivations that drive artists, collectors, art dealers, corporate sponsors, museum trustees, and museum visitors. For this event, the artist will present and discuss some videos of her performances and her practice. Organized by Sabine Breitwieser, Chief Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art.

Tickets: $12 adults; $10 seniors, 65 years and over with I.D. Admission is free for Museum members and for Museum ticketholders.

Organized by the Department of Film and the Department of Media and Performance Art. Modern Mondays is made possible by Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro. Additional support is provided by The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art.

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