MoMA Announces New Exhibitions and Events in April

In conjunction with the exhibition Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980, Learning from/in Latin America will expand on the exhibition's curatorial framework and further explore key positions, debates, and architectural activity arising from Mexico to Cuba and the Southern Cone over three decades of development between 1955 and the early 1980s.

Part One: Roundtable
Part Two: Symposium

One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North
April 3-September 7
Special Exhibitions Gallery, third floor
Press Preview: Tuesday, March 31, 9:30-11:30 a.m.

The Museum of Modern Art marks the centennial of the beginning of the Great Migration, the multi-decade mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North, with the exhibition One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North. The show highlights the ways in which Lawrence and others in his circles developed a set of innovative artistic strategies to offer perspectives on this crucial episode in American history. An extensive program of public events, performances, digital resources, and publications that underscore the movement's transformative impact on American culture, politics, and society will be presented in conjunction with the exhibition.

Modern Mondays: An Evening With Glen Keane And John Canemaker
Monday, April 6, 7:00 p.m.
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

This special Modern Mondays features the New York theatrical premiere of Glen Keane's most recent project, the soaring, gossamer Duet (2014). An independent collaboration with Google's Advance Technology and Projects Group (ATAP), Duet is an interactive hand-drawn animation that explores spatial and sensory awareness. Keane, who retired from Disney in 2013 after a nearly four-decade career as a master of character animation, will take part in an onstage conversation with the Academy Award-winning animation filmmaker and historian John Canemaker. Richly illustrated with film clips and other imagery, the conversation will trace Keane's career, from his mid-1970s Disney apprenticeship to his groundbreaking experiments in situating hand-drawn characters in computer-generated environments.

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Modern Mondays: An Evening With Luther Price
Monday, April 13, 7:00 p.m.
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

Luther Price, whose work is featured in the MoMA exhibition Cut to Swipe, is one of the key figures of contemporary experimental cinema. First known for his haunting Super-8 movies, he has gained a considerable amount of attention in recent years for a suite of 16mm works in which he re-edits junked reels or transforms found strips of film by elaborately abrading the emulsion and obscuring the parent material in dense layers of paint and ink. For this evening's event, Price presents a selection of earlier work alongside new films that have not yet been screened in New York. The evening culminates with Price in conversation with Thomas Beard, one of the directors of Light Industry, and Lia Gangitano, the director of PARTICIPANT INC.

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Modern Mondays: An Evening With Shezad Dawood
Monday, April 20, 7:00 p.m.
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

This Modern Mondays event includes the New York premiere of London-based artist Shezad Dawood's first feature film, Piercing Brightness(2013), which blends color-drenched, kaleidoscopic tableaux and archival footage of extraterrestrial sightings with a loose science-fiction narrative. Set in the Northern England town of Preston, which has the most reported UFO sightings in the U.K. and was an early site for the Mormon Church, the film's exploration of race, migration, and assimilation resonates as strongly as its dizzying, delightful images.

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Projects 101: Rabih Mroué
April 21-22, 7:30 p.m.
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1

Projects 101 features the United States premiere of Riding on a Cloud, a new piece by artist and theater director Rabih Mroué (Lebanese, b. 1967). Based on his brother Yasser Mroué's personal experiences in the aftermath of the Lebanese civil war, this performance combines prerecorded video and spoken word in a parafictional meditation on the relationship between lived experience and representation. Performed by Yasser himself, this poetic mixture of fact and fiction deconstructs biography, questions our relationship to images, and interrogates the space between political reality and memory. Living in Beirut and Berlin, Mroué works both in the visual and performing arts and has exhibited at numerous venues internationally including at the 11th International Istanbul Biennial and Documenta(13), Kassel. His work is currently on view at MoMA in the exhibition Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection.

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In the Public Interest: Unequal Urbanisms
Wednesday, April 22, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
The Celeste Bartos Theater, mezzanine, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building

This discussion, co-organized by The Museum of Modern Art and the Mahindra Center for the Humanities at Harvard University, will be led by Mahindra Center director Homi K. Bhabha and MoMA director Glenn D. Lowry, with Pedro Gadanho, curator of Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities, and Jeanne Gang, founder and principal of Studio Gang Architects, Chicago, Illinois. The discussion will explore how rapidly changing demographics, uncontrolled urban growth, and unequal distribution of goods and services are affecting the way cities function, creating new social, political, economic, and cultural conditions. Among the questions to be addressed is how cultural institutions and networks within these new urban environments can aid in the establishment of "micro-ecologies" that can contribute a stabilizing force despite asymmetrical distributions of wealth and benefits.

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Migration Rhapsody: An Aleatoric Exploration of the Journey North through Music, Poetry, and Personal Narrative
Thursday, April 23, 7:00 p.m.
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1

In conjunction with One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and Other Works, Terrance McKnight, a host on New York City classical music station WQXR, curates an evening of music and performance with artists including Jim Davis, Kevin Maynor, Karen Chilton, Bill T. Jones, Alicia Hall Moran, Jason Moran, Damien Sneed, Bill Sims Jr., Ricky Gordon, Bob Stewart, and others.

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Andy Warhol: Campbell's Soup Cans and Other Works, 1953-1967
April 25-October 12
Prints and Illustrated Books Galleries, second floor

Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans is the signature work in the artist's career and a landmark in MoMA's collection. The 1962 series of 32 paintings is the centerpiece of an exhibition focusing on Warhol's work during the crucial years between 1953 and 1967. The Soup Cans mark a breakthrough for Warhol, when he began to apply his seminal strategies of serial repetition and reproduction to key subjects derived from American commodity culture. Warhol also developed his signature use of the flat, uniform aesthetic of photo-screenprinting just after he completed the Soup Cans. For the first time at MoMA, the 32 Soup Cans are shown in a single line (rather than a grid), echoing the way they were first exhibited at the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, in 1962. The exhibition also includes drawings and illustrated books Warhol made in the 1950s, when he started his career as a commercial artist, and other paintings and prints from the 1960s, when he became a beacon of the Pop art movement.

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Modern Mondays: An Evening With Bouchra Khalili
Monday, April 27, 7:00 p.m.
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

Berlin-based, Moroccan-French artist Bouchra Khalili presents a screening program juxtaposing her own work with works by artists and filmmakers who have influenced her. Trained in cinema and visual art and working across mediums, Khalili often retools the aesthetic strategies of documentary cinema. Her work focuses on historical speculation and the representation of subjects rendered invisible by the nation-state. Khalili will be joined in discussion by Thomas J. Lax, associate curator in MoMA's Department of Media and Performance Art. This program is organized on the occasion of the Museum's recent acquisition of work by the artist.

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Pictured, from the top: Oscar Niemeyer. Cathedral Under Construction, Brasilia, Brazil. Photographer: Unknown. Arquivo Publico do Distrito Federal; Jacob Lawrence. The Migration Series. 1940-41. Panel 48: "Housing for the Negroes was a very difficult problem." Casein tempera on hardboard, 18 x 12" (45.7 x 30.5 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Mrs. David M. Levy. © 2015 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Digital image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY; Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987). Campbell's Soup Cans (detail). 1962. Synthetic polymer paint on thirty-two canvases, each 20 x 16" (50.8 x 40.6 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Partial gift of Irving Blum. Additional funding provided by Nelson A. Rockefeller Bequest, gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A.M. Burden, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund, gift of Nina and Gordon Bunshaft in honor of Henry Moore, Lillie P. Bliss Bequest, Philip Johnson Fund, Frances R. Keech Bequest, gift of Mrs. Bliss Parkinson, and Florence B. Wesley Bequest (all by exchange)