MoMA Announces Major Acquisition Of Moving-Image Works By Ken Jacobs
The Museum of Modern Art has purchased 212 films and videos by the American artist Ken Jacobs (b. 1933). These join 14 titles by Jacobs that were already in the Museum's collection, making MoMA the singular repository of works by one of the great moving-image artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
MoMA Announces The 18th TO SAVE AND PROJECT Festival Of Film Restoration
Running from January 13 to February 5, 2022, To Save and Project: The 18th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation includes more than 60 newly preserved features and shorts from 19 countries, many having world or North American premieres and presented in original versions not seen since their initial theatrical releases.
Carnegie Hall's THE '60S FESTIVAL Announces March Events
Carnegie Hall's The '60s: The Years that Changed America, a citywide festival from January 14-March 24, 2018, concludes this month with a vast array of events presented at Carnegie Hall and at more than 35 leading partner cultural institutions throughout New York City. This special exploration of the '60s invites audiences to explore this turbulent decade through the lens of arts and culture, including music's role as a meaningful vehicle to inspire social change.
NYC's Most Comprehensive Celebration of Cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa
Working intimately with directors like Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Kon Ichikawa on some of their most important films, Kazuo Miyagawa (1908-99) pushed Japanese cinema to its highest artistic peaks through his lyrical, innovative, and technically flawless camerawork. Considered the greatest cinematographer of postwar Japanese cinema whose career endured through the 1990s, Miyagawa has influenced generations of leading filmmakers around the world.
Broadway by the Bay Kicks Off Season with THE MUSIC MAN
Broadway by the Bay opens their 2018 season with the Broadway classic, The Music Man. One of American theatre's most enduring musicals, audiences will march along with seventy-six trombones (with a hundred and ten cornets close at hand!), and one fast-talking, smooth-as-silk salesman looking to score big in small-town Iowa. 'Professor' Harold Hill shows up in River City with the hopes of scoring a profitable scam by convincing the townspeople that he can teach their children to play musical instruments.
Carnegie Hall to Present The '60s: The Years That Changed America
From January 14-March 24, 2018, Carnegie Hall presents The '60s: The Years that Changed America, a citywide festival exploring the turbulent decade that was the 1960s through the lens of arts and culture, including music's role as a meaningful vehicle to inspire social change.
MoMA to Screen Films by NYWIFT's Women's Film Preservation Fund, Today
New York Women in Film & Television's (NYWIFT) is pleased to announce that the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has invited two films by the animator Jane Aaron, preserved by NYWIFT's Women's Film Preservation Fund (WFPF), to screen at To Save and Project, MoMA's International Festival of Film Preservation.
MoMA to Screen Films by NYWIFT's Women's Film Preservation Fund, 11/5
New York Women in Film & Television's (NYWIFT) is pleased to announce that the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has invited two films by the animator Jane Aaron, preserved by NYWIFT's Women's Film Preservation Fund (WFPF), to screen at To Save and Project, MoMA's International Festival of Film Preservation.
MOMA to Celebrate Italian Cinema with Two Film Series
The Museum of Modern Art celebrates Italian cinema with two film series in December: Antonio Pietrangeli: A Retrospective (December 3-18, 2015), with long-term partner Luce Cinecitta, and Italian Film, 21st-Century Style: A Tribute to Rai Cinema (December 4-18, 2015). Exploring the director's career from the early 1950s to the mid-1960s, Antonio Pietrangeli will feature 11 feature films, from Pietrangeli's best-known work-including the international premiere of the restored version of I Knew Her Well (which will play in New York theaters from February 2016)-to a number of rediscoveries.
MoMA to Host Wim Wenders Career Retrospective
The Museum of Modern Art celebrates filmmaker Wim Wenders (German, b. 1945) with a major career retrospective. This series is a cooperative venture with the Berlin International Film Festival-which dedicates its 2015 Homage to Wenders, presenting him with an Honorary Golden Bear award for lifetime achievement-and Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum fur Film und Fernsehen.
Carnegie Hall Kicks Off VIENNA: CITY OF DREAMS Festival Today
From today, February 21 to March 16, 2014, Carnegie Hall presents Vienna: City of Dreams, a three-week citywide festival featuring more than 90 events, all inviting audiences to discover the extraordinary artistic legacy of Vienna. The festival features symphonic and operatic masterpieces, chamber music, and lieder, as well as new sounds emerging from this historic cultural capital. In addition to music, Vienna: City of Dreams shines a spotlight on Vienna's visual art, film, architecture, politics, science, and history, creating an extensive look at a city that for centuries has drawn artists, dreamers, and innovators from all corners of the world to its dazzling intellectual and artistic life.
Carnegie Hall Announces VIENNA: CITY OF DREAMS Festival Lineup, 2/21-3/16
From February 21 to March 16, 2014, Carnegie Hall presents Vienna: City of Dreams, a three-week citywide festival featuring more than 90 events, all inviting audiences to discover the extraordinary artistic legacy of Vienna. The festival features symphonic and operatic masterpieces, chamber music, and lieder, as well as new sounds emerging from this historic cultural capital. In addition to music, Vienna: City of Dreams shines a spotlight on Vienna's visual art, film, architecture, politics, science, and history, creating an extensive look at a city that for centuries has drawn artists, dreamers, and innovators from all corners of the world to its dazzling intellectual and artistic life.