Moma Talks: Conversations

September 16, 2009 6:30 P.M. This program, which accompanies the exhibition Ron Arad: No Discipline, explores the creative approaches of those whose work defies the easy categorization of disciplines and encompasses countless styles of production. Participants include Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art; and artists Ron Arad, Tom Friedman, and Cornelia Parker.

Monday, June 19, 2006 6:00 p.m. Artists Judith Shea and Joel Shapiro discuss modern and contemporary sculpture through individual presentations and a conversation moderated by Ann Temkin, curator of the exhibition. Held in conjunction with the MoMA exhibition Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection.

Wednesday, March 8, 2006 6:00 p.m. Writers, cultural theorists, and artists discuss the idea of "home" and the effects of exile. Panelists include Homi Bhabha, Chair of the Program in History and Literature, Harvard University, and artists Shahzia Sikander and Shirazeh Houshiary. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking.

Without Boundary: Meditations on Truth Thursday, May 4, 2006 6:00 p.m. Understanding work by artists who come from the Islamic world raises complex questions, especially when examined within a postcolonial and Western context. Artists Shirin Neshat and Walid Raad, and Gavatri Chakravorty Spivak, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University, discuss diverse interpretations of truth, as well as how they review, revise, and subvert received understandings of the Islamic world. Note: Only three minutes of Walid Raad's lecture are included in this recording. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking.

Monday, February 27, 2006 6:00 p.m. The Museum of Modern Art presents an interdisciplinary panel that investigates the repetitive, detail-oriented creative practices of artists, writers, and performers. Panelists include artists Trenton Doyle Hancock and Daniel Zeller, poet Susan Howe, and musician David Grubbs. Moderated by Brooke Davis Anderson, curator of Obsessive Drawing. Held in conjunction with the MoMA exhibition The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now and the American Folk Art Museum's exhibition Obsessive Drawing.

Monday, November 21, 2005 6:00 p.m. Contemporary artists, including Carroll Dunham, Robert Gober, and Jessica Stockholder discuss the impact of Elizabeth Murray’s work in a panel discussion moderated by Robert Storr, organizer of the exhibition. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Elizabeth Murray.

Elizabeth Murray: Gallery Talk Monday, October 24, 2005 6:00 p.m. Robert Storr, organizer of the exhibition and Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, leads a discussion about the exhibition in the Museum galleries, after-hours.

Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Isaac Julien Friday, November 18, 2005 6:30 p.m. British audio-visual installation artist Isaac Julien draws from a variety of artistic and theoretical sources to create films that explore the construction of cultural identities. His films include Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1995); the Cannes Film Festival prize-winner Young Soul Rebels (1991); and the groundbreaking documentary Looking for Langston (1989). In 2001, Julien was short-listed for the Turner Prize (for his film The Long Road to Mazatlan, 1999), and received the prestigious MIT Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts.

Artists Speak: Conversations on Contemporary Art with Glenn D. Lowry The Persistence of Figuration Wednesday, March 1, 2006 6:30 p.m. Glenn Lowry, Director of MoMA, moderates discussions with leading artists about contemporary art and culture. In this session, Dana Schutz and Ernesto Caivano discuss the persistence of painting and figuration.

Wednesday, November 16, 2005 6:00 p.m. Edward Larrabee Barnes (1915–2004), an American architect known for his original, modern approach to designing houses, skyscrapers, museums, and educational and religious buildings, is celebrated through presentations by architects and critics who offer their perspectives on the span of his career and his designs for the UCLA Hammer Museum and Walker Art Center. Participants include Robert Campbell, Architect and Architecture Critic, The Boston Globe; Jacques Herzog, Herzog & de Meuron, Basel; Michael Maltzan, Michael Maltzan Architecture, Los Angeles; Toshiko Mori, Toshiko Mori Architect, New York and Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture, Chair, Department of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design; and Terence Riley, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art. Sponsored by the Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, with the Department of Architecture, Graduate

September 6, 2007 6:00 p.m. Co-curator Lynne Cooke and Richard Serra discuss the artist’s work and the exhibition Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years. Photo courtesy of Paula Court