MoMA Talks: Conversations

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 School of Design, Harvard University.

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 School of Design, Harvard University.

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