MoMA Talks: Performances and Readings

Wednesday, March 20, 2013, 12:30 p.m. CA Conrad reads (Soma)tic poetry in front of a Giacomo Balla painting in Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925. As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013, 12:30 p.m. CA Conrad reads (Soma)tic poetry in front of a Giacomo Balla painting in Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925. As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

February 27, 2013 1:30 p.m. David Wondrich reads two pieces from The New York Sun, "Seen on a Bridge Train: Seven Little Girls and a Man with a Very Large Jag" (1896) and "Louis’s Loaded Billy Goat: Togo Torpedoes Hobos who Libeled the Lunch" (1905) in front of Paul Strand’s Manahatta in the Shaping of New Visions exhibition, third-floor Photography Galleries. After a brief career as a Shakespeare professor and a briefer one as a jazz critic for The Village Voice and The New York Times, David Wondrich fell into a job writing about drinks for Esquire magazine, an occupation he has happily persevered in ever since. Widely acknowledged as the world’s top authority on the history of the cocktail and one of the founders of the modern craft-cocktail movement, Dr. Wondrich (he has a PhD in comparative literature) is the author of countless newspaper and magazine articles and five books, including Imbibe! (2007), the first cocktail book to win a James Beard award, and Punch, released in 2010 to wide acclaim. As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

February 27, 2013 1:30 p.m. David Wondrich reads two pieces from The New York Sun, "Seen on a Bridge Train: Seven Little Girls and a Man with a Very Large Jag" (1896) and "Louis’s Loaded Billy Goat: Togo Torpedoes Hobos who Libeled the Lunch" (1905) in front of Paul Strand’s Manahatta in the Shaping of New Visions exhibition, third-floor Photography Galleries. After a brief career as a Shakespeare professor and a briefer one as a jazz critic for The Village Voice and The New York Times, David Wondrich fell into a job writing about drinks for Esquire magazine, an occupation he has happily persevered in ever since. Widely acknowledged as the world’s top authority on the history of the cocktail and one of the founders of the modern craft-cocktail movement, Dr. Wondrich (he has a PhD in comparative literature) is the author of countless newspaper and magazine articles and five books, including Imbibe! (2007), the first cocktail book to win a James Beard award, and Punch, released in 2010 to wide acclaim. As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

February 27, 2013 12:30 p.m. Melissa Clark reads "On Murdering Eels and Laundering Swine," by Betty Fussell, in front of Yayoi Kusama’s Accumulation No. 1, in Gallery 19, fourth floor Melissa Clark writes about cuisine and other products of appetite. She earned an MFA in writing from Columbia University, and began a freelance food-writing career in 1994. Since then her work has been honored with awards by the James Beard Foundation and IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals), and been selected for the Best American Food Writing of 2007. She recently joined the staff of The New York Times, where she writes the popular Dining Section column A Good Appetite. In addition, Clark has written 33 cookbooks, many of them in collaboration with some of New York’s most celebrated chefs. Her latest cookbook, Cook This Now, a collection of seasonally inspired recipes, was published by Hyperion in 2011. Uncontested Spaces: Guerilla Readings in the MoMA Galleries As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

February 27, 2013 12:30 p.m. Melissa Clark reads "On Murdering Eels and Laundering Swine," by Betty Fussell, in front of Yayoi Kusama’s Accumulation No. 1, in Gallery 19, fourth floor Melissa Clark writes about cuisine and other products of appetite. She earned an MFA in writing from Columbia University, and began a freelance food-writing career in 1994. Since then her work has been honored with awards by the James Beard Foundation and IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals), and been selected for the Best American Food Writing of 2007. She recently joined the staff of The New York Times, where she writes the popular Dining Section column A Good Appetite. In addition, Clark has written 33 cookbooks, many of them in collaboration with some of New York’s most celebrated chefs. Her latest cookbook, Cook This Now, a collection of seasonally inspired recipes, was published by Hyperion in 2011. Uncontested Spaces: Guerilla Readings in the MoMA Galleries As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

March 13, 2013 12:30 p.m. Uncontested Spaces: Guerilla Readings in the MoMA Galleries As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's "Poet Laureate" program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. The bibliography for this guerrilla reading includes Kieran Daly, “House Plays/Curtain Raisers”; Donald Judd, “Some aspects of color in general and red and black in particular”; Frank Kuenstler, “In Which”; Frank Kuenstler, “Continued”; Frank Kuenstler, “Miscellany”; Tan Lin, “7 Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking”; and Narayan Khandekar, Eleonora Nagy, Julian Miller, Pia Gottschaller, and Carl Mancusi-Ungaro, "The Re-Restoration of Donald Judd's Untitled, 1965." Tan Lin is the author of more than 10 books, including Heath Course Pak; Bib. Rev. Ed; Insomnia and the Aunt; and 7 Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking. He is the recipient of a 2012 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, a Getty Distinguished Scholar Grant, and a Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writing Grant to complete a book on the writings of Andy Warhol. He is currently working on a sampled novel, Our Feelings Were Made by Hand. He is a Professor of English and creative writing at New Jersey City University. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

March 13, 2013 12:30 p.m. Uncontested Spaces: Guerilla Readings in the MoMA Galleries As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's "Poet Laureate" program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. The bibliography for this guerrilla reading includes Kieran Daly, “House Plays/Curtain Raisers”; Donald Judd, “Some aspects of color in general and red and black in particular”; Frank Kuenstler, “In Which”; Frank Kuenstler, “Continued”; Frank Kuenstler, “Miscellany”; Tan Lin, “7 Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking”; and Narayan Khandekar, Eleonora Nagy, Julian Miller, Pia Gottschaller, and Carl Mancusi-Ungaro, "The Re-Restoration of Donald Judd's Untitled, 1965." Tan Lin is the author of more than 10 books, including Heath Course Pak; Bib. Rev. Ed; Insomnia and the Aunt; and 7 Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking. He is the recipient of a 2012 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, a Getty Distinguished Scholar Grant, and a Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writing Grant to complete a book on the writings of Andy Warhol. He is currently working on a sampled novel, Our Feelings Were Made by Hand. He is a Professor of English and creative writing at New Jersey City University. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

March 8, 2013 12:30 p.m. Uncontested Spaces: Guerilla Readings in the MoMA Galleries As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

March 8, 2013 12:30 p.m. Uncontested Spaces: Guerilla Readings in the MoMA Galleries As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

March 6, 2013 12:30 p.m. Uncontested Spaces: Guerilla Readings in the MoMA Galleries As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's "Poet Laureate" program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. David Shields is the author of 14 books, including How Literature Saved My Life (recently published by Knopf); Reality Hunger; The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead; Black Planet (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award); and Remote (winner of the PEN/Revson Award). The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and two NEA fellowships, Shields has published essays and stories in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Yale Review, and dozens of other journals. His work has been translated into 17 languages. As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

March 6, 2013 12:30 p.m. Uncontested Spaces: Guerilla Readings in the MoMA Galleries As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's "Poet Laureate" program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. David Shields is the author of 14 books, including How Literature Saved My Life (recently published by Knopf); Reality Hunger; The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead; Black Planet (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award); and Remote (winner of the PEN/Revson Award). The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and two NEA fellowships, Shields has published essays and stories in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Yale Review, and dozens of other journals. His work has been translated into 17 languages. As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

March 1, 2013 3:00 p.m. As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

March 1, 2013 3:00 p.m. As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

February 22, 2013 3:30 p.m. Kenneth Goldsmith reads Luigi Russolo's Futurist manifesto "The Art of Noise" (1913) in Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925 In conjunction with the exhibition Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925 As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.