The Museum of Modern Art presents Dali: Painting and Film, the first exhibition to focus on the profound relationship between the paintings and films of Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904–1989). The exhibition proposes that Dali's personal engagement with cinema—as a filmgoer, a screenwriter, a filmmaker, and an art director—was fundamental to his understanding of modernism and deeply affected his art.

The Museum of Modern Art, in conjunction with the inaugural World Science Festival, presents a special program of screenings and a discussion focused on the Bourne trilogy of action thrillers.

Focus: Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko, now on view in MoMA's Painting and Sculpture galleries, features five paintings by Ad Reinhardt (American, 1913-67) and six by Mark Rothko (American, 1903-70) from the Museum's collection. The works in this single- gallery installation highlight the years between the late 1940s and the early 1960s, a period during which each artist identified the style and format that would engage him for the rest of his career.

The Museum of Modern Art presents Bernd and Hilla Becher: Landscape/Typology, a focussed examination of the influential photographic work of the German husband-and-wife team. For nearly 50 years, the Bechers photographed water towers, gas tanks, cooling towers, and other large industrial structures, notably including the winding towers of coal mines and the blast furnaces that produce iron and steel.

The Museum of Modern Art presents Ateliers Jean Prouvé, an exhibition that provides a historical view of workshop mass production as practiced by the French architect and designer Jean Prouvé (1901—84), and of the collaborations within his ateliers that took designs for furniture and architecture from ideas to industrialized products. The exhibition will be on view through March 31, 2009.

The Museum of Modern Art presents the most extensive U.S. retrospective of the films of Alanis Obomsawin, one of Canada's most distinguished documentary filmmakers. Alanis Obomsawin: A Retrospective, which is presented May 14–26, 2008, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters, is a comprehensive overview of the films and videos of the Canada-based filmmaker, who chronicles many of the struggles and the history of the First Nations of Canada.

The Museum of Modern Art presents a comprehensive retrospective of the films of Peter Hutton, an artist noted for his luminous and meditative portraits of cities, waterways, and landscapes. The 18-film exhibition Peter Hutton, presented through June 26, 2008 in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters, features work he has made over the past four decades.

The Museum of Modern Art presents the first complete North American retrospective of Korean writer-director Kim Ki-Duk. Kim Ki-Duk, a 14-film exhibition that includes several features never before seen in the U.S., is presented April 23 through May 8, 2008 in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters, giving audiences a rare chance to chart the development of the director's sensuous imagery and strong narratives.

For Projects 87: Sigalit Landau, The Museum of Modern Art presents Cycle Spun (2007), a three-channel video installation that was recently acquired for the collection, by artist Sigalit Landau (b. Israel, 1969). The videos—DeadSee (2005), Barbed Hula (2000), and Day Done (2007)—each depict a performative act of spinning or circular motion, set against a landscape in Landau's native Israel. The exhibition runs through July 28, 2008.

From 1962 to 1972, George Lois changed the face of magazine design with his covers for Esquire magazine. MoMA presents prints of 32 of the 92 covers Lois created for the magazine in George Lois: The Esquire Covers from April 25, 2008, to March 31, 2009, in the Museum's Philip Johnson Architecture and Design Galleries on the third floor.

The Museum of Modern Art presents its fifth annual exhibition of recent films from Canada. Canadian Front, 2008, presented March 13–20, 2008, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters, is a series of eight dramatic feature films completed in 2007, all of which are having their first New York screenings at MoMA.

Co-presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art, New Directors/New Films 2008 hits New York, March 26 to April 6. The 37th edition of this program dedicated to the discovery and support of emerging directors, actors, and other talent will present the New York premieres of 26 films and six shorts, along with the third HBO Films Roundtable. Festival screenings are held at the Film Society's Walter Reade Theater and MoMA's Titus 1 Theater.