Featuring a retrospective of approximately 50 international films, live concerts, a gallery exhibition, and a panel discussion, Jazz Score celebrates some of the best original jazz composed for film from the 1950s to the present, with a particular emphasis on the rich and largely unexplored history of collaboration among postwar filmmakers and jazz composers, arrangers, and musicians.
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There's a kid waiting to meet you at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Like any kid, it will amuse you, it will ask you lots of questions, and it might even bother you a little bit. But unlike most kids, it doesn’t walk or talk, and it pays perfect attention. Meet Wizkid: part computer, part robot, a Swiss kid who's changing our concept of how people interact with machines.
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Take your time: Olafur Eliasson is the first comprehensive survey in the United States of works by Olafur Eliasson, whose large-scale immersive environments, installations, sculptures, and photographs elegantly recreate the extremes of landscape and atmosphere in his native Iceland, at the same time as they foreground the sensory experience of the work itself.
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The Museum of Modern Art presents a complete retrospective of the films of Milos Forman, one of contemporary cinema's most acclaimed directors.
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Color Chart: Reinventing Color 1950 to Today celebrates a paradox: the lush beauty that results when contemporary artists assign color decisions to chance, readymade source, or arbitrary system. Midway through the 20th century, long-held convictions regarding the spiritual truth or scientific validity of particular colors gave way to an excitement about color as a commercial product, mass-produced and standardized.
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As part of the exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling, which will be on view at MoMA from July 20 to October 20, 2008, The Museum of Modern Art has selected five architects to display full-scale, prefabricated houses in the outdoor space to the west of the Museum building.
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The Museum of Modern Art presents Just In: Recent Acquisitions from the Collection, an installation in The Philip Johnson Architecture and Design Galleries on the third floor that primarily focuses on works designed within the last five years and acquired by the Museum within the last two years.
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The Museum of Modern Art presents the first major North American survey of the films of Goran Paskaljevic, one of Europe’s most respected and critically acclaimed directors. The exhibition Goran Paskaljevic comprises new 35mm English-subtitled prints of 13 features and two shorts by the director, presented January 9–31, 2008, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters.
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The Museum of Modern Art presents Jan De Cock’s (Belgian, born 1976) first museum exhibition in the United States. De Cock, whose work has been the subject of critically acclaimed exhibitions throughout Europe during the last five years, has to date created thousands of images of sites and monuments, compiling them into large bound volumes which he calls denkmals, from the German word for monuments.
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The Museum of Modern Art presents Collaborations in the Collection, a new ongoing series of films that samples a wide range of classic and contemporary film collaborations, both well-known and rarely noticed.
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The Museum of Modern Art presents an exhibition of 13 films starring Joan Blondell, one of Hollywood’s most versatile actresses, whose long and varied career spanned the 1930s through the 1970s.
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The Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with Independent Feature Project (IFP) and its quarterly publication Filmmaker, presents the second annual Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You, November 16–19, 2007, in The Roy and Niuta Titus 2 Theater.
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