by Keith Widyolar Chosen Memories: Contemporary Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift and Beyond is a major exhibition of Latin American artists who have used history as inspiration during the contemporary period of the last 40 years. Chosen Memories That's an interesting title. These artists were inspired by Latin America's rich past, so they … [Read more...] about Chosen Memories at MoMA Finds the Needle in the Haystack of Contemporary Latin American Art
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Doc Fortnight 2023 Explores the Sad Echoes of Our Colonial Past and Present
MoMA Doc Fortnight 2023 is the Museum of Modern Art's festival of new international documentary film. It's an important festival because the Museum of Modern Art holds one of the world's great film collections. Art follows the times, and occasionally leads it. This film festival gives a bird's eye view into what's happening in the world. 22nd MoMA Doc Fortnight … [Read more...] about Doc Fortnight 2023 Explores the Sad Echoes of Our Colonial Past and Present
Doc Fortnight 2022 Films Explore the Fragility of Life and Mother Earth at MoMA
Doc Fortnight 2022, MoMA’s documentary film festival, is online to members and in-person at the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, Wed, Feb 23 – Mar 10. 🇧🇷🇫🇷🇲🇽🇵🇭🇪🇸 This year's 19 features and 10 shorts focus on environmental issues and the fragility of life in a rapidly changing world. That's smart programming because the two issues are profoundly interlinked. Destroying … [Read more...] about Doc Fortnight 2022 Films Explore the Fragility of Life and Mother Earth at MoMA
New Directors/New Films 2021 Screens the Future
The New Directors/New Films 2021 film festival by Film at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art, is hybrid in-person/virtual at Film at Lincoln Center and newdirectors.org April 28 - May 8, 2021. $12. Many films are available for streaming for several days after the festival's official ending. Film at Lincoln Center is offering a special deal to New York Latin Culture … [Read more...] about New Directors/New Films 2021 Screens the Future
Doc Fortnight 2020
MoMa's festival of international nonfiction film and media is at MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, NYC from February 5-19, 2020. MoMA holds one of the world's great film collections, so MoMA film festivals are important. This is MoMA's documentary film festival. This year's festival includes 12 world premieres, 17 North American premieres and 14 U.S. premieres … [Read more...] about Doc Fortnight 2020
New Directors/New Films 2019
New Directors / New Films 48 is at Film Society of Lincoln Center and MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, Manhattan from March 27 to April 7, 2019. These are films from the festival circuit that Film Society and MoMa have curated. It's the best of the new. New Directors / New Films 2019 The 48th edition screens films by twenty-four new directors. Opening … [Read more...] about New Directors/New Films 2019
Joan Miró
Joan Miró: Birth of the World is at MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, Manhattan, daily from February 24 - June 15, 2019. $25 Joan Miró Joan Miró i Ferrà was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1893. He is one of the great surrealists who explored painting freely from the subconscious when that was a new idea based on the work of Freud (1856-1939) and especially … [Read more...] about Joan Miró
Doc Fortnight 2019
The Doc Fortnight international documentary film festival is at MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, Manhattan, Thu-Thu, February 21-28, 2019. $25 The Festival works to bring different points of view to New Yorkers. Doc Fortnight 2019 The opening night movie is Prun Nourry's 'Serendipity' (2018) about the filmmaker's battle with breast cancer. The closing … [Read more...] about Doc Fortnight 2019
New Directors/New Films 2018
New DIrectors / New Films is a festival of emerging filmmakers from around the world. The Festival screened talents Pedro Almodóvar and Spike Lee when nobody knew who they were. It is co-produced by Film Society of Lincoln Center and MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art. New Directors / New Films 2018 The 47th New Directors / New Films festival is March 28 - April 8, 2018 at Film … [Read more...] about New Directors/New Films 2018
Being: New Photography 2018 at MoMA
New Photography is MoMA's biennial photography exhibition. Being: New Photography 2018 Being: New Photography 2018 is at MoMA in Midtown, Manhattan daily, March 18 - August 19, 2018. Being is about how individuals are depicted and perceived. The exhibition includes work by sixteen artists from nine countries. Artists with a Latin heritage include: Sofia … [Read more...] about Being: New Photography 2018 at MoMA
El Mar La Mar
'El Mar La Mar' is an experimental film that takes viewers on a journey deep into the haunting beauty and mystery of the Sonoran Desert a major migration point along the U.S. - Mexico border. Crossing the desert is a 30 to 120 mile journey. It's the deadliest way to the enter the U.S. It's also the busiest migrant corridor. Co-director J.P. Sniadecki is from Harvard … [Read more...] about El Mar La Mar
Doc Fortnight 2018
Doc Fortnight Doc Fortnight is MoMA's annual international festival of nonfiction film. The festival focuses on innovative approaches to the documentary form including the latest technologies and delivery platforms. 17th Doc Fortnight 2018 Doc Fortnight 2018 is daily at MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, Manhattan from February 15 - 26, 2018. This year's festival … [Read more...] about Doc Fortnight 2018
Tarsila do Amaral ‘Inventing Modern Art in Brazil’ at MoMA
Tarsila do Amaral who painted with the Cubists in Paris in the 1920s, then came home to create something essentially Brazilian that helped inspire Latin American modernism. Abaporu (1929) is the painting which inspired Oswald de Andrade's Manifesto Antropófago (Cannibalist Manifesto). At a time when the whole world looked to Europe for models of modernity, the manifesto … [Read more...] about Tarsila do Amaral ‘Inventing Modern Art in Brazil’ at MoMA
Tania Bruguera : ‘Untitled’ (Havana, 2000)
Tania Bruguera : Untitled (Havana, 2000) is a performance art installation originally performed by the Cuban artist in Havana, Cuba in 2000. Tania Bruguera The Cuban-born artist (1968) produces work that questions authority. The Original Tania Bruguera : Untitled (Havana, 2000) https://youtu.be/toJWmRdYIs4 The piece was originally presented in the basements of El … [Read more...] about Tania Bruguera : ‘Untitled’ (Havana, 2000)
New Directors/New Films 2017
New Directors / New Films festival presents emerging filmmakers from around the world with dual screenings at the Museum of Modern Art and Film Society of Lincoln Center. 46th annual New Directors / New Films 2017 The 46th annual New Directors / New Films festival is March 15-26, 2017. https://youtu.be/dDFk-V_17YQ This year's main slate explores the lives of New Yorkers … [Read more...] about New Directors/New Films 2017
Paz Encina
Paz Encina, the only film director to emerge from Paraguay in recent times, is screening her two features and some shorts at MoMA Friday-Sunday, February 10-12, 2017. She will introduce the Friday and Saturday screenings. About Paz Encina Encina was born in Asuncion, Paraguay on July 9, 1971. National cinema says a lot about a country's character, and where it is at in its … [Read more...] about Paz Encina
Elle
Psychological thriller Elle by Paul Verhoeven is the French Best Foreign Language Film submission to the 89th Academy Awards to be held January 14, 2016. MoMA film is screening Elle Thursday, December 8, at 7:30pm. Elle opened at Film Society of Lincoln Center on November 9, 2016. https://youtu.be/H-iBBgcp7PY The Elle Trailer About Elle "Elle" means "she" or "her" in … [Read more...] about Elle
MoMA founds Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute
Juan Melé, (Argentine, 1923–2012). Irregular Frame no. 2. 1946. Oil on composition board, 28 × 19 3/4 × 1″ (71.1 × 50.2 × 2.5 cm). Courtesy of MoMA.October 17, 2016 ~ MoMA Director Glenn D. Lowry announced a major gift from the world-renowned Cisneros Collection and the founding of the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute at MoMA. The Cisneros gift to MoMA is New … [Read more...] about MoMA founds Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute