John Akomfrah—whose three-chanel video installation about Stuart Hall, The UnfinishedConversation, created a sensation at MOMA in 2017—presents PURPLE, a new six-channel work on climate change.
“Symphonic in scale and divided into five interwoven movements, the film features various disappearing ecological landscapes, from the hinterlands of Alaska and the desolate environments of Greenland to the Tahitian Peninsula and the volcanic Marquesas Islands in the South Pacific…
“PURPLE conveys the complex and fragile interrelation of human and non-human life with a sense of poetic gravity that registers the vulnerability of living in precarious environments.”*
The paintings of Ben Shahn, Antonio Berni, Raquel Forner, Honoré Sharrer, and Pavel Tchelitchew, the photography of Walker Evans and George Platt Lynes, the sculpture of Elie Nadelman and Gaston Lachaise, the ballet costumes of Kurt Seligmann, Paul Cadmus, and Jared French, the music of Virgil Thomson, and the philosophy of George Gurdjieff …
… all come together in LINCOLN KIRSTEIN’S MODERN, the Museum of Modern Art exhibition devoted to the writer, critic, curator, patron, and impresario who set the aesthetic template for MOMA and brought George Balanchine to America to establish the New York City Ballet.
The show was organized by Jodi Hauptman and Samantha Friedman, who edited the exhibition catalog.
ChantalAkerman’s HISTOIRES D’AMÉRIQUES—FOOD, FAMILY AND PHILOSOPHY has been restored by the Royal Cinematheque of Belgium, and will screen once this week at MOMA.
Featuring Living Theatre founder Judith Malina, and Stranger in Paradise star Eszter Balint and her father Stephan, the film looks at Jewish history and identity on the Lower East Side.
Thursday, January 17, and Saturday, January 19, at 3 pm.
Museum of Modern Art
Marron Atruim
11 West 53rd Street, New York City.
From top: Ishmael Houston-Jones, Miguel Gutierrez, Nick Hallett, and Jennifer Monson, Variations on Themes from Lost and Found:Scenes from a Life and other works by John Bernd, 2016. Photograph by Ian Douglas; Ishmael Houston-Jones. Images courtesy the artists.
Directed by Elio Petri, the film stars Flavio Bucci as a Marxist bank clerk-turned-thief and Tognazzi as his target. The film is the third in Petri’s “social neurosis” trilogy, which includes the classic Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and The Working Class Goes toHeaven.
Below: Flavio Bucci as Total in Property is No Longer Theft.
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