RANDOM PIECES FROM MOMA

1. Drawing Now : Eight Propositions by Franz Ackermann

This exhibition showcases over two hundred recent works on paper,

all carefully executed and highly finished, by twenty-six artists from
Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The small and large drawings are
executed in a wide range of mediums and include series rarely seen
in their entirety and newly commissioned, site-specific wall projects.
Some show affinities with illustration, fashion, or comic strips; others
are closer to industrial and commercial renderings; still others take
ideas from the traditions of ornament. In technique, medium, size,
scale, and imagery, the drawings are broadly diverse, but they share
an impulse: the art explored in this exhibition is not sealed inside the
realms of aesthetics and theory but refers to the languages of the life
around us, communicating information, telling stories, creating
scenarios, and conjuring newly imagined worlds.

2. The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde—From Signac to Matisse and Beyond by Felix Feneon

This painting, a masterpiece in the Museum’s collection,

will be the centerpiece of Félix Fénéon, the first
exhibition dedicated to Fénéon (1861–1944). An art critic,
editor, publisher, dealer, collector, and anarchist,
Fénéon had a wide-ranging influence on the
development of modernism in the late 19th and early
20th centuries. In the late 1880s, he played a key role in
defining the new movement known as Neo-
Impressionism, a term he coined himself, whose artists,
including Signac, used tiny dabs of color that would mix
in the eye of the viewer. Over the next five decades, he
championed the careers of artists from Georges-Pierre
Seurat and Signac to Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, and
Amedeo Modigliani. He amassed a renowned collection
of paintings by these artists and many others, and he was also a pioneering collector of art from Africa and
Oceania.
3. Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction by Clinton Adams

Making Space shines a spotlight on the stunning

achievements of women artists between the end of
World War II (1945) and the start of the Feminist
movement (around 1968). In the postwar era, societal
shifts made it possible for larger numbers of women
to work professionally as artists, yet their work was
often dismissed in the male dominated art world, and
few support networks existed for them. Abstraction
dominated artistic practice during these years, as
many artists working in the aftermath of World War II
sought an international language that might
transcend national and regional narratives—and for
women artists, additionally, those relating to gender.

4. Printin’ by Kai Althoff

Printin’ takes as its starting point DeLuxe (2005), a tour de force

portfolio of 60 works by Ellen Gallagher (American, b. 1965) that
challenged traditional ideas of what a print could be. This
technically complex work employs a veritable riot of mediums,
unorthodox tools, and elements, from slicks of greasy pomade to
plastic ice cubes. DeLuxe also offers a multivalent constellation
of ideas, touching on such issues as portraiture, identity, history,
advertising, commodity, and the disruption, translation, and
recasting of space. Proposing a kind of technical dissection and
conceptual unpacking of this portfolio, Printin’ brings together
work by more than 50 artists from multiple disciplines in a
sweeping chronology that extends from the 17th century to the
present day, to propose a free-flowing yet incisive web of
associations that are reflected in DeLuxe.

SOURCE :

https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/2606?locale=en

https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5075?locale=en

https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3663?locale=en

https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1226?locale=en

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/114847?artist_id=34460&locale=en&page=1&sov_referrer=artist