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Curators, scholars, and artists discuss modern and contemporary art. To view images of these artworks, please visit the Online Collection at moma.org/collection.

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MoMA Talks: Conversations episodes:

10.16.2013
Artist Talk: Scott Snibbe
Media artist and filmmaker Scott Snibbe and his collaborator Lukas Girling discuss their work and its relationship to sound in space, with a particular focus on REWORK_(Philip Glass Remixed) [GLASS MACHINE], which is featured at MoMA Studio.
10.16.2013
Artist Talk: Joe McKay
Artist Joe McKay discusses his work and its relationship to sound in space, with a particular focus on Light Wave and Tweetagraph, his interactive installations in MoMA Studio.
10.16.2013
Modern Poets: Poetry Is Risk: A Performance with Augusto de Campos and Cid Campos
Legendary Brazilian poet and founder of the Concrete poetry movement Augusto de Campos and his son, the musician Cid Campos, present a multimedia performance of text, music, and, image. Working within the expanded territory of poetry, Augusto de Campos uses...
07.03.2013
Trisha Donnelly- Conversations with Contemporary Artists Series
Friday, November 10, 2006 6:30 p.m. Trisha Donnelly's photographs, drawings, and video, sound, and performance art challenge viewers to consider the meaning of signs, logic, and narrative. Through gestures, expressions, and the passage of time, she cryptically reveals imaginary languages and belief...
11.21.2012
Pedagogy: Whole Schooling
Paul Bartow and J. Morgan Puett in conversation.
12.20.2011
Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Art and the Changing Middle East: Negar Azimi and William Wells
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 6:00 p.m. Negar Azimi, Senior Editor, Bidoun Projects (a not-for-profit publishing, curatorial, and educational initiative), and William Wells, Director, Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, discuss how artists and institutions in the Middle East are engaging with and...
06.10.2011
Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Social Practice: Paul Ramírez Jonas
Thursday, April 28, 2011 6:00 PM New York–based artist Paul Ramírez Jonas, whose work examines the interaction between artist and audience, discusses his artistic practice with Carol Becker, Professor of the Arts and Dean of Columbia University School of the...
05.27.2011
Contemporary Art Forum: Art Speech—A Symposium on Symposia, Day 2
Saturday, May 21, 2011 9:30 AM This two-day program brings together artists, art historians, scholars, critics, writers, and speech and performance studies experts to discuss possible frameworks for better understanding issues surrounding art speech and methods for being direct and...
05.27.2011
Contemporary Art Forum: Art Speech—A Symposium on Symposia, Day 1
Friday, May 20, 2011 1:00 PM This two-day program brings together artists, art historians, scholars, critics, writers, and speech and performance studies experts to discuss possible frameworks for better understanding issues surrounding art speech and methods for being direct and...
05.13.2011
Artists Present at Noon Part 5
Discussion with Peter Eleey Monday, May 09, 2011 12:00 PM Join us for Artists Present at Noon, the second in a special two-part series of talks by contemporary artists. In sessions consisting of short and dynamic presentations of 20 images,...
05.13.2011
Artists Present at Noon Part 4
Alexandre Singh Monday, May 09, 2011 12:00 PM Join us for Artists Present at Noon, the second in a special two-part series of talks by contemporary artists. In sessions consisting of short and dynamic presentations of 20 images, 25 seconds per...
05.13.2011
Artists Present at Noon Part 3
Matt Keeganr Monday, May 09, 2011 12:00 PM Join us for Artists Present at Noon, the second in a special two-part series of talks by contemporary artists. In sessions consisting of short and dynamic presentations of 20 images, 25 seconds...
05.13.2011
Artists Present at Noon Part 2
Angie Keefer Monday, May 09, 2011 12:00 PM Join us for Artists Present at Noon, the second in a special two-part series of talks by contemporary artists. In sessions consisting of short and dynamic presentations of 20 images, 25 seconds...
05.13.2011
Artists Present at Noon Part 1
Introduction and Alejandro Cesarco Monday, May 09, 2011 12:00 PM Join us for Artists Present at Noon, the second in a special two-part series of talks by contemporary artists. In sessions consisting of short and dynamic presentations of 20 images,...
05.13.2011
Disseminating Expressionism: The Role of Prints, 1905–1924
Friday, May 6, 2011 1:00–5:00 PM This half-day symposium centers on the potential of the print as a medium for the dissemination of art and ideas. We will address the print’s ability to represent formal innovations and aesthetic goals, to...
04.29.2011
Artists Present at Noon
April 04, 2011 12:00 PM Join us for Artists Present at Noon, a special two-part series of talks by 10 artists. In sessions consisting of short and dynamic presentations of 20 images, 25 seconds per image, loosely modeled on an...
04.29.2011
Warhol, On Screen, Off Screen
March 03, 2011 06:00 PM Writer John Giorno, who conceived of the Giorno Poetry Systems, will read his own poetic works inspired by the life and times of Andy Warhol, followed by artist Conrad Ventur screening his contemporary screen test...
04.29.2011
Abstract Expressionism Reconsidered: A Roundtable Discussion
Abstract Expressionism Reconsidered: A Roundtable Discussion Thursday, March 10, 2011, 6:30 p.m. Theater 3 The work of the Abstract Expressionists during the postwar period in New York was characterized by the deep conviction that contemporary painting could be not only...
03.17.2011
From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: The High Rise and Decline of Low-Income Housing in America
Housing crises repeatedly plagued poor, often minority Americans during the twentieth century, from overcrowded, unsanitary speculative tenement buildings to crime-ridden high-rise public housing projects. The architectural failings of much low-income housing, such as inadequate ventilation, deficient plumbing, shoddy construction, and...
02.17.2011
Modern Poets: The Political Line
Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 6:00 p.m. Theater 3 (The Celeste Bartos Theater), mezzanine, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building Revitalizing Frank O'Hara's legacy and MoMA's historical commitment to poetry, this series invites poets and performers...
02.17.2011
Dorothy Miller and Frank O’Hara: Championing Abstract Expressionism at MoMA
Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 6:00 p.m. Theater 3 (The Celeste Bartos Theater), mezzanine, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building Wendy Jeffers, curator, independent scholar and at work on a biography of Dorothy Miller titled Dorothy...
02.17.2011
Crossing the Line: Drawing and Its Extension (Part 2)
Part 2 of 2 This half-day symposium, held in conjunction with the exhibition On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, explores the extended field of drawing by analyzing the development of line throughout the century in two panel discussions. "From...
02.17.2011
Crossing the Line: Drawing and Its Extension (Part 1)
Part 1 of 2 This half-day symposium, held in conjunction with the exhibition On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, explores the extended field of drawing by analyzing the development of line throughout the century in two panel discussions. "From...
02.17.2011
Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Reinventing Artist Communities (Andrea Zittel with Peter Reed)
Wednesday, November 17, 2010, 6:00 p.m. Theater 3 (The Celeste Bartos Theater), mezzanine, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building Join leading contemporary artists as they discuss their work, the creative process, and issues in contemporary...
02.10.2011
From the Earth Up: Architecture as a Social Catalyst
Thursday, November 11, 2010, 6:00 p.m. Theater 3 (The Celeste Bartos Theater), mezzanine, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building Architect Francis Kéré’s design for a school in Gando, Burkina Faso, and artist Harun Farocki’s documentary...
02.10.2011
Oliver Sacks: The Island of Rota
Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 6:00 p.m. Theater 1 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1), T1 Neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks reads from his book The Island of the Colorblind, elaborating on oceanic islands, evolution, and plant life, and...
02.10.2011
Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Reinventing Artist Communities
Monday, November 8, 2010, 6:00 p.m. Theater 3 (The Celeste Bartos Theater), mezzanine, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building Join leading contemporary artists as they discuss their work, the creative process, and issues in contemporary...
12.03.2010
The Original Copy: A Panel Discussion on Photography and Sculpture
Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 6:00 p.m. This panel discussion is moderated by Roxana Marcoci, curator of the exhibition, The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today. Panelists include George Baker, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Vice...
12.03.2010
Greater New York 2010: Artists Present: Q & A (7 of 7)
Part I of a series of talks by ten artists represented in MoMA PS1's Greater New York 2010 , (May 23–October 18), an exhibition of work by artists in the New York metropolitan area who engage in a wide range...
12.03.2010
Greater New York 2010: Artists Present: Michele Abeles (6 of 7)
Part I of a series of talks by ten artists represented in MoMA PS1's Greater New York 2010 , (May 23–October 18), an exhibition of work by artists in the New York metropolitan area who engage in a wide range...
12.03.2010
Greater New York 2010: Artists Present: Erin Shirreff (5 of 7)
Part I of a series of talks by ten artists represented in MoMA PS1's Greater New York 2010 , (May 23–October 18), an exhibition of work by artists in the New York metropolitan area who engage in a wide range...
12.03.2010
Greater New York 2010: Artists Present: Pinar Yolaçan (4 of 7)
Part I of a series of talks by ten artists represented in MoMA PS1's Greater New York 2010 , (May 23–October 18), an exhibition of work by artists in the New York metropolitan area who engage in a wide range...
12.03.2010
Greater New York 2010: Artists Present: David Benjamin Sherry (3 of 7)
Part I of a series of talks by ten artists represented in MoMA PS1's Greater New York 2010 , (May 23–October 18), an exhibition of work by artists in the New York metropolitan area who engage in a wide range...
12.03.2010
Greater New York 2010: Artists Present: Xaviera Simmons (2 of 7)
Part I of a series of talks by ten artists represented in MoMA PS1's Greater New York 2010 , (May 23–October 18), an exhibition of work by artists in the New York metropolitan area who engage in a wide range...
12.03.2010
Greater New York 2010: Artists Present: Amir Mogharabi (5 of 7)
Part II of a series of talks by ten artists represented in MoMA PS1's Greater New York 2010 , (May 23–October 18), an exhibition of work by artists in the New York metropolitan area who engage in a wide range...
12.03.2010
Greater New York 2010: Artists Present: Ryan McNamara (4 of 7)
Part II of a series of talks by ten artists represented in MoMA PS1's Greater New York 2010 , (May 23–October 18), an exhibition of work by artists in the New York metropolitan area who engage in a wide range...
12.03.2010
Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Artist's Choice I: Danh Vo and Julie Ault
Monday, May 10, 2010 6:30 PM Artist Danh Vo invites artist Julie Ault to join him in a conversation about his practice and the contexts he explores in his work, as well as various points of connection between both artists'...
12.03.2010
The Scroll and the Story of the Three Gorges
December 07, 2009, 6:00 PM Almost every year, MoMA’s Library Council publishes a specially printed artist’s book to explore the genre and to benefit the Library and Museum Archives. This year, as an alternative form of artist’s book, the Council...
12.03.2010
Conceptual Art and Photography: James Welling in Conversation with Jan Dibbets
October 5, 2009, 6:30 P.M. Many artists include photography in their work, but they very often do so using a non-traditional approach. Dutch artist Jan Dibbets does not consider himself a photographer, although he has used the process extensively in...
12.03.2010
Gabriel Orozco
Thursday, February 11, 2010 12:30 PM Gabriel Orozco (Mexican, b. 1962) emerged at the beginning of the 1990s as one of the most intriguing and original artists of his generation—and one of the last to come of age in the...
12.03.2010
Mobile Matrix and Other Experiments
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 6:30 PM Mobile Matrix, one of Gabriel Orozco's most ambitious projects, involved the retrieval and transformation of a whale skeleton now on view at MoMA. Marco Bassols, Mexico City–based curator and exhibition designer; Molly Nesbit, Professor...
12.03.2010
A Conversation between Briony Fer, Gabriel Orozco, and Ann Temkin
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 6:30 PM Briony Fer, Professor of History of Art, University College, London, and Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture and organizer of the exhibition Gabriel Orozco engage the artist...
12.03.2010
Conversations With Contemporary Artists: Teresa Margolles
Thursday, July 9, 2009 6:30 P.M. Teresa Margolles, one of the foremost artists working in Mexico today, is representing her country at this year’s Venice Biennale. In this program, presented in collaboration with the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York,...
12.03.2010
Greater New York 2010: Artists Present: Liz Magic Laser (3 of 7)
Part II of a series of talks by ten artists represented in MoMA PS1's Greater New York 2010 , (May 23–October 18), an exhibition of work by artists in the New York metropolitan area who engage in a wide range...
12.03.2010
Who's a Filmmaker? Cinema beyond the Darkened Room
Wednesday, May 6, 2009. 6:30 PM This program examines the fluidity of boundaries in film. Art and film critics and museum curators address the idea of cinema in the art world, where attitudes toward the moving image seem...
12.03.2010
Myths of the West: Photographers, Filmmakers, and Writers
Tuesday, March 31, 2009. 6:30 PM In conjunction with Into the Sunset, which examines how photography has pictured the idea of the American West from 1850 to the present, this panel features photographers, a filmmaker, and a writer...
12.03.2010
5 x 20 x 20 (5/21/2009; Part 6 of 6): Q&A
Part 6 of 6: Q&A A special series of talks in the format of Pecha Kucha, an informal Japanese lecture style. In each session, approximately five artists who are represented in MoMA's collection discuss twenty slides of their work, twenty...
12.03.2010
5 x 20 x 20 (5/21/2009; Part 5 of 6): Stephen Sollins
Part 5 of 6: Stephen Sollins A special series of talks in the format of Pecha Kucha, an informal Japanese lecture style. In each session, approximately five artists who are represented in MoMA's collection discuss twenty slides of their work,...
12.03.2010
5 x 20 x 20 (5/21/2009; Part 4 of 6): Simone Shubuck
Part 4 of 6: Simone Shubuck A special series of talks in the format of Pecha Kucha, an informal Japanese lecture style. In each session, approximately five artists who are represented in MoMA's collection discuss twenty slides of their work,...
12.03.2010
5 x 20 x 20 (5/21/2009; Part 3 of 6): Joan Banach
Part 3 of 6: Joan Banach A special series of talks in the format of Pecha Kucha, an informal Japanese lecture style. In each session, approximately five artists who are represented in MoMA's collection discuss twenty slides of their work,...

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MoMA Talks: Conversations episodes:

Artist Talk: Scott Snibbe

Artist Talk: Joe McKay

Modern Poets: Poetry Is Risk: A Performance with Augusto de Campos and Cid Campos

Trisha Donnelly- Conversations with Contemporary Artists Series

Pedagogy: Whole Schooling

Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Art and the Changing Middle East: Negar Azimi and William Wells

Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Social Practice: Paul Ramírez Jonas

Contemporary Art Forum: Art Speech—A Symposium on Symposia, Day 2

Contemporary Art Forum: Art Speech—A Symposium on Symposia, Day 1

Artists Present at Noon Part 5

Artists Present at Noon Part 4

Artists Present at Noon Part 3

Artists Present at Noon Part 2

Artists Present at Noon Part 1

Disseminating Expressionism: The Role of Prints, 1905–1924

Artists Present at Noon

Warhol, On Screen, Off Screen

Abstract Expressionism Reconsidered: A Roundtable Discussion

From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: The High Rise and Decline of Low-Income Housing in America

Modern Poets: The Political Line

Dorothy Miller and Frank O’Hara: Championing Abstract Expressionism at MoMA

Crossing the Line: Drawing and Its Extension (Part 2)

Crossing the Line: Drawing and Its Extension (Part 1)

Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Reinventing Artist Communities (Andrea Zittel with Peter Reed)

From the Earth Up: Architecture as a Social Catalyst

Oliver Sacks: The Island of Rota

Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Reinventing Artist Communities

The Original Copy: A Panel Discussion on Photography and Sculpture

Greater New York 2010: Artists Present: Q & A (7 of 7)

Greater New York 2010: Artists Present: Michele Abeles (6 of 7)

Greater New York 2010: Artists Present: Erin Shirreff (5 of 7)

Greater New York 2010: Artists Present: Pinar Yolaçan (4 of 7)

Greater New York 2010: Artists Present: David Benjamin Sherry (3 of 7)

Greater New York 2010: Artists Present: Xaviera Simmons (2 of 7)

Greater New York 2010: Artists Present: Amir Mogharabi (5 of 7)

Greater New York 2010: Artists Present: Ryan McNamara (4 of 7)

Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Artist's Choice I: Danh Vo and Julie Ault

The Scroll and the Story of the Three Gorges

Conceptual Art and Photography: James Welling in Conversation with Jan Dibbets

Gabriel Orozco

Mobile Matrix and Other Experiments

A Conversation between Briony Fer, Gabriel Orozco, and Ann Temkin

Conversations With Contemporary Artists: Teresa Margolles

Greater New York 2010: Artists Present: Liz Magic Laser (3 of 7)

Who's a Filmmaker? Cinema beyond the Darkened Room

Myths of the West: Photographers, Filmmakers, and Writers

5 x 20 x 20 (5/21/2009; Part 6 of 6): Q&A

5 x 20 x 20 (5/21/2009; Part 5 of 6): Stephen Sollins

5 x 20 x 20 (5/21/2009; Part 4 of 6): Simone Shubuck

5 x 20 x 20 (5/21/2009; Part 3 of 6): Joan Banach