THE JUNIOR ASSOCIATES 2016 AGENDA OF EVENTS
JANUARY
Wednesday 13 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. A visit with artist Lisa Oppenheim to view her exhibition Lisa Oppenheim: Gramma at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery 521 West 21 Street
Tuesday 19 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. JA25: A behind-the-scenes evening with MoMA’s Department of Archives, led by Michelle Elligott, Chief of Archives MoMA Archives Reading Room, 4 West 54 Street, Floor 6
Thursday 21 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. The Modern Party Co-hosted by The Junior Associates Celebrate MoMA’s special exhibitions and collections with private access to all galleries, including Picasso Sculpture. Tickets ($85 per person) may be purchased online. For more information, please contact MoMA’s Member Programs and Events Office at (212) 708-9721. MoMA, 11 West 53 Street
Wednesday 27 8:15 to 9:30 a.m. A private, last-chance viewing of the exhibition Picasso Sculpture. Docent-led tours will be available at 8:15 and 8:30 a.m. MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, Floor 4 FEBRUARY
Tuesday 2 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. A studio visit with artist José Parlá Gowanus, Brooklyn
Thursday 4 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. A curatorial walk-through of the exhibition Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern with Karen Grimson, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings and Prints MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, Floor 6
Monday 8 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. A behind-the-scenes evening with MoMA’s Department of Exhibition Planning, Design, and Production MoMA, 4 West 54 Street, The Celeste Bartos Theater (T3)
Wednesday 10 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Opening reception and preview of the exhibition Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, Floor 6
Thursday 18 7:00 p.m. A special screening of Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, followed by a Q&A with director Lisa Immordino Vreeland and Anne Morra, Associate Curator, Department of Film MoMA, 4 West 54 Street, The Celeste Bartos Theater (T3)
Wednesday 24 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. A curatorial walk-through of the exhibition Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015 with Quentin Bajac, The Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography, and Roxana Marcoci, Senior Curator, Department of Photography MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, Floor 3 MARCH
Wednesday 2 5:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. The Armory Show 2016 Preview Party featuring a special performance by Holy Ghost!. For more information on the Kapwani Kiwanga Armory Show Artist Commission and to purchase tickets, please contact MoMA’s Special Programming and Events Office at (212) 708-9680 or [email protected]. Further details may be found online at moma.org/armoryshow2016. MoMA, 11 West 53 Street
Wednesday 2–Sunday 6 FYI: Armory Arts Week!
Saturday 5 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Special VIP Viewing Hour of The Armory Show 2016 The Junior Associates are invited to view The Armory Show before it opens to the public at noon. Piers 92 & 94, Twelfth Avenue at 55 Street
Wednesday 16–Sunday 27 FYI: New Directors/New Films 2016 Celebrating its 45th year, the renowned New Directors/New Films festival, presented jointly by The Museum of Modern Art and The Film Society of Lincoln Center, introduces New York audiences to the work of emerging or not-yet-established filmmakers from around the world. The festival will take place in the Titus Theaters at MoMA and at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center. For more information and to buy tickets, please visit newdirectors.org. Tickets go on sale to MoMA members starting early March and will also be available at the Museum information and film desks.
Thursday 17 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. A curatorial walk-through of the exhibition Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective with Francesca Wilmott, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings and Prints MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, Floor 6
Tuesday 22 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Opening reception and preview of the exhibition Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, Floor 6
Wednesday 30 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. JA25: A conversation with artists Paul Ramirez Jonas and Nina Katchadourian about their artistic practices and work with MoMA's Department of Education through the Artists Experiment Initiative, moderated by Pablo Helguera, Director, Adult and Academic Programs MoMA, 4 West 54 Street, The Celeste Bartos Theater (T3) APRIL
Saturday 9 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. A visit with The Propeller Group artist collective to view their exhibition The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music at James Cohan Gallery 291 Grand Street
Tuesday 12 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. A curatorial walk-through of the exhibition Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty with Jodi Hauptman, Senior Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, and Karl Buchberg, Senior Conservator MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, Floor 6
Friday 15 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. FYI: A new collectors’ reception and exclusive viewing of The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) Show Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue
Wednesday 27 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. JA25: Conversation about Projects 102 with artist Neïl Beloufa and Thomas J. Lax, Associate Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art Terrace 5, MoMA, 11 West 53, Floor 4 MAY
Thursday 5–Sunday 8 FYI: Frieze New York 2016 Randall’s Island Park
Tuesday 10 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. A visit with artist Jorinde Voigt to view her exhibition Considerations in the Now at David Nolan Gallery 527 West 29 Street
Thursday 12 6:30 p.m. A studio visit with artist Will Cotton 7:30 p.m. Tribeca
Saturday 14 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. A visit to artist Duke Riley’s exhibition Fly By Night, presented by Creative Time and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Brooklyn Navy Yard, Intersection of Sands and Navy Streets
Tuesday 24 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. A curatorial walk-through of the exhibition A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA, and Beyond with Phoebe Springstubb, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, Floor 3
JUNE
Wednesday 1 Party in the Garden honoring Amanda and Glenn Fuhrman, Sally and Wynn Kramarsky, and artists Huma Bhabha, Mark Bradford, and Brice Marden. The evening will feature a live musical performance. Proceeds benefit the general operating fund of The Museum of Modern Art. Junior Associates will have the opportunity to purchase advanced, discounted tickets; information will be shared by the JA Office.
7:00 p.m. Cocktails 8:00 p.m. Dinner 9:00 p.m. After-Party MoMA, 11 West 53 Street
Thursday 9 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. A private collection visit at the home of Friends of Education members Bernard I. Lumpkin and Carmine D. Boccuzzi Tribeca
Monday 13 7:00 p.m. FYI: Conversations: Among Friends featuring artist Sam Gilliam and Jonathan Binstock, Director, University of Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery MoMA, The Celeste Bartos Theater (T3) 4 West 54 Street
Saturday 18 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. A visit with artist Derrick Adams, featuring a walk-through of his exhibition ON and a reception at Pioneer Works 125 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn
Monday 20 7:00 p.m. FYI: MoMA PS1 Benefit MoMA, 11 West 53 Street
Wednesday 22 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. A private, last-chance viewing of the exhibition Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty. A docent-led tour will be available at 8:30 a.m. MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, Floor 6
Thursday 23–Sunday 26 FYI: ArtHamptons Bridgehampton, NY
Saturday 25 JA Day Trip to Long Island City! Including a studio visit with artist Daniel Arsham, and visits to The Noguchi Museum and Socrates Sculpture Park JULY
Thursday 7–Sunday 10 FYI: Market Art + Design & Art Southampton Bridgehampton and Southampton, NY
Saturday 9 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. Sunset cocktails hosted by JA Co-Chair Kevin Meyers Sag Harbor, NY
Thursday 14 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. A private JA reception on the Library Balcony at Summer Thursdays, featuring a live musical performance by Night Beats MoMA, 4 West 54 Street, Floor 6
Tuesday 26 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. A curatorial walk-through of From the Collection: 1960–1969 with Martino Stierli, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, and Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, Floor 4 SEPTEMBER
Tuesday 6 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. New Member Welcome! A curatorial walk-through of MoMA’s Painting and Sculpture Galleries with Paulina Pobocha, Assistant Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, followed by a reception at Terrace 5. *For new members of The Junior Associates The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53 Street, Floor 5
Friday 9 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. A visit with Slavs and Tatars artist collective to view their exhibition Afteur Pasteur at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery 521 West 21 Street
Thursday 22 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. A curatorial walk-through of the exhibition BRUCE CONNER: IT’S ALL TRUE with Stuart Comer, Chief Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art, and Akili Tommasino, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53 Street, Floor 6
Tuesday 27 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. An evening with artist Alex Prager, including a screening of her film La Grande Sortie Time Warner Screening Room, The Museum of Modern Art 4 West 54 Street OCTOBER
Wednesday 5 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. Mornings in Midtown: Breakfast with Sean Anderson, Associate Curator, and Arièle Dionne- Krosnick, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, about the exhibition Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter, followed by a private viewing The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53 Street
Thursday 13 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. A visit to Printed Matter, Inc. with Executive Director Max Schumann 213 Eleventh Avenue
Tuesday 18 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. A visit with artist Spencer Finch to view his exhibition at James Cohan Gallery 533 West 26 Street
Monday 24 7:00 p.m. A studio visit with artist Rashaad Newsome 8:00 p.m Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn NOVEMBER
Wednesday 2 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. A private sunset viewing of James Turrell’s Meeting MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
Thursday 10 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. A curatorial walk-through of the exhibition Kai Althoff: and then leave me to the common swifts with Margaret Ewing, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53 Street, Floor 6
Saturday 12 — Sunday 13 The Junior Associates travel to the Berkshires! With visits to Mass MoCA, The Williams College Museum of Art, The Clark Art Institute, and more
Wednesday 16 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Opening reception and preview of the exhibition Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, Floor 6
Monday 21 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. A private collection visit at the home of Contemporary Arts Council members Eleni and Randall Gianopulos Flatiron DECEMBER
Wednesday 7 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. Mornings in Midtown: Breakfast with Juliet Kinchin, Curator, and Luke Baker, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, about the exhibition How Should We Live? Propositions for the Modern Interior, followed by a private viewing The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53 Street
Thursday 8 6:30 p.m. Winter Cocktails, hosted by Contemporary Arts 7:15 p.m Council member Howie Horowitz Upper East Side
Monday 19 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. The Junior Associates Holiday Party! The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53 Street