Hard Ground
Ends Oct 14
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Jerry the Marble Faun
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Filmed by Elle Rinaldi ; Video Editing by Elle Rinaldi; Audio Recording by Nora Rodriguez; Graphic Design by Julia Schäfer; Music: Etude 13 LaSalle by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue); Original score by Dan Langa
Jerry Torre has lived in Sunnyside, Queens for 25 years. When he moved in, this garden was weeds and concrete. He slowly transformed it into a verdant respite—and it wasn’t his first time! You may know Jerry as the gardener of Grey Gardens, where he earned his nickname: Jerry the Marble Faun. In addition to his excellence as a gardener, Jerry carves sculptures from stone sourced from demolition sites around New York. His intricately carved limestone works are now on view in Hard Ground through October 14, 2024.
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Melissa Cody on Weaving and Video Games
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Filmed by Elle Rinaldi; Additional footage courtesy of the Hammer Museum; Video Editing by Elle Rinaldi; Audio Recording by Nora Rodriguez; Graphic Design by Julia Schäfer
Navajo weaving has always reflected the culture and politics in which it was created. And when you grow up in the 1980s, that culture includes Mario Kart, Pac-Man, and Contra. See how Melissa Cody’s vibrant weavings draw from her childhood mastery of video games, and how the artist joins a long lineage of innovation and evolution in weaving tradition.
Little Manila Queens
Ends Oct 21
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Warm Up Cassette Tape Archive
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“When I first started at PS1, this was one of the first things you showed me,” remarks Nick Scavo, MoMA PS1 Senior Project Manager, Music, Performance and Events. “This mysterious box with tapes, floppy disks, flyers. There’s a beer koozie in there as well.”
Scavo joins MoMA PS1 Assistant Curator Kari Rittenbach and Thomas Laprade, co-director of Montez Press Radio and member of the 2024 Warm Up host committee, for a listening session of cassette tapes sourced from the museum’s archives. The tapes, many of which are partially or totally unlabeled, include recordings from some of the earliest Warm Up performances in the PS1 courtyard.
Warm Up began in 1998, just one year after rewritable compact-disc technology became widely available as a digital storage solution. Hear Rittenbach and Scavo discuss the evolution of Warm Up and the audio integrity of cassette tape ribbon, alongside commentary from special guest and former PS1 Curatorial Assistant Maika Pollack, now Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Syracuse University Art Museum. Listen to the conversation on Montez Press Radio or below.
Hear Kari Rittenbach and Nick Scavo on Montez Press Radio
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In Conversation with Reynaldo Rivera
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Reynaldo Rivera’s work has immortalized the colorful figures circling through his orbit since the early 1980s, when he first began using his camera to record their dreams and desires. His photography refutes the medium’s specious objectivity, reflecting the atmosphere of the surrounding environment by making use of available light—both natural and artificial—as well as shadow.
Rivera’s first solo museum exhibition, Fistful of Love/También la belleza, includes never-before-seen photographs from the artist’s archive, alongside a film newly edited from Hi8 footage. His photographs—which are included in MoMA’s collection—are informed by the drama and deep emotion of boleros and rancheras, the glamor of Old Hollywood and the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, and earlier trailblazers in photography like Nadar, Brassaï and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Rivera joined guest curator Lauren Mackler and MoMA PS1 assistant curator Kari Rittenbach to discuss the exhibition, revealing the stories behind some of his subjects (often friends or lovers), what it means to publicly exhibit his very personal “blue” series, and the experience of looking back on the past three decades of his work.
Read the full conversation at the link below.
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Stewart Uoo’s Set Design for Warm Up 2024
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Stewart Uoo
(American, b. 1985)
Contemplating Non-Dualism IV (Triptych) 2024
Acrylic, pigment, and collaged canvas
Used Sun (Eclipse) 2024
HDU foam, epoxy, glass and acrylic tiles, hardware, and motor
Untitled (After Tony Walton for Diana Ross: Live In Central Park 1983) 2024
Silk, thread, acrylic paint, epoxy, and glass tiles
Set design for Warm Up
Courtesy the artist and 47 Canal, New York
For this Warm Up season, New York City-based artist Stewart Uoo conceived a three-part modular setting for the museum terrace: a spinning mirror-tiled sculpture, hanging panels of brilliantly dyed silk, and a psychedelic DJ booth to be graced by performers in MoMA PS1’s iconic summer music series. Riffing on the alternate history of New York School painting as backgrounds for dance theater and social performance, Uoo stains the Warm Up stage in a summery palette of radical optimism. With references that include both canonical and subversive artistic interventions in the performing arts—by Cy Twombly (Bacchus, 2011) and Martin Wong (Peking on Acid, c. 1970s), among others—the main components of his outdoor installation approach the scale of architecture via painting. Suspended at the center of the installation, a custom sculpture based on a found tire flaunts inlaid mirror tiles that cast luminous track prints in their wake. Uoo’s polychromatic triptych on the DJ booth doubles as a conceptual altarpiece, encouraging crowds to dissolve into the light, haze, and heat each Friday night—and let the rhythm take over.
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On Pacita Abad
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Photo: Marissa Alper; Video: Carlton Bright
“I’m glad we’ve unlearned enough now to really appreciate the ambition of [Pacita’s] universe."— Pio Abad
Last month, we hosted a panel on Pacita Abad’s life and legacy as part of our Open House. Featuring Ruba Katrib, Joan Kee, and Pio Abad, the panel delves into the rise of Pacita’s visibility within the art world, the intimacy with which she depicted her subjects, and so much more. Watch the full video above, and plan your visit to see Pacita Abad, on view through September 2.
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LAST SUMMER
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Relive Warm Up 2023 when you stream LAST SUMMER, a compilation of select live performances from the program. Featuring artists Dreamcrusher, Bergsonist, Dosha, nudo, and Embaci, the release celebrates MoMA PS1’s legendary summer music series, which has hosted avant-garde and experimental performers across genres for 25 years. The album is released on Nina Protocol, a distribution platform co-founded by Mike Pollard, a member of the 2023 Warm Up Host Committee. Available for free, the exclusive release invites fans worldwide to experience the performances anew.
Established in 2021, Nina Protocol supports independent music culture by providing musicians, labels, and listeners with fair and sustainable tools. Nina Protocol is a public, dynamic social network and music archive that allocates 100% of sales to artists.
Bergsonist / Bizaarbazaar, Optimo Music / Morocco/ New York
Selwa Abd, also known as Bergsonist, is a Moroccan-born artist, composer, and creative director based in New York. She utilizes intuitive techniques to explore multifaceted themes of identity, social politics, and technology across various mediums, including video, design, audiovisual performances, and music composition. In her sound performances, she blends electronic manipulations with acoustic sounds, drawing inspiration from musique concrète and other musical traditions.
Dosha / House of Ladosha / New York
Dosha hails from House of Ladosha (est. 2007), a New York City-based artistic collective and musical entity that works in video installation, performance art, drag, and music.
nudo / american southwest / Texas
nudo (est. 2017) is the collaborative musical duo of Joaquin Tenorio (lives Ciudad Juarez) and Eric Hernandez (lives Eagle Pass). The pair inverts regional, Tejano, and norteño sounds as a means of emphasizing the deeply irregular and hybridized phrasings, play styles, traditions, and mythologies encrypted therein.
Embaci / New York
Embaci is an artist, performer, and composer of Caribbean descent and recognized for her celestial voice and lyricism.. Since her debut with the music collective NON-Worldwide, she has established herself as an international multidisciplinary virtuoso.