Pass Carry Hold
Ends Feb 10, 2025
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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.
Gillian Wearing
Ends Jan 6, 2025
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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.
Hard Ground
Ends Oct 14
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Little Manila Queens
Ends Oct 21
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Image: Diana Diroy/Little Manila Queens Bayanihan Arts. We Are They (still). Image courtesy Diana Diroy/Little Manila Queens Bayanihan Arts. Video: Filmed by Elle Rinaldi; Additional Video by Mason Blake, Jam Moreno (Box Packing), Gisela Zuniga (Clothing Swap) and Ryan Santos Phillips (Clothing Swap); Video Editing by Elle Rinaldi; Production Audio by Nora Rodriguez; Graphic Design by Julia Schäfer
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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.
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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.
