After the Fire is a participatory mural project by artists Nanibah Chacon, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, and Layqa Nuna Yawar.

This major exhibition of artist Ralph Lemon (b. 1952, Cincinnati) features more than forty artworks made over the last decade across disciplines and marks the debut of several collaborative performances. One of the most significant figures to emerge from New York’s downtown scene, Lemon engages deeply with the legacies of postmodern dance in the US and the capacity for storytelling through movement.

The Fortune Society: Future Freedoms marks the second exhibition at MoMA PS1 by the Long Island City-based non-profit organization that supports successful reentry from, and promotes alternatives to, incarceration.

For these gallery talks, invited guests respond to Ralph Lemon’s narrative epic, Untitled (The greatest [Black] art history story ever told. Unfinished) (2015–), a layered and colorful series of works on paper. Lemon notes: “It is clear to me that the series will never be finished. … I’ve found something that will take the rest of my life to do, because [the work] is dealing with charged places, architecture, and people historically and presently, and also in some sort of illusory future, and none of that is going to stop.”

The world premiere of Ceremonies Out of the Air debuts at MoMA PS1 this March. The work includes an extended solo performance by dancer Darrell Jones, punctuated with an artist talk by Ralph Lemon that concludes several narrative ideas in the films and objects of the Walter Carter Suite, on view in the exhibition.

MoMA PS1 presents Rant #6, the latest iteration of Lemon’s critical collaborative work. Each performance is conceived as “a very loud site-specific sound, movement, voice, Brown/Black body cultural experiment in rage, freedom and or ecstasy…” In Rant #6, funk, text, and trance movement collide in exhaustion and emphatic resistance.

Join us for a full day of free activities for all ages that celebrate the opening of four new exhibitions. Explore the cutting-edge of culture with tours, talks, and artmaking activities. Meet the artists, learn about their exhibitions, and get a behind-the-scenes understanding of how they create their work.