Moma Talks: Performances And Readings

Friday, June 28, 2013, 3:00 p.m. Kenneth Goldsmith reads from his recent book Seven American Deaths and Disasters in front of Andy Warhol's Orange Car Crash Fourteen Times. As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 12:30 p.m. Maria Mirabal reads recent poetry. Vito Acconci reads poems followed by design/architecture notes. As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 12:30 p.m. As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 1:30 p.m. Christian Bok reads a selection of Futurist poetry and his own work. As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 1:30 p.m. Vanessa Place does a reading of The Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund Gallery, floor 4. As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 12:30 p.m. Stefan Sagmeister reads Jonathan Haidt's The Happiness Hypothesis in front of Henry Matisse's Dance (1) (1909), Gallery 6, floor 5. As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 12:30 p.m. Stephen Burt reads in front of Meret Oppenheim's Red Head, Blue Body (gallery 12, floor 5). Burt reads new poems, including "Fundamental Attribution Error (Meret Oppenheim + Stephanie)," "1978 Stephanie," "Day and Night Stephanie," and poems from Belmont and Parallel Play. As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013, 12:30 p.m. Maira Kalman reads small vignettes that she has written about her family in front of Joseph Beuys's Felt Suit (Filzanzug) (1970). As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

Friday, April 5, 2013, 3:00 p.m. Kenneth Goldsmith reads selections from Charles Reznikoff's Holocaust (1975) in front of Edvard Munch's The Scream (1895). As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

Wednesday, April 3, 2013, 12:30 p.m. Bernstein reads Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven, the Russian Futurists, Marsden Hartley, Francis Picabia, Wasily Kandinsky, Kurt Schwitters, Guillaume Apollinaire, F.T. Marinetti, and his own work in the exhibition Inventing Abstraction: 1910–1925. As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 12:30 p.m. Eileen Myles reads "dog poems" in front of Picasso's Three Musicians (1921). As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013, 1:30 p.m. Steven Zultanski reads from his book Agony in front of Claude Monet's Water Lilies, (1914–26), Gallery 8, fifth floor. As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013, 12:30 p.m. Julavits tells stories about her own objects—from a typewriter to a nutcracker—in the exhibition Inventing Abstraction: 1910–1925. As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

Friday, March 22, 2013, 3:00 p.m. Kenneth Goldsmith reads excerpts from Richard Prince's The Catcher in the Rye in front of the Richard Prince work in the second-floor Contemporary Galleries, gallery 2. As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013, 1:30 p.m. Rick Moody sings, plays guitar, and reads found and process-oriented texts in front of Mark Rothko's No. 3, gallery 16, fourth floor. As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013, 12:30 p.m. CA Conrad reads (Soma)tic poetry in front of a Giacomo Balla painting in Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925. As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

February 27, 2013 1:30 p.m. David Wondrich reads two pieces from The New York Sun, "Seen on a Bridge Train: Seven Little Girls and a Man with a Very Large Jag" (1896) and "Louis’s Loaded Billy Goat: Togo Torpedoes Hobos who Libeled the Lunch" (1905) in front of Paul Strand’s Manahatta in the Shaping of New Visions exhibition, third-floor Photography Galleries. After a brief career as a Shakespeare professor and a briefer one as a jazz critic for The Village Voice and The New York Times, David Wondrich fell into a job writing about drinks for Esquire magazine, an occupation he has happily persevered in ever since. Widely acknowledged as the world’s top authority on the history of the cocktail and one of the founders of the modern craft-cocktail movement, Dr. Wondrich (he has a PhD in comparative literature) is the author of countless newspaper and magazine articles and five books, including Imbibe! (2007), the first cocktail book to win a James Beard award, and Punch, released in 2010 to wide acclaim. As p

February 27, 2013 12:30 p.m. Melissa Clark reads "On Murdering Eels and Laundering Swine," by Betty Fussell, in front of Yayoi Kusama’s Accumulation No. 1, in Gallery 19, fourth floor Melissa Clark writes about cuisine and other products of appetite. She earned an MFA in writing from Columbia University, and began a freelance food-writing career in 1994. Since then her work has been honored with awards by the James Beard Foundation and IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals), and been selected for the Best American Food Writing of 2007. She recently joined the staff of The New York Times, where she writes the popular Dining Section column A Good Appetite. In addition, Clark has written 33 cookbooks, many of them in collaboration with some of New York’s most celebrated chefs. Her latest cookbook, Cook This Now, a collection of seasonally inspired recipes, was published by Hyperion in 2011. Uncontested Spaces: Guerilla Readings in the MoMA Galleries As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laur

March 13, 2013 12:30 p.m. Uncontested Spaces: Guerilla Readings in the MoMA Galleries As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's "Poet Laureate" program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. The bibliography for this guerrilla reading includes Kieran Daly, “House Plays/Curtain Raisers”; Donald Judd, “Some aspects of color in general and red and black in particular”; Frank Kuenstler, “In Which”; Frank Kuenstler, “Continued”; Frank Kuenstler, “Miscellany”; Tan Lin, “7 Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking”; and Narayan Khandekar, Eleonora Nagy, Julian Miller, Pia Gottschaller, and Carl Mancusi-Ungaro, "The Re-Restoration of Donald Judd's Untitled, 1965." Tan Lin is the author of more t

March 8, 2013 12:30 p.m. Uncontested Spaces: Guerilla Readings in the MoMA Galleries As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.