NYC Arts: The Complete Guide to Art and Culture

Diego Rivera: Murals for the Museum of Modern Art

ManhattanSun, Nov 13, 2011 – Mon, May 14, 2012

This exhibition brings together key works made for Rivera’s 1931 exhibition, presenting them at MoMA for the first time in nearly 80 years. Along with mural panels, the show includes full-scale drawings, smaller working drawings, archival materials related to the commission and production of these works, and designs for Rivera’s famous Rockefeller Center mural, which he also produced while he was working at the museum.

• Shaping Modernity: Design 1880–1980

  Museum of Modern Art

  ManhattanOngoing

  The new installation of the Architecture and Design Galleries features a selection of visionary objects, graphics, architectural fragments and textiles from the museum’s collection that reveal the attempts of successive generations to shape their experience of living in the modern world.

• Plywood: Material, Process, Form

  Museum of Modern Art

  ManhattanWed, Feb 2, 2011 – Mon, Feb 27, 2012

  Archival photographs illuminate the process of design and manufacture in plywood. Iconic furniture by Alvar Aalto, Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, and Arne Jacobsen appear alongside organic platters by Tapio Wirkkala (1951), Sori Yanagi’s Butterfly Stool (1956), an architectural model for a prefabricated house by Marcel Breuer (1943), and experimental designs for plywood in the aeronautics industry.

• Gifted: Collectors and Drawings at MoMA, 1929–1983

  Museum of Modern Art

  ManhattanWed, Oct 19, 2011 – Mon, Feb 13, 2012

  This exhibition examines the history of MoMA’s drawings collection through key gifts from donors whose connections with the museum helped shape the institution from its earliest days.

• Diego Rivera: Murals for the Museum of Modern Art

  Museum of Modern Art

  ManhattanSun, Nov 13, 2011 – Mon, May 14, 2012

  This exhibition brings together key works made for Rivera’s 1931 exhibition, presenting them at MoMA for the first time in nearly 80 years. Along with mural panels, the show includes full-scale drawings, smaller working drawings, archival materials related to the commission and production of these works, and designs for Rivera’s famous Rockefeller Center mural, which he also produced while he was working at the museum.

• Projects 96: Haris Epaminonda

  Museum of Modern Art

  ManhattanThurs, Nov 17, 2011 – Mon, Feb 20, 2012

  This exhibition presents Haris Epaminonda's three-channel video installation Tarahi IIII, V, VI (2007), part of an ongoing series that enlists the use of reverse shooting, montage, cuts, superimposition, and repetition of motifs to address the permeability of memory.