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Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters

ManhattanWed, May 2, 2012 – Mon, Sept 3, 2012

This exhibition is the U.S. premiere of Taryn Simon's photographic project A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters. The work was produced over a four-year period (2008–2011), during which the artist travelled around the world researching and documenting bloodlines and their related stories.

• Born out of Necessity

  Museum of Modern Art

  ManhattanFri, March 2, 2012 – Mon, Jan 28, 2013

  From objects that respond to pressing needs in developing countries to new solutions that are tailored to the urban environment, the exhibition examines how design intervenes across a range of experiences, including medical emergencies and natural disasters.

• Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration

  Museum of Modern Art

  ManhattanWed, March 14, 2012 – Mon, July 9, 2012

  In a collaborative, chance-based drawing game known as the exquisite corpse, Surrealist artists subjected the human body to distortions and juxtapositions that resulted in fantastic composite figures.

• Projects 97: Mark Boulos

  Museum of Modern Art

  ManhattanMon, March 19, 2012 – Mon, July 16, 2012

  Boulos’s installation "All that Is Solid Melts into Air" (2008), comprised of two large-scale videos, presents two communities on opposite ends of the world, each locked in a struggle to control oil.

• Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters

  Museum of Modern Art

  ManhattanWed, May 2, 2012 – Mon, Sept 3, 2012

  This exhibition is the U.S. premiere of Taryn Simon's photographic project A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters. The work was produced over a four-year period (2008–2011), during which the artist travelled around the world researching and documenting bloodlines and their related stories.

• Ecstatic Alphabets

  Museum of Modern Art

  ManhattanSun, May 6, 2012 – Mon, Aug 27, 2012

  Ecstatic Alphabets is a group exhibition that brings together 12 contemporary artists working in all mediums who have come to create works that belong to a distinguished history of poem/objects, and concrete language experiments that dates to the beginnings of modernism