Retrieved from exhibition web page: American-led military engagement in Iraq over the last 30 years has had an indelible impact on contemporary culture and the work of artists around the world. This large-scale group exhibition examines the legacies of these conflicts beginning with the Gulf War in 1991, featuring over 300 works by more than 80 artists based in Iraq and its diasporas, as well as those responding to the war from the West.
Retrieved from the MoMA Press Release: Harun Farocki: Images of War (at a Distance) marks the first comprehensive solo exhibition of Berlin-based artist Harun Farocki (b. 1944, German-annexed Czechoslovakia) in a U.S. museum, and features the U.S. premiere of Serious Games I–IV (2009–10), a four–part video installation at the center of the exhibition. The exhibition reflects a recent large-scale acquisition—realized as a joint effort by MoMA’s departments of Media and Performance Art and Film—of 36 artworks, a body of work spanning four decades and including nearly all of Farocki’s videos, video installations, and films in video format.
"European Drawing Between the Wars" was an exhibition running from October 22, 1987, to March 1, 1988. It showcased a curated selection of European drawings from The Museum of Modern Art's collection.
Retrieved from the MoMA Press Release: "America Seen - Between the War," the second in a series of shows drawn entirely from the Museum of Modern Art's own collection, will open on April 25. Most of the 40 paintings from the 1920s and 30s in the exhibition have been in inaccessible storage owing to lack of space. They are double-hung in one gallery in order to emphasize the Museum' s need for an additional building with increased gallery and study-storage facilities, a goal of the current fund raising drive.
Retrieved from the MoMA Press Release: Forty-three buildings selected by the Museum of Modern Art as the most significant examples of modern architecture built in this country since 191+5 will be shown in models, photo-murals and 3-dimensional color slides in the exhibition BUILT IN U.S.A.: POST-WAR ARCHITECTURE, which will be on view in the third floor galleries of the Museum, 11 West 53 Street, from January 21 through March l5.
Retrieved from the MoMA Press Release: What has been, what might have been, and what yet may be in the war raging all over the world is graphically shown in an exhibition of War Maneuver Models created by Norman Bel Geddes for Life Magazine, which opens today (January 26, 1944) at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, to remain on view through March 5. This is the latest in a series of exhibitions directly related to the war which the Museum has shown during the past two or three years. Others in the series have been exhibitions on camouflage, occupational therapy, war housing, and the big exhibitions Road to Victory, Wartime Housing and Airways to Peace.
Retrieved from the MoMA Press Release: The war caricatures, by Adolf Hoffmeister and A. T. Peel, are being shown at the Museum for the first time anywhere. About forty in number, they constitute a savagely brilliant attack on the Axis partners, principally the Nazis, impaling them on barbs of ridicule. The exhibition will remain on view through July 11 and will then be sent on a tour of other museums and art galleries by the Museum's Circulating Exhibitions Department.
Retrieved from the MoMA Press Release: Baking pans made of paper, a cornhusk doormat, an open-top hamper-cart for the free-wheeling of groceries, a plastic sink stopper, a felt eyeglass case and many other useful objects for the civilian, particularly in non-priority glass, comprise part of the exhibition of Useful Objects in Wartime which opens at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, Wednesday, December 2. The rest of the exhibition is devoted to needs of Army and Navy men, WAACS and WAVES. A few well designed articles for civilian defense are also included. And, Just for fun even in wartime, sheets of gay-colored paperboard from which extremely modern domestic animals, dude cowboys, and other toys may be punched out and fitted ingeniously together, are shown. Everything in the exhibition sells for $10 and under.
Retrieved from the MoMA Press Release: An Exhibition of Wartime Housing will open at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, on Wednesday, April 22. The exhibition has been arranged in collaboration with the National Committee on the Housing Emergency. It will be on view through July 19. The exhibition will show by means of graphic and dramatic installation why adequate housing designed by the country's best architects is necessary to help America win the war. It will present various new methods for producing such housing with maximum speed and economy according to contemporary design.
Retrieved from the MoMA Press Release: Believing that American veterans would be interested in seeing how the World War looked at a German veteran, the Museum of Modern Art will open Tuesday, September 21, in its temporary galleries at 14 West 49 Street, an exhibition of war etchings by Otto Dix. The exhibition has been arranged to coincide with the American Legion Convention the week of September 20 but will extend for several weeks longer, possibly until November 1st.
Retrieved from the MoMA Press Release: The devastation of World War II caused a mass exodus from Europe to locations around the globe. Among the refugees who flooded into New York were artists and art dealers whose presence transformed the city’s cultural scene. These figures exchanged ideas with their American counterparts, mutually influencing each other’s work. The search for safety took artists to other places, such as Cuba, that inspired the work they made upon arriving. Those who remained in Europe—whether by choice or not—made art marked by the legacy of a shattered, war-torn continent.
The years surrounding World War II posed a creative and existential crisis, as artists struggled to respond to human, social, and cultural conditions in the wake of the horrors of combat, images of concentration camps, and the aftermath of the atomic bomb. Drawn entirely from MoMA’s collection, Soldier, Spectre, Shaman presents a range of artistic responses focused on the human figure, with the body serving as subject and object, mirror and metaphor. The exhibition features work in a variety of mediums by more than 30 international artists, including prints by David Smith and Chimei Hamada that confront the visceral realities of the battlefield landscape; Alberto Giacometti’s and Louise Bourgeois’s sculptures of spectral, shadowed, or dissolving bodies; Shomei Tomatsu’s post-atomic bomb photographs; and visions of mystical, divine, or otherworldly forms by Henri Michaux, Henry Darger, and Jeanne Reynal.
9 Scripts from a Nation at War (2007), a 10-channel video installation recently acquired by MoMA, marks the first work for which artists Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, Katya Sander, and David Thorne have collaborated. The work responds to knowledge production and communication in the context of the Iraq war since the initial invasion by U.S. military forces in March 2003. The 10 videos comprising the large-scale, spatial installation cast inquiry into the position of the individual amidst roles constructed by war. Each video stages the speaking of a script from the following perspectives: citizen, blogger, correspondent, veteran, student, actor, interviewer, lawyer, detainee, and source. The scripts are enacted by both actors and non-actors, some speaking their own words, some reciting the words of others. Displayed as projections and seated viewing stations in a circuitous, non-narrative structure, the performative videos create a charged environment questioning the implications of war on individual and collective subjectivity.
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is pleased to extend the exhibition date for Disasters of War: Francisco de Goya, Henry Darger, Jake and Dinos Chapman to March 25, 2001. Disasters of War, curated by P.S.1 Senior Curator Klaus Biesenbach, debuted this summer at Kunst-Werke, Berlin and featured Jake and Dinos Chapman's etchings Gigantic Fun for the first time alongside its inspiration, an original cycle of the Desastres de la Guerra by Francisco de Goya. The Chapmans' Gigantic Fun consists of 83 etchings never before exhibited in this country. The exhibition's U.S. incarnation will also include never before exhibited works by American artist Henry Darger.
Retrieved from the MoMA Press Release: "Between World Wars," an exhibition of drawings by 66 artists working in Europe and the United States between 1918 and 1939, is on view in the third floor Paul J. Sachs Galleries of The Museum of Modern Art through November 14. The exhibition, drawn from the Museum's extensive collection and including several recent acquisitions, is part of a continuing series which explores historical aspects of the Museum's holdings of works on paper.
Retrieved from the MoMA Press Release: More than 100 enlargements from negatives by 25 photographers will depict the impact of war in Korea in an exhibition organized by Edward Steichen, Director of the Museum's Department of Photography, to go on view on February 14. Work to be shown was done by photographers for Life Magazine, The Associated Press, Acmo, International News Photos, and by the Array, Navy, Air Corps and The Marine Corps. It will be exhibited in the first floor galleries through April 22.
Retrieved from the MoMA Press Release: "I had a lot of time to think while I was in service, I decided that life should be more than routine living and grubbing for money, and I promised myself that if I ever came out alive I was going to do a lot of the things that are worthwhile. Art is one of them. That's why I'm here!" This remark by an ex-infantryman best expresses the motive of returned service men and women in Joining the War Veterans' Art Center. On Wednesday, September 26, the Center will show the fruits of its first year's work in an exhibition Art for War Veterans opening in the auditorium galleries of the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, where it will remain on view through November 25.
Retrieved from the MoMA Press Release: Under the auspices of the Armed Services Program of the Museum of Modern Art an exhibition of American Battle Painting; 1776-1918 will be held at the Museum from September 27 through November 12. Planned in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the exhibition reveals the continuing American tradition, from the Revolutionary War through World War I, of the use of artists to record war.
Retrieved from the MoMA Press Release: Enemy submarines permitting, Britain At War, an exhibition of sixty paintings and drawings made by British artists during the past few months, will open to the public Wednesday, November 20,1941 at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street.
Retrieved from the MoMA Press Release: The Exhibition of War in Spain consists of about 75 drawings of the Spanish Civil War by Luis Quintanilla, who left Teruel in January 1938 to come to this country. Ernest Hemingway has supplied the foreword for the folder the Museum is publishing in conjunction with the exhibition.
