MoMA PS1

Jumana Manna: A Magical Substance Flows Into Me

“The double bind of a lot of the archival materials that I deal with is that they are documents of a culture that might have changed or not been preserved, but they are also part of the history of erasure. And it's that double edge-ness that I'm interested in.” – @JumanaManna 📽️ Jumana Manna's film "A Magical Substance Flows Into Me," is available to stream from September 28—October 12 as part of @themuseumofmodernart's Hyundai Card Video Views Series! The film, screening in concert with Jumana's exhibition currently on view at MoMA PS1, explores the relationship between culture, language, music, and family history. Taking inspiration from the archives of ethnomusicologist Robert Lachmann’s 1930s radio show “Oriental Music,” Jumana combines vignettes of her family home with interviews from native people of Palestine and the traditional musical practices of these ethnic groups. Exploring the ways these heritage rituals persist in the modern day, the film investigates how community practices have adapted and evolved over time. ✨ Accompanying the film is an interview between the artist and @rubakatrib, MoMA PS1's Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs. ➡️ Explore the film and conversation at moma.org/magazine/articles/782, and plan your visit to see the exhibition "Jumana Manna: Break, Take, Erase, Tally" at mo.ma/jumana. 🎟️ Admission is always free for New Yorkers!

jackie sumell and Mina Stone in Conversation

"Plants were used to map significant places along the underground railroad, and okra (ngombo), whose seeds were braided into the hair of the enslaved as they struggled to survive the middle passage, were then planted into colonized soil. The bright yellow ngombo flowers became beacons of hope to other enslaved individuals. It is said that the enslaved could remember their homeland through the flowers that waved to them on foreign soil." — jackie sumell jackie sumell's "Growing Abolition," a collaboration with interns from the Lower East Side Girls Club, is an opportunity to learn from plants about strategies of resistance, coalition, and healing. jackie sat down with Mina Stone, chef and owner of Mina's at MoMA PS1, to talk about one particularly potent teacher: okra! Continue the conversation on your plate: starting Thursday, for a limited time only, Mina's will be serving Bamies––slow cooked okra with tomatoes, onions and chilies––inspired by the work of "Growing Abolition." If you can't make it to Mina's, her recipe is available for you to cook at home at mo.ma/okra! Watch the full conversation at the link in bio. "Growing Abolition" closes October 25, so plan your visit to see (and smell and taste) the plants at mo.ma/growingabolition.

Edgar Heap of Birds: Neufs for Hawaii

🏀 ⛹️‍♂️ Meet us in Murray Park, just down the street in Long Island City, to celebrate a new public artwork by Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds and Project Backboard, painted across two basketball courts. 🥳 In celebration of this major new work right in our backyard, we are collaborating with Common Practice to host a day of drop-in activities on Saturday, October 1, from 12 – 4 p.m. Come by the playground for basketball games, performances, an art-making workshop with artist Tecumseh Ceaser, and more! 🏀 To create this public artwork, titled "Neufs for Hawaii," Edgar worked with Project Backboard to renovate the space, painting imagery from his "Neuf" series across the playing surface. The installation also marks a homecoming for Edgar, who had a solo exhibition at MoMA PS1 in 2019, and has recently joined our Board of Directors! Link in bio for more info on the celebration. See you on the courts! 🏃‍♀️ Film Produced by Kindred Studio Directed by John Dennis

Artists Make New York: Layqa Nuna Yawar

New Yorkers know: being NOT from NY is sometimes deeply NY. We met Layqa Nuna Yawar, whose new collaborative mural is now on view on MoMA PS1's exterior walls, in New Jersey with a perfect view of the NYC skyline to talk about what it means to work from the outside: "Being on the periphery, being on the outside...I think it's a blessing, actually. It's another circle to think about my indigeneity not being present, growing up under colonialism...I think that's why I enjoy New Jersey a lot. Because it's a representation of that...Art doesn't happen in the center. It happens in the peripheries." Artists Make New York, no matter where they start from. Head to mo.ma/layqa to watch the full video in our series exploring the places that have made artists, and the ways artists make place. 📹 Eva Cruz, Noel Woodford, Nora Rodriguez

Summer Fridays goes out with a bang 💥TOMORROW💥 from 5-9 p.m. in the Courtyard. In the culmination of this specially curated summer series — where Warm Up favs play alongside MoMA PS1 first timers — our last line-up features Miho Hatori, Slauson Malone, and Zariiina. Dance into the weekend while savoring tasty treats by @minas.nyc and exploring late access to our exhibitions. Grab a ticket mo.ma/summerfridays, free with admission! 💿 A Warm Up alum from the earliest days (2000, 2014), artist, music producer, vocalist and improviser Miho Hatori is a former member of the legendary NYC alternative rock band Cibo Matto. She has collaborated with artists from the Beastie Boys to John Zorn. Her own sound blends dreamy hip-hop, cosmopolitan pop, and an unexpected range of musical styles from around the universe. 💿 Slauson Malone is a performance piece by artist and musician Jasper Marsalis located at the intersection of popular music and performance art, and launched from the genre-bending New York collective Standing on the Corner Expect a set that is equal parts brash, jazzy, studied, trippy and cerebral. 💿 As a DJ, educator, and artist, Zariiina challenges notions of transmission across generations, ancestors, and sonic spaces. She is the co-founder of Reconstructed Mag (a publication focused on narratives of queer, Black, and Shi’a Muslims) and resident at Half Moon BK. Her library of lounge music will take you from the hookah bar to the nightclub, interweaving Hindi classics with trap beats. 🎵 Miho Hatori, "Tokyo"

If you missed Poncili Creacion's legendary performance, there's hope for you yet! One of their giant puppets has taken up residence at MoMA PS1 as part of a sculptural installation in our double-height gallery. Conjuring the spirit of a weed bursting through cracks in the pavement, this massive bloom once danced suspended by boom cranes over the museum’s Courtyard. We're so glad she decided to stay. 🌞 Link in bio to learn more and plan your visit! By infiltrating public and semi-public spaces and enacting dramatic scalar shifts, Poncili Creación questions what forms of growth and development society privileges—and where. A history of unsanctioned occupation informs their work. This towering blossom nods to, in their words, “the countless squatters of time immemorial that have made creative use out of the surplus of the capitalist rubble.” 🎥 Marissa Alper

Some big ❤️s on display this weekend. Thanks to everyone who came out (clad in your greenery!🌿) to witness the magnificent Poncili Creacion. And a big big congratulations to the performers, puppeteers, creatures, and crane operators who made it all happen! 👏🏼👏🏾👏 Musicians Kevin Emilio Perez, Paco Cathcart and Charlie Dore Young; textile designer Daniela Fabrizi and assistant Lee Kuanchen; collaborators Alex Millan, Lulu Varona, Lee Kuanchen, Krystle Lee, Krystal Quiles, Alexandra Chaves, Danae Brissonet, Lord Blobbie, Louis Mastrangelo and Raymond Hernandez. Reel by Eva Cruz Thank you to the Mertz Gilmore Foundation for their support of this program.

Beat the heat with us! 🥵This August we’re hosting 🧊SUMMER FRIDAYS🧊, a curated series of DJ sets in the Courtyard featuring Warm Up favs and new artists. Dance, chill, and snag a 🍹 from 5 till 9 p.m., all free with museum admission. 💿LINEUP💿 Aug 12 Venus X Akua DJ Undocubougie Aug 19 Jenifa Mayanja Chino Amobi CZ Wang Aug 26 Miho Hatori Slauson Malone Zariiina It’s free with museum admission, so snag a spot in advance at mo.ma/summerfridays. And as always, we’re FREE for New Yorkers! 🕺🏽🎧🍹

Beat the heat with us! 🥵This August we’re hosting 🧊SUMMER FRIDAYS🧊, a curated series of DJ sets in the Courtyard featuring Warm Up favs and new artists. Dance, chill, and snag a 🍹 from 5 till 9 p.m., all free with museum admission. 💿LINEUP💿 Aug 12 Venus X Akua DJ Undocubougie Aug 19 Jenifa Mayanja Chino Amobi CZ Wang Aug 26 Miho Hatori Slauson Malone Zariiina It’s free with museum admission, so snag a spot in advance at mo.ma/summerfridays. And as always, we’re FREE for New Yorkers! 🕺🏽🎧🍹

✨Join our team at MoMA PS1!✨ We come from all backgrounds and experiences, but what brings us together is a commitment to celebrating ARTISTS, and the connection, dialog, and social transformation that art can drive. Join us! We're hiring:   💥A Digital Marketing Coordinator with an intuitive nose for social media, excellent writing skills, and experience with marketing strategy.  💥A Registrar with a rigorous eye for detail and extensive experience with coordinating shipping, loan agreements, and condition reporting.  💥A Manager of Institutional Giving who is a relationship-builder and experienced grants manager to cultivate new sources of sustained support. Apply at mo.ma/ps1jobs.

Artists are activists. Artists are essential workers. Artists are drivers of change. Last year, organizers made history when they won the largest ever economic assistance program for informal and undocumented workers in the history of our country. Artists were elemental in that fight. Now, you can learn more about this historic victory—spearheaded right here in NYC—with a new film produced by Fund Excluded Workers Coalition. On view in our galleries through July 25, the film highlights the use of art as a tool for resistance, including banners featured in the Nuevayorkinos activation of Homeroom, and new campaign graphics designed by "After the Fire" artist Layqa Nuna Yawar. Learn more and plan your visit at mo.ma/excluded. 👉🏽 We're free for all New Yorkers! Video: @lmsvoice.studio Video description: Series of clips of activists, artists, and undocumented workers creating art, talking, looking directly at the camera, and writing. A pan of a protest sign that reads "NY Lead the way. Pass Excluded..." and someone holding a sign that says "Excluded No More, Our Labor Has Dignity, Pass A9037/58165." Followed by a series of clips of people hugging, showing their arm muscles, writing a sign, looking intensely into the camera, and a square of red paper that reads "Excluded No More" and has a marker drawn image of hands holding.

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

You're not a real New Yorker until this city has seen you cry, yell, fall in love, fall on your ass, and fall asleep on the train at 2 a.m. Tatyana Fazlalizadeh takes us on a walk through Bed Stuy, Brooklyn to show us the block that has SEEN her. “New York has seen a lot of different versions of myself. And what can be more home than that?” Tatyana collaborated with Nanibah Chacon and Layqa Nuna Yawar on a participatory mural project, “After the Fire,” which comes to life on our Courtyard walls in just a few weeks! 🔥 Learn more about the project on our 🌹NEW🌹website at mo.ma/afterthefire. 🎥 Noel Woodford

🔥🔥WE HAVE A NEW WEBSITE🔥🔥 And we can't wait to share it with you! It’s a meeting place for everything we’ve been working on—collaborations across the campus, the city, and the world. It's a place for building dialogue and forging connection. And like PS1, it’s a hub for ideas, experimentation, at least one killer cornbread recipe, and more than a few cute art dogs. 🐶 Meet the new momaps1.org.

💫And💫Still💫We💫Rise💫 The Queensbridge Photo Collective is in Homeroom! The collective, a group of accomplished women photographers and longtime residents of the Queensbridge Houses, explores the changing landscape of the neighborhood around MoMA PS1 through oral histories, archival research, and photography. These women have seen this place change—and a few even attended PS1 back when it was a school! The title of their activation––"Still, Like Air I’ll Rise" ––takes its name from a poem by Maya Angelou. It reflects hope and perseverance in the face of racial and class-based discrimination, which has characterized much urban planning policy over the last century. Learn more at mo.ma/queensbridge. Come by! Admission is always free for New Yorkers. mo.ma/ps1tickets 📸 Steven Paneccasio

Innocence Project

Join us on Thursday (May 5) to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Innocence Project and celebrate the publication of an expanded 20th anniversary edition of Taryn Simon’s "The Innocents," which documents the stories of individuals who were incarcerated for violent crimes they did not commit. Artist Mary Baxter will moderate a conversation with Peter Neufeld, Barry Scheck, and Marvin Anderson about the malleability and unreliability of memory, and the misuse of photography in criminal investigations. Four individuals whose wrongful convictions are detailed in Taryn Simon's "The Innocents" will also share live, unscripted stories about what they see—some more than 20 years later—when they look at the photos in which they’re featured. Innocence Project is an independent non-profit organization that fights for fair, compassionate, and equitable systems of justice for everyone; frees the innocent; and prevents wrongful convictions. Their work is guided by science and grounded in anti-racism. MoMA PS1 has had a longstanding relationship with the Innocence Project since its 2003 exhibition of Simon's series "The Innocents." Learn more at mo.ma/ps1-innocence. — “The Innocents” (excerpt). 2003. Courtesy the artist

#GreaterNewYork artist Emilie Louise Gossiaux's work explores the intimacy that comes with an interdependent relationship, like the one she has with her yellow lab retriever, London (who often appears in her work!). 💛💛 Explore the closeness between Emilie and London in our latest Artists Make New York video, and visit #GreaterNewYork before it closes on Monday to see Emilie’s work in person. Get tickets at mo.ma/ps1tickets. 🎟Admission is always FREE for New Yorkers!🎟

We took a sit at Newtown Creek with #GreaterNewYork artist Alan Michelson to talk about what's missing from the landscape. Four hundred years ago, monumental shell mounds—or middens—dotted this land (some dating as far back as 6950 BCE!). Alan’s installation, "Midden," pays homage to Lenapehoking, the ancestral Lenape homelands, and its bounty of oysters, which fed generations until pollution made them unsafe to eat and decimated the oyster population. Alan collaborated with the Billion Oyster Project (@billionoyster) to source three tons of oyster shells (!) for his installation. Plan your visit to see Alan's "Midden" at mo.ma/ps1tickets. 🦪Admission is always free for New Yorkers.🦪 #MoMA #MoMAPS1 #ArtistsMakeNewYork

#GreaterNewYork artist G. Peter Jemison tells the stories left out of the history books. 📖 A Seneca artist and historian, Peter created a new work for "Greater New York" which explores the Canandaigua Treaty of 1794. The treaty was forged between the nascent US government and the Haudenosaunee, a confederacy of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora people. The Treaty not only affirmed the sovereignty of the Haudenosaunee, but guaranteed their land rights to a significant portion of Western New York (spoiler: the treaty has seen many violations since its adoption). To mark the treaty, the US government set aside $4500 to buy cloth to send to the Haudenosaunee, an amount that has never changed. The treaty still exists today—and so does the tradition of the cloth! You can see textile pieces given to Peter's family incorporated into many of the works on view. As a form of historical preservation, Peter's works combat the geographic and cultural erasure his people have faced. Read the full conversation with Peter at mo.ma/peterjemison, and plan your visit to discover many more under recognized histories of New York at mo.ma/tickets. #MoMA #MoMAPS1 #ArtistsMakeNewYork #PeterJemison

#GreaterNewYork artist G. Peter Jemison tells the stories left out of the history books. 📖 A Seneca artist and historian, Peter created a new work for "Greater New York" which explores the Canandaigua Treaty of 1794. The treaty was forged between the nascent US government and the Haudenosaunee, a confederacy of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora people. The Treaty not only affirmed the sovereignty of the Haudenosaunee, but guaranteed their land rights to a significant portion of Western New York (spoiler: the treaty has seen many violations since its adoption). To mark the treaty, the US government set aside $4500 to buy cloth to send to the Haudenosaunee, an amount that has never changed. The treaty still exists today—and so does the tradition of the cloth! You can see textile pieces given to Peter's family incorporated into many of the works on view. As a form of historical preservation, Peter's works combat the geographic and cultural erasure his people have faced. Read the full conversation with Peter at mo.ma/peterjemison, and plan your visit to discover many more under recognized histories of New York at mo.ma/ps1tickets. #MoMA #MoMAPS1 #ArtistsMakeNewYork #PeterJemison

#GreaterNewYork

New York is a city in constant flux, but artists have always helped us make sense of its many transformations. Featuring more than 200 works by 47 intergenerational and interdisciplinary artists, #GreaterNewYork makes it clear that✨ARTISTS MAKE NEW YORK✨. This weekend, grab a buddy and explore artists' expressions of our city's past and visions for its future. #ArtistsMakeNewYork Grab a ticket at mo.ma/ps1tickets. Admission is always free for New Yorkers! #MoMAPS1 #LongIslandCity #GreaterNewYork

Diane Burns

This weekend, we're celebrating the legacy of #GreaterNewYork artist Diane Burns, whose wry poetry incisively portrayed the complexities of Native American identity. 👑 On Saturday at 2pm, poet Nicole Wallace (@nmwnmwnmwnmw) hosts a conversation with a group of Indigenous writers and artists to dig into Diane's creative practice and generate new interpretations. The free program will include a series of presentations of new textual material by Lou Cornom, Sky Hopinka (@skyhopinka), and Maria Hupfield (@mariahupfield), followed by a conversation moderated by Nicole. Learn more at mo.ma/onburns, and grab a ticket for Saturday at mo.ma/ps1tickets. The program is free with general admission. #MoMAPS1 #LongIslandCity #DianeBurns 📼 Diane Burns. Poetry Spots: Diane Burns reads "Alphabet City Serenade.” 1989. Video (color, sound).

"Greater New York" makes it clear: ARTISTS MAKE NEW YORK

New York is a city in constant flux, but artists have always helped us make sense of its many transformations. Unfolding more than 200 works by 47 intergenerational and interdisciplinary artists, #GreaterNewYork makes it clear: ✨ARTISTS MAKE NEW YORK✨. Grab a buddy this weekend and explore documents from our city's past and visions for its future. #ArtistsMakeNewYork Plan your visit at mo.ma/ps1tickets. Admission is Always free for New Yorkers! #MoMAPS1 #LongIslandCity

Download Bloomberg Connects App & Hear “Greater New York” artists

"The way I think of abstraction is it allows more content in. It expands area where the viewer can interpret or experience the work in very personal, subjective ways. Through if we experience the works rather than understand the works."—Raha Raissnia 🦻🏽👂🏼 Hear “Greater New York” artists in their work words when you download the Bloomberg Connects app at mo.ma/bloomberg. Plan your visit at mo.ma/ps1tickets to see an intimate portrayal of our city in "Greater New York." REMINDER 👉🏾 🔥 Admission is always FREE for New Yorkers.

Cooking With Artist with Mina Stone

Why do you come to the kitchen?👩🏾‍🍳🥕🍜🍰. Today, we wrap up our beloved series, "Cooking With Artists," with an interview with Mina Stone, chef and owner of Minas Café at PS1, and the voice behind so many conversations with artists about so much more than food. The series kicked off in March of 2020 (sourdough, anyone?) when Mina began interrogating the deeper reasons behind a collective retreat to the kitchen. "At first, I think it seems really obvious….‘oh, because food is cozy and fun.’ But then, what the interview series unearthed is that it’s actually a lot more nuanced and deep than I would have ever thought.” Watch the full video, and learn what the series has meant to Mina (and to us!) at mo.ma/minas. Read more + get Mina's recipe for oven baked chickpeas at mo.ma/mina.

Stream the premiere of “VEINTITRES: Our Labor Saved Lives"

This Thursday at 7pm, we’re thrilled to premiere “VEINTITRES: Our Labor Saved Lives,” a film by Djali Brown-Cepeda, creator of the digital project Nuevayorkinos. Stream the premiere of the film, followed by a live conversation with Djali and Elena Ketelsen Gonzalez, MoMA PS1 Assistant Curator, and representatives from Make the Road New York, Street Vendor Project, and New York Communities for Change. Learn more and register at mo.ma/veintitres. The film, commissioned in conjunction with the Homeroom activation, “Nuevayorkinos: Essential and Excluded,” documents the 23 day hunger strike held by workers across New York in the spring of 2021 to secure $2.1-billion in New York State pandemic relief funding for excluded workers, many of whom are undocumented. Following the premiere, the film will screen continuously during museum hours from January 7 to 10. ✨ Make sure to catch the final weekend of “Nuevayorkinos: Essential and Excluded,” on view through January 10. And Psst—admission is always FREE for New Yorkers! Plan your visit at mo.ma/ps1tickets.

Safely Visit Us this Holiday Season

Make art the center of your gathering with family and friends. This holiday season, safely plan your visit to MoMA PS1 to celebrate the vibrancy of New York’s artists! Admission is ✨ always FREE ✨ for New Yorkers. Plan your visit at mo.ma/greaterny, and learn more about visiting us safely at mo.ma/visitps1. ❄️ HOLIDAY HOURS ❄️ December 24: 12-4 p.m. December 25: closed December 26: 12-6 p.m. December 31: 12-4 p.m. January 1: closed 👉🏼 PS1 PSA: for everyone’s health and safety, vaccination (age 5+) and masks (age 2+) are required for all visitors. Learn more at mo.ma/visitps1.

Artists Make New York with Sean-Kierre Lyons

This winter solstice, get to know a tree that's seen some things. 🌙 For our second installment of "Artists Make New York," Sean-Kierre Lyons takes us to a hidden spot in Prospect Park, where we discover a tree that's still alive, despite a cavern that runs straight through its trunk. We talk about imagining something new after trauma, and how the park has changed since SK hung here as a teenager. 🧚🏽 Watch the full conversation at https://mo.ma/sk Plan your visit to see SK's new sculpture, on view in "Greater New York" at mo.ma/ps1tickets. 🌳 Admission is always FREE for New Yorkers. 🌳

FOODTOPIA by Las Nietas de Nono has Been Extended

Where is New York? With "Greater New York," we're thinking about expanded geographies, exploring place as terrain for experimentation and creation. "FOODTOPIA: después de todo territorio" takes us to Puerto Rico. Premiering at MoMA PS1, FOODTOPIA is new film by artist duo Las Nietas de Nonó exploring the reverberations of both ancestral and colonial histories in Puerto Rico’s food system. The film, which is on view continuously as a part of "Greater New York" during museum hours, is now extended through January 3rd! Plan your visit to catch FOODTOPIA over the holidays at mo.ma/ps1tickets. Admission is always FREE for New Yorkers.

Panel Discussion Drawing Connections Between the Ongoing Migration Tragedy in Brooks County, Texas

The pandemic has forced us all into close quarters with ambiguous loss: it's a mourning without closure, a rupture without resolution. Freya Powell took on the topic last month in her performance and panel discussion, drawing connections between the ongoing migration tragedy in Brooks County, Texas and the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch the full conversation at mo.ma/freyapowell Freya's performance, "Only Remains Remain," used the structure of a Sophoclean chorus to create an elegy for the hundreds of unidentified migrants buried in mass graves in Sacred Heart Cemetery in Brooks County. If you missed her performance at PS1, you can still catch Freya tomorrow—Saturday, December 11th from 2-5 p.m.—at The Queens Museum for "No puedo no estar lamentándome: LLORA CHILLA GRITA CANTA," a performance and conversation about processing grief and loss, anchored in the museum's neighboring Spanish-speaking community of Corona, Queens. Learn more at mo.ma/queensmuseum.

Learn about composer and musician Ana Roxanne

"Movement for me physically and artistically is kinda slow and steady, not rushing, just letting things happen naturally."—Ana Roxanne New York-based composer and musician Ana Roxanne bewitched us with her ambient music during Warm Up this past summer. Slowness is Ana's mode of being, while her jazz and classical training inflects her interests in ambient, spiritual, and popular music. Despite the roadblocks posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Ana continues to draw strength and inspiration from channeling positivity around and within her. The moment she feels the influx of creative energy, maintaining her own pace is paramount. It might be slow at times, but that’s just how her artistry prospers. ✨In partnership with On, we're highlighting some of the artists, musicians, and creators that have brought community together here at MoMA PS1. From Warm Up to "Greater NewYork," from the walls to the stage, we'll explore how PS1 artists stay connected to their practice and their community through a moment of profound change, and how they use that connection to thrive.