grand openings' online calendar (Updating July 24, 2011)


This webpage is for Grand Openings Return of the Blogs, July 20 - August 1, 2011, at MoMA. For a daily update, please revisit this page, as well as the information monitor and wall calendar in The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor of MoMA. Some performances occur in other places of the Museum. Please stop by the Atrium upon your arrival to find out where Grand Openings is performing.


Daily Events


Film Screenings Randomly: ¡Qué Bárbara!
daily, Noon - 1:00 p.m., Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2), T2
2011, New York, Loretta Fahrenholz and Emily Sundblad, 15min (will be looped)
This screening will be interrupted randomly by the piano rehearsals of Grand Openings and surprise appearances by various New York musicians, composers and filmmakers (Beeerguitar, Jimi Starborn, etc.).

Tea Time with Grand Openings
daily, 3:00 p.m. (various durations)
Grand Openings' day begins here. Live blogs, Live gifts/donations, casual curator discussions, sand paintings, and 10 cups of tea.






Special Exhibition Events


MOMs at MoMA
Café by the Ruins Tour

Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 3:00 p.m., The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor
Some parts of this event will be at The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden
Mothers of Grand Openings members initiate the return of Grand Openings to New York. Meanafter, Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho will lead us a tour of MoMA with Grand Oepnings.

Mushroom Thursday
Thursday, July 21, 2011, 3:00 p.m., The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor
We don't know what you will see on this day's event.

Lee Williams' Daled's Open Drawing Sessions
Friday, July 22, 2011, 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor
Lee Williams summons weather-balloons in homage of MoMA's newly acquired Daled Collection.

Single's Night (1)
Jutta Koether's Mad Garland
Friday, July 22, 2011, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor
Jutta Koether does Mad Garland for the first time in New York. Meanwhile, Grand Openings reaches out to NYC singles to unite. Craigslist ad coming soon.

Georgia Sagri's Live Portfolio
Saturday, July 23, 2011, 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor
Georgia Sagri makes a live mix-tape of performance pieces she has presented in NY from 2007-2011. Invited by Sagri, a group of friends develop a code ouji demonstration while her brother and activist Tasos Sagris will be answering questions about the current uprising in Greece, addressed by everyone present.

Grand Openings' "Challenging Mud" as Archive
Saturday, July 23, 2011, 6:00 p.m., The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden
What is an archive? What is archiving? Is MoMA an archive? A burial? So many questions.

The Marriage of Stefan Tcherepnin (Rehearsal)
Opera by Emily & Joe, prelude

Sunday, July 24, 2011, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden
Some part of this event will be at The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor
Every marriage needs a rehearsal.



Grand Openings Retreat
Monday, July 25, 2011, all day, The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor
Grand Openings Summer Retreat.

The Calendar of The Dead Performance
Totem Pole Calendar

Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 3:00 p.m., The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor
Grand Openings with Sen Uesaki and Daishiro Mori engages various forms of calendar. MoMA's curatorial team C MAP might be a big help for Grand Openings to complete this sequence.

Formal Dress Day
Wednesday, July 27, 2011, all day, throughout the Museum
For this event, please come to MoMA in your most formal and glamorous attire.


A Screensaver by Sam Lewitt
Thursday, July 28, 2011, all day, The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor
A screensaver.

Single's Night (2)
Zombie Dance Dress Rehearsal: Liturgy and Grand Openings
Echoing "The House in the Museum Garden" (inspired by Hajime Soma)

Friday, July 29, 2011, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden
Some parts of this event will be at Theater 1 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1), T1
Liturgy resonates with Grand Openings' zombie move(s) while Mari Mukai constructs a house. Again, Grand Openings reaches out to NYC singles to collaborate. Craigslist ad coming soon.

Kathryn Bigelow's "Near Dark" Mimesis
Saturday, July 30, 2011, 5:00 p.m. - 6:40 p.m., The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor
Grand Openings reenacts and synchronizes with Kathryn Bigelow's 1987 Vampire/Western movie, "Near Dark", in the Atrium while the actual film screens in Theatre 1.

The Marriage of Stefan Tcherepnin
Opera by Emily & Joe, Act I

Sunday, July 31, 2011, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden
Some part of this event will be at The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor
Activation of sand painting, release of pure energy from within mandala (in each of us). There will be a balloon arch.


Christopher DeLaurenti's Greatest Hits
Monday, August 1, 2011, 2:00 p.m., The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor
13 days of audio recordings.




Grand Openings Return of the Blogs
July 20 - August 1, 2011, MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019, (212) 708-9400, MoMA.org

SUMMER HOURS Sunday through Wednesday, 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, 10:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m.

Admission: $20 adults; $16 seniors, 65 years and over with I.D.; $12 full-time students with current I.D. Free, members and children 16 and under. (Includes admittance to Museum galleries and film programs). Target Free Friday Nights 4:00 - 8:00 p.m. (Till SEPT. 2: TARGET FREE FRIDAY NIGHTS 4:00-8:30 p.m.)

Grand Openings Return of the Blogs is organized by Sabine Breitwieser, Chief Curator, and Jenny Schlenzka, Assistant Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art.

Grand Openings SPECIAL THANKS to Beeerguitar, Enzo Camacho, Christopher DeLaurenti, Loretta Fahrenholz, K8 Hardy, Joe Heffernan, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, John Kelsey, Travis Kent, Margaret Lee, Sam Lewitt, Amy Lien, Liturgy, Daishiro Mori, MOMs (Linda Sanders, Britt Marie Sundblad, and Anne Tcherepnin), Mari Mukai and the Team Clifton, Pitney Bowes (Antoine Davilla, Derek Jackson, John McDonald), Real Fine Arts (Ben Morgan-Cleveland and Tyler Dobson), Georgia Sagri, Michael Sanchez, Hajime Soma, Jimi Starborn, Robert The, Reiko Tomii, Hanna Törnudd, Sen Uesaki, Lee Williams, Masaaki Yoshino a.k.a. Miami, and the collaborators from The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

The Performance Program is made possible by MoMA's Wallis Annenberg Fund for Innovation in Contemporary Art through the Annenberg Foundation.

This page is hosted by Reena Spaulings Fine Arts, New York. To go back to MoMA website, click here.

Image: Grand Openings with Daishiro Mori/Sen Uesaki, The Calendar of the Dead (Excerpt), 2011