Stuart Comer

Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art, MoMA.
Posts reflect my personal views and not those of MoMA.

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Cynthia is the alter ego of Shana Moulton, a video and performance artist now showing at MoMA. Like a lot of us, Cynthia is trying to find answers to her spiritual maladies with physical tactics. https://t.co/DgBcMRssq7

[MoMA The Museum of Modern Art @MuseumModernArt]

In conjunction with the exhibition #Signals, the Mumbai-based group CAMP, led by Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran, joins us for a lecture and screening on May 15 drawing from CAMP’s exploration of simultaneous networks of migration and media → https://t.co/od6WSaVqK0

[Stuart Comer @StuartComer]

Sondra Perry 💜4ever 💜 https://t.co/MFtBh09xpy

[Marian Goodman Gallery @MarianGoodman]

#DaraBirnbaum and #AmarKanwar join @MuseumModernArt to discuss the legacy of video as a means of political change and societal transformation.

The conversation will be moderated by curators @StuartComer and Michelle Kuo.

🗓️Wednesday, 3 May
🕕6:00 – 7:30 pm ET

[Stuart Comer @StuartComer]

Johanna Fateman on Signals: How Video Transformed the World @johannafateman @NewYorker —> https://t.co/XF9OUkCCQn

[MoMA The Museum of Modern Art @MuseumModernArt]

“I want to show [television’s] potential for interaction, its possibilities as a medium for peace and global understanding. It can spread out, cross international borders, provide liberating information, maybe eventually punch a hole in the Iron Curtain.” — Nam June Paik

[e-flux @e_flux]

How can works of video art intervene to change a culture—of image saturation, spectacle, and sensationalism—that the same medium has helped to produce? Dennis Lim on MoMA's survey of six decades of video art.

@MuseumModernArt

https://t.co/QJQIfxo7NE

[MoMA The Museum of Modern Art @MuseumModernArt]

Now open! See how video transformed the world in #Signals, a major exhibition bringing together over six decades of media works from the #MoMACollection. Learn more → https://t.co/411lX3t0hq

[Stuart Comer @StuartComer]

‘An expansion of the public sphere’: how video transformed the world https://t.co/G6Cda7Tvz0

[The Art Newspaper Podcasts @TANaudio]

In this episode of The Week in Art, host Ben Luke gets the latest from @amldawson on this year's Art Dubai fair. Plus, MoMA's largest ever media show and Work of the Week is Lucie Rie's modernist jug and coffee pot

Listen now: https://t.co/NNa41xYD3M

Sponsored by @ChristiesInc

[Consul General Jo Sletbak @NorwayNYC]

Today we celebrated the brilliant Sandra Mujinga and her works now on show @MuseumModernArt. Sandra will become a New Yorker this fall, with a residency @ISCP_NYC and an upcoming group show @Guggenheim! @mouhjinga @StuartComer @laminfofana @TheKitchen_NYC

[La Frances Hui @LaFrancesHui]

Anong Houngheuangsy, Tsai Ming-Liang, Lee Kang-Sheng are ready for Tsai's retrospective @MoMAFilm beginning tomorrow. Are you? Details: https://t.co/J4kebn9KXZ

[MoMA The Museum of Modern Art @MuseumModernArt]

This #PrideMonth, stream “Looking for Langston” from June 15–29 and read an interview with #IsaacJulien in the latest installment of our Hyundai Card Video Views series featuring video works from the collection → https://t.co/Ocdjtg2Paj

[MoMA The Museum of Modern Art @MuseumModernArt]

Live art in the heart of the galleries! 

Join us for new programs in The Studio, a space for live events—performance, music, sound, spoken word, and expanded approaches to the moving image.

Learn more → https://t.co/Z03qMjnZ3i

[MoMA The Museum of Modern Art @MuseumModernArt]

"Sometimes the world confirms what we want it to see, and other times it denies what we want it to see or how we want to be seen."

On the final day of "Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen?" read an interview between Pendleton and @StuartComer on #MoMAMagazine → https://t.co/pIhzg7xghX

[Stuart Comer @StuartComer]

Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen? Closing Celebration. Mon, Feb 21, 6:30-8:30pm. Music by Hahn Rowe, discussion with Julie Mehretu, Jack Halberstam, and Adam Pendleton. Tix online, livestream available. https://t.co/EXwoXxwrKh

[MoMA The Museum of Modern Art @MuseumModernArt]

Let Guadalupe Maravilla guide you through healing sound baths at home.

Listen to the audio recordings on #MoMAMagazine in both English and Spanish: https://t.co/LiwXUM9oTs

[MoMA The Museum of Modern Art @MuseumModernArt]

“My experience as a caseworker became my artistic practice. All that I learned became my methodology—making real artwork with real experiences and people.” — Pepón Osorio

[Stuart Comer @StuartComer]

Adam Pendleton, Notes on Resurrection City, 2021

[MoMA The Museum of Modern Art @MuseumModernArt]

“This will be no mere one-day march in Washington, but a trek to the nation's capital by suffering and outraged citizens who will go to stay until some definite and positive action is taken to provide jobs and income for the poor.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

[MoMA The Museum of Modern Art @MuseumModernArt]

Since the late 80s, Tony Cokes has produced a prolific body of videos that engage with critical theory, cultural studies, politics, and popular culture.

Watch an exclusive two-week screening of Cokes’s work for our latest Hyundai Card Video Views.

https://t.co/FrhuwMZL4W