Lilia Kudelia

As this was Rauschenberg’s first use of video, he spent time working with the studio technicians to understand the colors that could be transmitted on television, eventually selecting forty colors that would be used as the solid colors of the dancers’ costumes. Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Chronology, Anne Livet, Brazos River: A Video Collaboration, unpublished exhibition catalogue, 1977, tape 2. Robert Rauschenberg Archives, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.

Harmony Holiday

As Holiday navigates the depths of Black remembrance and loss, she sets her sights on the relationship between “the new” and “the archival.” She treats both entities as collectively improvising ensembles in which prose and poetry sit by turns comfortable and chaotic, next to images cribbed from Black artistic and private life. Text on Harmony Holiday’s film God’s Suicide, commissioned for the Hammer’s 2021 biennial Made in L.A. 2020: a version, The Hammer at UCLA and the Huntington

Joyeux Noel

Joyeux Noel tells the true-life story of the spontaneous Christmas Eve truce declared by Scottish, French, and German troops in the trenches of World War I. Enemies leave their weapons behind for one night as they band together in brotherhood and forget about the brutalities of war. Diane Krüger, Daniel Brühl, and Benno Fürmann head a first-rate international cast in a truly powerful, must-see film.
PG-13; 116 minutes

 

Claes Oldenburg, Slow Art

The aim of the Slow Art movement is to break with the often frenetic pace of modern life to simply enjoy works of art in a deliberate and unhurried fashion. Slow Art at the Modern invests in this pause with a 30-minute spotlight tour focusing on one work of art. Led by a Modern docent, the January tour will focus on Claes Oldenburg.

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