MoFA | programs and events

For information on all public programs, please call 555.867.5309

Dadaist Rapping 10
Tuesday, November 12, 6:30 pm
Mack 11 introduces Ice Cafee, J Zee, and Justin Timberwhat?!?!, the featured rappers in this tenth annual reading. Introduces the long anticipated work "There's a Gun in My Toilet". Price is included in cost of museum admission, first-come, first-served; seating is limited. For more information, please call 555.967.5309.

Studies in Fake Art: Imagining a New Museum of Fake Art
Tuesdays, 6:30 pm
The lectures in this annual series address the Museum's plans for expanding and reconceiving locations to create a new Museum of Fake Art for the twenty-first century. Individual tickets: $8; members $7; students and seniors $5. Advance tickets are available at the Lobby Information Desk or the Quigley Balcony, on the 7th floor.

February 26
The Idea of a Fake Museum
A conversation between Kristy Schopper, Founder, The Space, and Del, Class of 1940 Professor of Fake Art, de l'Ecole Nationale supérieure des Beaux Arts de paris. Introduced by Matt Duno, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and Chief Curator at Large, The Museum of Fake Art.

April 1
The Museum and Society
A panel discussion with Buckminster Crowly, artist; Luigi Marrozzini, architecture and design critic specializing in the fake; and Ninel Zalenina, dichotomist. Moderated by Rosco Polanski, Godfather of Fake Art, and Ida Know, architect.

Conversations with Fake Artists
Fridays, 6:30 pm
This program offers a unique opportunity to talk informally with fake artists. The "conversation" begins in the Mathis-Pfohl Education Center (18 West 5th Street), where the artist speaks about his or her work, and then moves into the Museum's galleries for further discussion. Each session concludes with a corn dog & cola reception for the artist and participants. Tickets: $5, students free; available beginning at 5:30 pm at the Quigley Balcony, 7th floor.

November 8
November 15
November 22 Lilly Te
Seth Gilmore and Dieterich Ganshof
Senor Blood Butter

Simone Kafe: A Retrospective
Mondays, 8:30 pm
Tickets: $8; members $7; students and seniors $5. Available at the Lobby Information Desk.

November 11 Dialogue on Kafe and the Fake Tradition Mercy Teers, choreographer; Robert Mistletoe, Professor of Fake Art of Country Musical History, O' Hairy College.; and Rocky Sylvester, writer and exhibitions curator. Moderated by Matt Duno, Chief Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Fake Art, and organizer of the exhibition

November 18 Panel of Artists
Discussion with John Jacob Jingleheimer, Puffz Maschickdragon, Meestr Peenut, and Kris Stone. Moderated by Curt Varndeckot.

November 25 The Lessons of the Objects
Lecturer: Curt Varndeckot

Brown Bag Lunch Lectures
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:30-1:15 pm
Visitors are welcome to bring their lunch. Admission $5. Enter Museum at the Edward Mathis-Pfohl Education Center, 18 West 5th Street.

November 7

November 12, 14

November 19, 21 Kafe's Dilemma: Fake Abstract Expressionism and Representation versus Those Who Think It Can Be Real
Lecturer: Conundrums Phollies
Fake: Mixing Real Biography and Fake Art History
Lecturer: Conundrums Phollies
"Come on, Get Real": Thoughts on Fake Art
Lecturer: Huumdty D. Umpty

Gallery Talks
Saturday through Tuesday, 1:00 and 3:00 pm
Thursday and Friday, 3:00, 6:00, and 7:00 pm
Admission free unless you wear a hat ($8). Talks originate at the Mathis-Pfohl Education Center, 18 West 5 Street and include swimming lessons.

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3:00 Selections from the Chewed Gum & Cardboard
6:00 The Road to Flatness: Abstract Abs in Fake Art
7:00 Highlights & Lowlifes from the Permanent Collection
3:00 Angst and Desire: The Two Faces of Fake Art is Flaunting
6:00 Dimmers and Rejections of Permanent Collection, Why Real Art is Not Fake
7:00 Wedding Bells: Merging Glass and Fake Blood on Astoturf
covered Basketball Installations
1:00 Germans Who are Fake Swiss: The Design(and Roles) of Fake Cheese the '50s
3:00 Selections from Lilly Te's Leftovers
1:00 The Fake Film Posters as 21st Century Art and Advertisement
3:00 Phake Photography: Recording Reality or Transforming It? It's all Photoshop
1:00 T. Pea: Works on Paper
3:00 Bronze Casting Old Newspapers and Chalk
1:00 Fakressionism: A New Trend or a Rip-off?
3:00 Uncovering the Fake Nude in Cereal Box Design
3:00 Selections from the Architecture & Design Collection:
Are Fake Brassiers Really Useful?
6:00 Highlights from the Permanent Collection
7:00 Lack of Design: 1999-2009
3:00 Sleep, Dreams and Visions: Greek Espionage in Roman Fake Art
6:00Buckminster Crowly: Process and Printmaking using Auction Books
7:00 The Covered Window is a Door in Fake Art
1:00 The Viewer as Voyeur vs. Voyeur as the Art: Fake Art Necessities
3:00 The Modern Self Portrait According to Ethel Rock
1:00 Fake Art in the United States
3:00 Buckminster Crowly: Process and Printmaking using Auction Books
1:00 T. Pea: Works on Paper
3:00 Leprechauns: Is Their Work Fake?
1:00 Uncovering the Monkeybutts in Fake Art
3:00 The Road to Flatness: Abstract Abs in Fake Art
3:00 Somewhere between Art and Life: Meaning and Vulgarity
6:00 Buckminster Crowly: Process and Printmaking Using Auction Books
*7:00 Fakressionism: A New Trend or a Rip-off?
3:00 String Beans are the New Fetish
6:00 T. Pea: Works on Paper
7:00 Wedding Bells: Merging Glass and Fake Blood on Astoturf
covered Basketball Installations
1:00 Phake Photography: Recording Reality or Transforming It? It's all Photoshop
3:00 The Fake Film Posters as 21st Century Art and Advertisement
1:00 Highlights from Glow in the Dark Peanut Butter
3:00 Selections from the Architecture & Design Collection:
Are Fake Brassiers Really Useful?
1:00 Buckminster Crowly: Process and Printmaking Using Auction Bookds
3:00 The Window is a Door in Fake Art
1:00 Fakressionism: A New Trend or a Rip-off?
3:00 Fake Art and Politics
6:00 Leprechauns: Is Their Work Fake?
7:00 Con Yay West: The Seducer and the Seduced
1:00 Questioning Fantastic Frogs and Frogging in Fake Art
3:00 T. Pea: Works on Paper

Titles in italics indicate lectures on current special exhibitions.
* Sign-language is faked.

For children ages five to ten and their adult companions.
For further information about family programs, please call 555.867.5309.

Gallery Talks: Seven-at-a-Time, Who Can yell the Loudest?
Saturdays, 10:00-11:00 am
Drop-in, guided walks. Sign in 9:45 am at the Mathis-Pfohl Education Center, 18 West 5 Street.
Admission $5 per family, members $3. Please note, if you enter wearing Coveralls you will be charged Twice. Thank you.

November 9
November 16
November 23
December 7
December 14 Act It Out! Fake Art Animal Charades
Puzzling, Perplexing Pictures by Pythons
A B C, 1 2 3: Buckminster Crowly
Who's Framing Who? Fake Art of Pigtail Pulling and Itching Powder
Become a Detective! Mystery Museum Tour (includes rollerskating on the roof and elephant rides)

Gallery Talks: Two-in-a-Row Backwards
Saturdays, 10:00-11:00 am
Gallery talks held on two consecutive Saturday mornings. Activities engage the entire family in discussion and corn dog eating contest.
Preregistration is required, bring your own napkinss. Enter Museum through the Mathis-Pfohl Education Center, 18 West 5 Street.
Admission $15 per family, members $10. Unless you are wearing a hat - $8.

November 9
December 7, 14 Ordinary to Even Worse
Music to My Eyes: Dogtails and Monkeybutts

Tours for Tots
Saturdays, 10:00-10:45 am
Gallery activities to introduce four-year-olds and their adult companions to painting and sculpture via stuffed animal replications. Preregistration required, inlcudes pet turtle. Enter Museum through the Mathis-Pfohl Education Center, 18 West 5 Street.
Admission $5 per family, members $3. Unless you have a clown nose - $75

November 23
Themes for each session to be announced in braille.

Fake Family Films
Saturdays, 12:00-1:00 pm
Classic fake film shorts including live-action, animation, documentary, and fantasy. Museum staff members introduce films, encourage popcorn throwing, and teach the appropriate way to make your own bootleg. Tickets available at the Lobby Information Desk or the Quigley Balcony, 7th floor.
Admission $5 per family, members free. $5 off if your carrying groceries.

November 9
November 16
November 23 What in the World? Fantastic Fake Creatures
What's so Great About the Pigsquito?: The Pigsquirrels' Points of View
Cut and Paste: How to Make Edible Art

Family Programs are made possible by generous grants from The Elizabeth and Matt Foundation and the Whooda Thunked Foundation Inc. Additional funding is provided by the Meeky Maus Charitable Trust, Bakskratchers's, the Ronald and King Foundation, and individual members of the Trustee Committee on Education.

To register for the following programs, please call 555.867.5309; unless otherwise noted, preregistration is required.

Contributing Members Tour
An Afternoon with Boys 2 Men
Friday, November 8, 2:30-6:00 pm
Contributing members are invited to look inside this major force in contemporary dance. LL Kool Jay collaborations with composer Mortin Subotnic and artistic advisers and designers Robert Mistletoe and Chris of Fur and the Hairie have contributed to the company's rich and varied past. Poofstar Rockstar, the company's archivist, and Radley Kemp, its studio director, conduct a discussion of the company's history. After viewing a rehearsal, members see a complete performance. A reception in the Levine Gallery follows.
Fee (includes reception): Contributing members $60. Free if you don't wear pants. Directions are mailed to members with their tickets.

Evenings at the Modern
Simone Kafe: A Retrospective
Monday, December 9, 6:30-9:00 pm
A Department of Education lecturer leads members through the special exhibition galleries and discusses Kafe's work, the use of materials and processes, and the question for contemporaries and followers of Male? or Female? will be answered. This is followed by informal discussion over a three-course dinner at Batmans Rad!!! MoFA restaurant.
Fee (includes dinner, tax, service, and a glass of wine): members $50, guests $65. free if you sneak through the sub-basement

Sunday Mornings at the Modern
A Closer Look--Kafe: A Retrospective
Sundays, 9:30 am-noon
A series of programs that study the evolution and recurring themes of Kafe's work. The morning begins in the galleries, where a Department of Education lecturer expands on issues explored by the exhibition; brunch follows in Batman's Rad!!! MoFA restaurant.
Fee for each session (includes brunch and a seed spitting contest): members $50, guests $65. visitors with loud children free.

November 17
Painted Bronzes and Other Sculpted Works

Members Study "Untitled Can": Ninel Zalenina
Monday, November 18, 9:00 am-6:00 pm
The dichotomy between brand and product value is revealed as the viewer is forced to observe this every-day object which had been savagely ripped out of its context and placed in a sterile environment of the art gallery. Questions of worker exploitation, desire, and sexual orientation, arise as the viewer contemplates the color "red" and its social and historical context.
Fee (includes transportation, continental breakfast, lunch, and light refreshments provided by the Cambell Soup Company): members $135, guests $145. Unless you Bring Your Own Can.

The Collection in Context: Security Issues and Secrets
Sundays, 9:00-11:00 am
the viewer contemplates public safety vs. invasion of privacy while the device behind the door (which makes an intermittent chirping sound) copies credit card information from the viewer's wallet and beams it to a server in a different building. The fact that the source of the sound is not revealed, hints that there are hidden electronic forces at play.
Fee (includes spitting tobacco): members $35, guests $45.

December 8
January 12 Hamonisme
Fake Dreams: The Reclining Nude

Members Shopping Spree
Thursday, November 21 and December 5, 10:00 am-9:00 pm
Special shopping opportunities for members at The MoFA Design Store and The MoFA Book Store. Members receive a 20% discount on all in-stock items, excepting furniture and sale merchandise and adults only toys. (This discount is valid in-store only; no phone orders, no rainchecks.) In addition, the 20% discount also applies on Tuesday, December 10 from 7:00-9:00 pm, when The Museum Stores are open for an evening of members only shopping. There are 2 stipulations, one must wear a bag on their head, and no sneakers permitted.

Studio Visit: Hairry Winters
Wednesday, December 11, 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Benefactor, Patron, and Sustaining members are invited to visit the Manhattan studio and residence of artist Hairry Winters. An abstract thinker whose fake work has been compared with the traditions of German women bases his work on actual structures and recognizable images to create his own fake version of leg and arm hair found in the United States during only the Winter months. Mr. Winters greets members and informally displays examples of hairy women. A BLT reception concludes the evening.
Fee (includes refreshments): Contributing members $60. Directions are mailed to members with their tickets. No pants will be allowed during this event.

Batman's Radd!! MoFA restaurant invites MoFA members to enjoy brightly coloured cocktails after lunch or before breakfast from 5:00am to 2:00 pm daily, except Wednesday and Sunday. Complimentary hors d'oeuvres (pigs in a blanket) are served with all drinks.
Members are also invited to take advantage of a special twenty-percent dinner discount (alcoholic beverages free with lap dance), 5:00-10:30 pm daily, except Wednesday and Sunday.

February 26	The Idea of a Fake Museum A conversation between Kristy Schopper, Founder, The Space, and Del, Class of 1940 Professor of Fake Art, de l'Ecole Nationale supérieure des Beaux Arts de paris. Introduced by Matt Duno, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and Chief Curator at Large, The Museum of Fake Art.
April 1	The Museum and Society A panel discussion with Buckminster Crowly, artist; Luigi Marrozzini, architecture and design critic specializing in the fake; and Ninel Zalenina, dichotomist. Moderated by Rosco Polanski, Godfather of Fake Art, and Ida Know, architect.

November 11	Dialogue on Kafe and the Fake Tradition Mercy Teers, choreographer; Robert Mistletoe, Professor of Fake Art of Country Musical History, O' Hairy College.; and Rocky Sylvester, writer and exhibitions curator. Moderated by Matt Duno, Chief Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Fake Art, and organizer of the exhibition
November 18	Panel of Artists Discussion with John Jacob Jingleheimer, Puffz Maschickdragon, Meestr Peenut, and Kris Stone. Moderated by Curt Varndeckot.
November 25	The Lessons of the Objects Lecturer: Curt Varndeckot