Current Exhibits
With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America
With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America, MOCA’s new core exhibit, will bring to life the Museum’s unique historical content and birth a compelling art work by fusing itself with the architectural heart of its new home designed by Maya Lin on Centre Street. Metaphorically and literally, this “heart” will ground visitors, and be the focal point of the “new MOCA experience.” This presentation is an innovative approach to museum and exhibition design. It will facilitate a new way of interacting with content: through the evocative use of space that stirs visitors’ emotions and breaks down barriers to deeper learning and understanding.
Here & Now: Chinese Artists in New York
Curated by Zhijian Qian
This exhibition showcases twelve contemporary artists of Chinese heritage, who over the last two decades have established their careers in the global metropolis of New York. Presented in three consecutive chapters—Part I: Visual Memories, Part II: Crossing Boundaries, and Part III: Towards Transculturalism—Here & Now examines the shifting relationship between the artist and tradition, the crossing of boundaries in a multicultural environment, and the reinvention of culture. In a swiftly globalizing world, with China quickly emerging as a new superpower, New York’s Chinese artists are asking themselves, “Why still here?” and “Why still now?”
Chinatown Film Project
Chinatown is an evocative place. It exists in our cities and our imaginations, on our television screens and in our memories. Chinatown is a vibrant, sprawling immigrant community and a forgotten strip mall of buffet restaurants; it's the exploited Hollywood metaphor and yet a dense signifier of American noir.
The Chinatown Film Project tackles Chinatown's elusiveness and its stereotyped representations by constructing new images for the viewer. The project starts locally, where we asked ten of New York City’s most exciting filmmakers to present their unique vision of this global icon. This project will be showcased as one of the inaugural exhibitions in MOCA's expansive new space.
Featured award-winning filmmakers include:
* Wayne Wang
* Miguel Arteta
* So Yong Kim and Bradley Rust Gray
* Jem Cohen
The Chinatown Film Project features an online site where anyone can upload videos about Chinatowns around the world. This virtual community of makers and viewers speaks to a re-imagining of Chinatown as one interconnected global locality.
MOCA StoryMap
Now Accepting Submissions
Part of the core exhibit, the MOCA StoryMap gathers and documents the Chinese-American experience, one story at a time. By mixing images, audio and geography, each family story is catalogued and shared, creating a group portrait. Web access enables national participation, while a special interface in the museum allows for group activity and investigation.
Now you can contribute your stories to
MOCA's StoryMap >
