Performance

Nighthawks

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At the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), *Nighthawks* is presented as a live, free performance featuring Ron Peck, staged in dialogue with Edward Hopper’s 1942 image of an all-night diner and its four late-shift figures framed by glass. The piece treats New York as a set of illuminated rooms cut into a dark street, where closeness can still read as distance. Hopper’s painting has long functioned as a shorthand for modern urban solitude in American culture. One clear point emerges: the work’s power lies in how little it explains.