NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art has commissioned the New York –based artist collective Grand Openings to compose a multifaceted, live program of performances to take place in The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium and in other locations throughout the Museum from July 20 through August 1, 2011. Over the course of the 13-day exhibition, the group’s five core members— Ei Arakawa, Jutta Koether, Jay Sanders, Emily Sundblad, and Stefan Tcherepnin—will perform partly scripted and partly improvised actions, loose choreographies, musical scores, and acts of self-reflection, and will invite the collaboration of musicians, performance art scholars, sound artists, filmmakers, writers, and friends. The title of the program, refers to an additional documentary element of the work—a daily account of the actions in the form of handwritten texts, fabricated objects, and audio podcasts, which will be pre