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May 24, 2013

Dramaturgy and Gut: Inside Claes Oldenburg’s Mouse Museum

Posted by Leora Morinis

There are people sighing in the Mouse Museum. They are moaning, clucking, and cooing, too.(1) There’s no telling which objects elicit which murmured reaction, since part of Mouse Museum’s potency derives from affinities between things

May 23, 2013

My Friends Immersed in their Brilliant Work: Cross-Museum Collective Teens X Ryan McNamara

Posted by Calder Zwicky

Alya Albert, 19, is an alumnus of our In the Making teen arts program and a second-year Cross-Museum Collective member. On Sunday May 19, she and the other CMC teens, under the guidance of artist [...]

Oldenburg’s Burgers: Delicious at All Ages

Posted by Hannah Kim, Tauni Malmgren

MoMA’s current exhibition, Claes Oldenburg: The Street and The Store, celebrates the early years of artist Claes Oldenburg’s extraordinary career, when he experimented with painting and sculpture by reworking the stuff of every day into [...]

May 21, 2013

Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring

Posted by Charles Silver

These notes accompany screenings of Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring on May 22, 23, and 24 in Theater 3. Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) had turned 40, and had already directed 20 films

May 20, 2013

Welcome to MoMA Studio: Exchange Café

Posted by Caroline Woolard

MoMA Studio: Exchange Café honors the power of reciprocity. From everyday barter practices to artistic exchange systems, I aim to make legible a relationship between works in MoMA’s collection and contemporary movements to reclaim the [...]

May 17, 2013

Making the Rain

Posted by Random International

Rain Room‘s conception was swift. We were coming up with ideas for dropping an image from above, so each individual pixel would fall into place, using water on water-reactive ground.

FIAF Congress 2013: A Visit to Barcelona’s Filmoteca de Cataluyna

Posted by Anne Morra

Chief film curator Rajendra Roy and I attended the 69th congress of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), in Barcelona, Spain, April 21–27. Each year the member and associate film archives convene in a [...]

May 15, 2013

A Modern Way to Explore Three Great Figures of Mexican Art

Posted by Hannah Kim, Tauni Malmgren

Taking monumental frescos to a multitouch screen, MoMA’s eBook Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Josè Clemente Orozco offers a fresh exploration of three great figures in the revival of mural painting that brought modern [...]

May 14, 2013

Claude Chabrol’s The Cousins

Posted by Charles Silver

These notes accompany screenings of Claude Chabrol’s The Cousins on May 15, 16, and 17 in Theater 3. When Andrew Sarris published Interviews with Film Directors in 1967, he could already write that Claude Chabrol [...]

May 13, 2013

Practice and Progress: The MoMA Alzheimer’s Project Exchange

Posted by Meryl Schwartz

I used to take dance classes as a kid, and I remember the first time I walked into MoMA I was struck by the gallery floors—perfect for dancing.

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1913 Centennial Celebration

MoMA celebrates the landmark year 1913 with a series of videos highlighting important works from 1913 in the Museum’s collection.

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Hurricane Sandy Aftermath - Tips for Artists

In this series of posts conservators offer tips for artists for dealing with wet artworks in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. All posts are prepared by members of AIC-CERT (American Institute for Conservation – Conservation Emergency Response Team). AIC-CERT responds to the needs of cultural institutions during emergencies and disasters through coordinated efforts with first responders, state agencies, vendors and the public.