MoMA

April 27, 2012

Create Ability: An Opportunity to Be Creative, A Chance to Grow

Posted by Kirsten Schroeder

In a previous post I wrote about our Create Ability program for children and adults with learning or developmental disabilities, and the annual exhibition of work produced by these participants that was about to be [...]

April 26, 2012

Diego Rivera and the Rockefellers

Posted by Jodi Roberts

Rivera’s partnership with the Rockefeller family continues to be one of the most intriguing artist/patron relationships of the 20th century. The research we completed for the exhibition Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern [...]

April 25, 2012

My Fake ID: Teens Creating Art as Invented Characters

Posted by Calder Zwicky

Inspired by our current Cindy Sherman retrospective, the My Fake ID course for teens has centered around the development of constructed personas.

Read more | 1 comment

April 24, 2012

Charles Chaplin’s Limelight

Posted by Charles Silver

Limelight-claire-bloom-and-charlie-chaplin-e1334343015772-150x150

These notes accompany the screenings of Charles Chaplin’s Limelight on April 25, 26, and 27 in Theater 3. If Charles Chaplin‘s Modern Times is a poignantly graceful valediction to the silent cinema,

Student Counsel: Creating Destination: Mexico’s Visual Identity with Centro, University for Design and Media, Mexico

Posted by Brian Bergeron

Each of the MoMA Design Store’s Destination: Design projects has a unique visual identity inspired by the character of the region’s product collection. In the past, graphics have been designed in-house or by one of [...]

Read more | 1 comment

April 20, 2012

Discovering Contemporary Mexican Design

Posted by Ana Elena Mallet

Ana Elena Mallet is an independent curator based in Mexico City. She specializes in contemporary design and provided curatorial direction for Destination: Mexico, the latest in the MoMA Design Store’s Destination: Design series, which showcases [...]

Read more | 1 comment

April 19, 2012

Celebrating 10 Explorations of International Design with the MoMA Design Store

Posted by Bonnie Mackay

A modern day Silk Road of sorts, the MoMA Design Store’s Destination: Design series will celebrate its 10th exploration this year with a product collection highlighting the best in contemporary Mexican design.

April 18, 2012

Print/Out: General Idea

Posted by Kim Conaty

“Visitors are invited to take balloons that have floated to the ground.” Now that’s a label you don’t typically see on the walls of a museum! Magi© Bullet (1992), by the Canadian artist’s group General [...]

Read more | 1 comment

April 17, 2012

Max Ophuls’s Le Plaisir

Posted by Charles Silver

These notes accompany the screenings of Max Ophuls’s Le Plaisir on April 18, 19, and 20 in Theater 3. Le Plaisir, like Charles Chaplin’s The Circus, has suffered neglect over the years because it happens [...]

April 16, 2012

Daredevils DO what others DON’T!

Posted by Calder Zwicky

One of the more viscerally exciting In the Making courses that we’re offering our teens this season is Art for Daredevils: Pranks, Tricks, and Death-Defying Stunts.