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June 22, 2016 | Intern Chronicles

In Search of MoMA’s “Lost” History: Uncovering Efforts to Rescue Artists and Their Patrons

Posted by Christina Eliopoulos, 2014–16 Dedalus Fellow, Museum Archives

Photograph taken on the occasion of the exhibition Artists in Exile, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, March 1942. First row, left to right: Matta Echaurren, Ossip Zadkine, Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, Marc Chagall, Fernand Léger; second row: André Breton, Piet Mondrian, André Masson, Amédee Ozenfant, Jacques Lipchitz, Pavel Tchelitchew, Kurt Seligmann, Eugene Berman. A number of these artists were aided by the Museum. Photo: George Platt Lynes. Photographic Archive. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York

During WWII, The Museum of Modern Art played an integral role in assisting artists, art historians, dealers, and their immediate families in escaping from Europe to America. After the fall of Paris to the Nazis in June 1940 the Museum began to receive numerous requests for help to flee to the U.S.

November 4, 2015 | Library and Archives

From the Archives: “GOOD NEWS PICASSO HAS AGREED TO EXHIBITION AT MOMA”

Posted by Jonathan Lill, Project Manager, MoMA Archives

That all-caps title was the message relayed by MoMA staff from Alfred H. Barr, Jr., the Director of Museum Collections, to René d’Harnoncourt, the Museum’s director, confirming that the landmark exhibition The Sculpture of Picasso would indeed

October 13, 2015 | Library and Archives

The Margaret Scolari Barr Papers: Now Open for Research at MoMA Archives

Posted by Elena Cordova, Project Archivist, MoMA Archives

Margaret Scolari Barr with Alfred H. Barr, Jr., January 7, 1971. Photograph by Gjon Mili. Margaret Scolari Barr Papers, V.9*. The Museum of Modern Art Archives

The Margaret Scolari Barr Papers, which document the life and career of Margaret Scolari Barr—noted art historian, teacher, supporter of the arts, and wife of MoMA’s founding director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr—are now open for research at the MoMA Archives.

January 21, 2015 | Collection & Exhibitions

Contemporary Painting Exhibitions at MoMA: A Brief History

Posted by Margaret Ewing, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture

Installation view of The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, December 14, 2014–April 5, 2015. Photo by John Wronn. © 2015 The Museum of Modern Art

The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World has, as the critics have said, been “a long time coming” and “long anticipated.” The art world has been waiting for MoMA to take a position on contemporary painting now that worry over the “death of painting” in the 1980s and 1990s has been more or less settled by the medium’s persistence in both artists’ studios and the (much-maligned) painting-heavy art market.

March 11, 2010 | Behind the Scenes, Collection & Exhibitions

Small Steps Lead to Bigger Changes: MoMA’s Shifting Wall Colors

Posted by Eleonore Hugendubel, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting of Sculpture

On one of my recent early-morning checks of the fifth-floor collection galleries—a daily duty of the curatorial staff, to spot any oddities—an elusive, visceral feeling gave me pause. It took me a moment to recognize that it was prompted by the wall color, which, as I moved from the European Expressionist gallery to the adjacent Matisse room, had changed from a light grey to what appeared to be a bright white. This color change is subtle enough to likely go unnoticed by many visitors, but deserves a brief moment of attention.

View of Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection, July 17, 2009–August 31, 2009. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: John Wronn