Cover of the publication Atget. John Szarkowski. 2000. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
In concert with the current photography exhibition Eugène Atget: “Documents pour artistes”, MoMA has republished Atget, a richly illustrated title first published by the Museum in 2000.
Lester Beall. Rural Electrification Administration. 1937. Lithograph, 40 x 30″ (101.6 x 76.2 cm). Gift of the designer
I won’t be naming any names, but recently someone admitted to me that they just don’t “get” posters. I don’t get what’s not to get.
Architect's Cubes. John Bennett and Gustavo Bonevardi. 2010
The final post in our series on architect collaborations focuses on a duo familiar with inter-disciplinary work, but new to commercial product design.
Architect’s Cubes. John Bennett and Gustavo Bonevardi. 2010
Vasnetsov Viktor Mikhailovich. Fight of Scythians and Slavs. 1881. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Slavs and Tatars is a collective founded in 2006. Through their printed work, installations, and performance lectures, they investigate the spheres of cultural influence at work in the vastly complex regions east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China.
Print Studio Editions, featuring prints and artist book projects
Last week Print Studio came to a close after six great weeks of productivity and experimentation with the medium of print.
D. W. Griffith. A Corner in Wheat. 1909. USA. Film: 35mm, black-and-white, silent, approx. 15 min. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Actinograph Corp. Preserved with funding from The Lillian Gish Trust for Film Preservation
Ripped from the headlines! Based on a true story!
Oftentimes the story on which a film is based derives from real life events. Inspiration from actual historic or contemporaneous incidents is not a new phenomenon in the cinema.
Today, we continue an exploration of architects who have been asked to adapt their structural design concepts for small, home products available at the MoMA Design Store.
Diego Rivera. Pneumatic Drill (cartoon for Pneumatic Drilling). 1931. Charcoal on paper, 97 1/4 x 76 7/8″ (247 x 195.2 cm). Museo Dolores Olmedo, Xochimilco, Mexico. © 2012 Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, México, D.F./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Diego Rivera was enthralled with New York City from the moment he arrived here in November 1931, six weeks before the opening of his retrospective exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.
This week’s Ten-Minute Talk features David Senior, bibliographer at the MoMA Library and curator of Millennium Magazines in conversation with featured artist Emily Roysdon.
Terrain Vase. Stephan Jaklitsch. 2011
In 1932, MoMA established the world’s first curatorial department devoted to architecture and design. Since then, the MoMA Design Store has collaborated with a number of established and emerging architects, inviting them to develop thoughtful, engaging home products that encourage exploration of the discipline’s key themes including structure, spatial organization, and materials.
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