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June 27, 2012 | Behind the Scenes, Events & Programs

Lights, Camera, Action: The School Visits Film Shoot

Posted by Colleen Brogan, Digital Learning Project Coordinator

Museum educators often struggle with how to capture the impact of our programs. There are so many incredible programs offered by the MoMA Education Department for many different audiences that take the form of tours, talks, art-making classes, drop-in programs, and digital and analog games, and documenting a visitor’s experience of these ephemeral events is difficult.

June 11, 2012 | Behind the Scenes, Intern Chronicles

Discovering the Sights and Sites of the Havana Biennial

Posted by Janelle Grace, Publicity Coordinator, Department of Communciations

Ellen leads the way as we descend into the ruins of the ballet school

After our cab driver takes us what feels far away from the city center of Havana—past brightly colored houses, ominous government buildings, and a circus tent—Ellen and I finally arrive at the Instituto Superior de Artes (ISA), or Higher Institute of Art.

June 4, 2012 | Behind the Scenes, Intern Chronicles

Music as Weather: Reflections on a Journey East

Posted by Allison Tepper, 12-Month Fluxus Intern, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books

Sitting before a large glass window at Narita International Airport, en route back home to New York, I contemplated endings. For the past two weeks I had been traveling across Japan on a travel grant, researching Japanese performance and print culture from the historical avant-garde to the contemporary.

May 18, 2012 | Behind the Scenes, Film

Casablanca: A Case Study in the Best Surviving Original Film Material

Posted by Anne Morra, Associate Curator, Department of Film

Poster for Casablanca. 1943. USA. Directed by Michael Curtiz

There is no more beloved American film than Casablanca (1943). In 1989 Casablanca was selected for inclusion on the National Film Registry, a designation reserved for films considered to be “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

May 10, 2012 | Artists, Behind the Scenes, Collection & Exhibitions

Installing Ellsworth Kelly’s Sculpture for a Large Wall

Posted by Cara Manes, Collection Specialist, Department of Painting and Sculpture

If you’ve visited the Museum in the past few months, you may have seen the special installation of F-111, the massive 23-panel painting that artist James Rosenquist made to wrap around the four walls of the Leo Castelli Gallery

May 2, 2012 | Behind the Scenes, Events & Programs, Family & Kids

CLICK@MoMA: Wearable Technology!

Posted by Calder Zwicky, Assistant Director, Teen and Community Partnerships

Diana Eng introduces the concept of illuminated fashion

This season, as part of our third [email protected] digital technology course for teens, we teamed up with the amazing crew over at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center to collaborate on a course that blends cutting-edge technology, beautiful fashion, and MoMA’s collection of incredible artwork into one amazing set of workshops. The teens, under the guidance of Diana Eng, have been hard at work getting their final, technology-based designs ready for another In the Making first: a teen-created, teen-modeled fashion show! Below, Diana shares her thoughts on one of the class’s first successful experiments.

—Calder Zwicky, Associate Educator of Teen and Community Programs

It’s week eight and our [email protected] class is preparing for our huge wearable technology fashion show, presented as part of the upcoming In the Making teen art show. On the runway we’ll have inflatable superhero costumes, LED embroidered jackets and tops, and even computer-programmed electroluminescent garments.

April 16, 2012 | Behind the Scenes, Events & Programs, Family & Kids

Daredevils DO what others DON’T!

Posted by Calder Zwicky, Assistant Director, Teen and Community Partnerships

Shaping molten glass in Art for Daredevils

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.

March 29, 2012 | Artists, Behind the Scenes

Celebrating Tibor Kalman and 20 Years of Blue Skies

Posted by Bonnie Mackay, Director of Creative and Marketing, the MoMA Stores

Tibor Kalman and Emanuela Frattini Magnusson. Sky Umbrella. 1992

In 1992 the MoMA Design Store introduced a new umbrella to its product mix. The umbrella’s exterior gave away nothing more than a simple black canopy with a classic wooden handle. Once opened, however, a cheerful blue sky dotted with fluffy white clouds was revealed, causing delight on even the rainiest of days.

March 22, 2012 | Behind the Scenes, Film

Make It Giant: MoMA FILM!

Posted by Brigitta Bungard, Assistant Creative Director, Department of Advertising and Graphic Design

Most of my friends are seasoned New Yorkers who know their way around the city—where to find the best restaurants, sample sales, and live music—but whenever I invite them to see a film at MoMA with me, I hear, “Oh, MoMA shows film? I had no idea! What, like black-and-white art flicks?”

March 21, 2012 | Artists, Behind the Scenes

Architect Collaborations at the MoMA Design Store: John Bennett and Gustavo Bonevardi

Posted by Bonnie Mackay, Director of Creative and Marketing, the MoMA Stores

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

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