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October 24, 2014 | Collection & Exhibitions, Five for Friday

Five for Friday: Halloween Costume Inspiration from MoMA’s Collection

Posted by Gretchen Scott, Building Project Digital Marketing Manager, Marketing and Communications

Five for Friday, written by a variety of MoMA staff members, is our attempt to spotlight some of the compelling, charming, and downright curious works in the Museum’s rich collection.

October 23, 2014 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions, Publications

Robert Gober in Time

Posted by Makiko Wholey, Department Coordinator, Department of Publications

Cover of Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor, published by The Museum of Modern Art

Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor, published to accompany the artist’s retrospective at MoMA, is unconventional in a few ways.

October 17, 2014 | Collection & Exhibitions, Library and Archives

Have a Cow, Man

Posted by Jennifer Tobias, Librarian, Reader Services

Recently I explored a collection of mail art held by the MoMA Library and put together a small show titled Analog Network: Mail Art, 1960–1999. It’s on view in the Education and Research Building through January 5.

October 9, 2014 | Collection & Exhibitions, Events & Programs

Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: An Evening of Cocktails with Toulouse-Lautrec’s Muses

Posted by Marianne Eggler, MoMA class instructor, design historian, and adjunct professor

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Reine de joie (Queen of Joy). 1892. Lithograph, sheet: 59 7/16 x 39 7/16 in. (151 x 100.1 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rodgers

My favorite part of Woody Allen’s 2011 film Midnight in Paris is the moment when actress Marion Cotillard reveals her preferred moment from Paris’s illustrious past. Instead of being magically transported to the roaring 1920s of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda, Pablo Picasso, and Gertrude Stein, she prefers the glamour of the Belle Époque—the riotous 1890s when the City of Lights basked in all its outrageous fin-de-siècle glory.

October 7, 2014 | Behind the Scenes, Collection & Exhibitions, Conservation

The Conservation of Henri Matisse’s The Swimming Pool

Posted by Laura Neufeld, Assistant Paper Conservator, Department of Conservation

The centerpiece of the exhibition Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs, Matisse’s remarkable room-size cut-out The Swimming Pool returns to the MoMA galleries for the first time in more than 20 years. In this video, MoMA’s Department of Conservation shares a behind-the-scenes look at the process of conserving this beloved artwork, and in the text below conservator Laura Neufeld provides background on the project.

October 2, 2014 | Collection & Exhibitions, Design

Design and Violence: One Year Later

Posted by Michelle Millar Fisher, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design

“From the branches of a mango tree, in its spreading shade on a hot May morning in a north Indian village, the bodies of two teenaged women hang”—Nivedita Menon

“Every three seconds, somewhere on this planet, a person is forced to flee his or her home”—António Guterres

“Violence begets violence”—Judge Shira Scheindlin

Design and Violence, an online curatorial experiment that explores the manifestations of violence in contemporary society, is a year old.

September 30, 2014 | Collection & Exhibitions, Design

The White Elephant in the Gallery

Posted by Pamela Popeson, Department Preparator, Department of Architecture and Design

Jimenez Lai. White Elephant. 2011. Aluminum, rubber, sandblasted polycarbonate, fabric, cowhide, polyfill batting, 144" X 147" X 90". Moma Imaging, John Wronn

Jimenez Lai. White Elephant (Privately Soft). 2011. Aluminum, rubber, sandblasted polycarbonate, fabric, cowhide, and polyfill batting, 144 X 147 X 90″. Photo: John Wronn

With its fully furnished interior space fitted-out in overstuffed cowhide, and an exterior clad in poly-carbonate panels Jimenez Lai’s White Elephant (Privately Soft) operates as both a free standing mini-building and as maxi-furniture.

September 24, 2014 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions

Matisse’s Cut-Outs at MoMA: A Look Back

Posted by Samantha Friedman, Assistant Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints

On October 12, the exhibition Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs—the largest presentation of this final chapter of Matisse’s work ever mounted— will open at MoMA. Much of the anticipation surrounding this show stems from the fact that this visually vibrant and conceptually radical body of work has not been seen on this scale in New York in over 50 years.

September 23, 2014 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions, Publications

Toulouse-Lautrec’s Portraits of Paris: “I don’t detail you. I totalize you!”

Posted by Julia Friedman, Intern, Department of Publications

Cover of the publication The Paris of Youlouse-Lautrec: Prints and Posters from The Museum of Modern Art, published by The Museum of Modern Art

Cover of the publication The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec: Prints and Posters from The Museum of Modern Art, published by The Museum of Modern Art

“The Moulin Rouge hired the most famous dancers to perform the quadrille naturaliste (cancan), which delighted spectators with its swish of petticoats and flashing flesh as legs flew high—knickers optional,” writes Sarah Suzuki, Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints, in The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec: Prints and Posters from The Museum of Modern Art.

September 5, 2014 | Collection & Exhibitions

Now in the Galleries: Gustav Klimt’s Adele Bloch-Bauer II

Posted by Jason Persse, Editorial Manager, Marketing and Communications

Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862–1918). Adele Bloch-Bauer II. 1912. Oil on canvas. Private collection. © 2014 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: Jonathan Muzikar

We are thrilled to announce that Gustav Klimt’s stunning Adele Bloch-Bauer II, one of two formal portraits that the artist made of his patron Adele Bloch-Bauer, is on view in MoMA’s fifth-floor Painting and Sculpture Galleries beginning today, as a special long-term loan from a private collection.

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