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September 21, 2012  |  Five for Friday
Five for Friday: School Desks Do Not a Prison Make

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.

Labor Day is in the rear-view mirror, and millions of children have been forced to say goodbye to the halcyon days of summer and trudge listlessly back to school.

June 15, 2012  |  Five for Friday
Five for Friday: The Five Stages of Cat Ownership

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.

Our naive little brains all stuffed with visions of cuddling and companionship, my wife and I recently adopted an impossibly adorable pair of kittens.

June 1, 2012  |  Five for Friday
Five for Friday: Dive In!

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.

When I first read this article about the world’s most beautiful public pools, I couldn’t help but do a little daydreaming.

May 4, 2012  |  Artists, Five for Friday
Five for Friday: Mexican Muralists on Cinco de Mayo

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.

April 6, 2012  |  Five for Friday
Five for Friday (Plus One): MoMA’s Car Collection

Installation view of AUTObodies: speed, sport, trasport, MoMA QNS, June 2002. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Image © 2002 David Allison

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.

March 23, 2012  |  Five for Friday
Five for Friday: Bracketology and Art

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.

The NCAA men’s basketball tournament is underway, and the even the President has weighed in with his choices for “the bracket.”

February 17, 2012  |  Five for Friday
Five for Friday: In the Days of Downton Abbey

Though we enjoy the futuristic music of Kraftwerk and the photographs of Cindy Sherman, employees at MoMA are also enjoying the delicate, antique charms of Downton Abbey. In many ways, the themes of the series reflect a lot of the wild beginnings of modern art.

February 3, 2012  |  Five for Friday
Five for Friday: The Fine Art of [American] Football

With our own New York Giants headed to Super Bowl XLVI (that’s “46” for the non-Romans out there), many of us MoMA staffers have an especially severe case of [American] football fever. Hey, did you just roll our eyes at me? Look, buddy, you can be an art nerd and still know your Xs and Os.

January 20, 2012  |  Five for Friday
Five for Friday: This Is New York

I bore myself (and many others, I’m sure) with how often I mention that I grew up in New York City and how much it’s changed over the years—also, did you happen to know about A and have you gone to B yet or eaten at C—and OMG don’t ever D at E because insert lengthy anecdote here.

October 28, 2011  |  Five for Friday
Five for Friday: Halloween’s Modern Monsters

Halloween is my favorite holiday…by a wide margin. If we’re being honest, I might be a little too excited about October 31. Chalk it up to the influence of too many horror movies