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August 11, 2014 | Intern Chronicles

Performance Platform Perspectives: A Documentary Project about MPA-Berlin

Posted by Cindy Yeh, 12-Month Digital Learning Intern

East Side Gallery/Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, May 26, 2014. Photo: Cindy Yeh

Berlin, the Mecca of performance art, a site of reconciliation and growth, and a community of refugees finding their safe space nestled between street art and reclaimed historical spaces. Continuing my work of performance art documentation, I traveled to Berlin to explore current trends in the medium. During the month of May, many performances take place around the world, but MPA-Berlin really caught my eye because of the intensity of its programming for the month.

July 30, 2014 | Intern Chronicles

The Past Is Present: Modern and Contemporary Art in Italy

Posted by Talia Kwartler, 12-Month Intern, Department of Painting and Sculpture

In Italian, un confronto; in English, a comparison, contrast, or confrontation. In New York, old buildings, like Dia:Beacon, are sometimes beautifully repurposed as museums, but more often they are torn down for something new. In Italy, factories and castles are often transformed into modern and contemporary art institutions. The past confronts the present, and the present is enhanced through its relationship to history.

July 16, 2014 | Intern Chronicles

MuseumNext: Revelations in New Tech, Digital Innovation, and Trends

Posted by Marietta Zafirakos, 12-Month Intern, Adult and Academic Programs

Sage Gateshead, one of the venues for MuseumNext 2014. Photo: Marietta Zafirakos

How do museums innovate, where are museums heading, and where does digital technology fit within these institutions? These questions have been in my mind throughout my studies and during my internship in the Adult and Academic Programs at MoMA.

June 30, 2014 | Artists, Intern Chronicles

Art in the Landscape: Exploring Marfa, TX

Posted by Jennie Waldow, Louise Bourgeois 12-Month Intern, Department of Drawings and Prints

This May, I had the opportunity to travel to Marfa, Texas, using a generous travel stipend that is one of the fantastic perks of my internship. I’d always wanted to go to Marfa, a small town in West Texas that’s home to site-specific installations by Donald Judd, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Ilya Kabakov, Dan Flavin, and Roni Horn, among others.

June 26, 2014 | Intern Chronicles

The Innovation Route: The Journey Is the Destination

Posted by Aline Rezende, 12-Month Intern, MoMA R&D

First stop, the birth place of innovation as we know it, Victoria and Albert Museum, London; on right: Origins of the V&A. Print showing foreign departments in the Great Exhibition, 1851. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

R&D, or research and development, is commonly associated with innovation. Museums, traditionally, are not. Museums are associated with history. Even when displaying contemporary art, they look back into a recent history, not the future. Innovation demands looking into the future, conducting research into the unknown, without a concrete, expected outcome. A leap of faith.

May 30, 2014 | Intern Chronicles

Belonging, Equality, and Movement: Tracing Accessible and Inclusive Practices in San Francisco Museums

Posted by Berat Ornek, 12-Month Intern, Community and Access Programs

After a long and cold winter in New York, I found myself waiting outside the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco on a warm and sunny day. As I was waiting for my appointment with the museum’s Education and Access Manager, I was already comparing San Francisco with New York, and my hometown of Istanbul, in terms of accessibility and whether museums in these cities are relevant to people with disabilities.

May 22, 2014 | Intern Chronicles

The Big Picture: Media Methods at Newseum

Posted by Candace Ming, Intern, Department of Film

The entrance to Newsueum, Washington, DC. Image courtesy Newseum

April in Washington, DC. Cherry blossoms, sunny weather, and an in-depth analysis of one of Washington’s top attractions: the Newseum. Boasting six levels, 15 theaters, and 16 exhibits, the Newseum is one of the largest museums I have ever been to. Functioning as an interactive learning experience and a production facility—Al-Jazeera America broadcasts from the building—the Newseum is structured in a radically different way than MoMA.

April 23, 2014 | Intern Chronicles

Free-for-All: Shifting Museum Strategies for the Information Age

Posted by Amy Lehrburger, 12-Month Intern, Office of the Director

Each year, the American Law Institute hosts approximately 250 legal scholars and practitioners from around the country for a continuing education conference called Legal Issues in Museum Administration (LIMA). Attendees are in-house counsel, registrars, private practitioners, museum directors, and students.

April 7, 2014 | Intern Chronicles, Library and Archives

Once Upon a Time: Archives Tales at the Van Abbemuseum

Posted by Naomi Kuromiya, Administrative Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture

One of the many Contexts vitrines in Once Upon a Time…the Collection Now at the Van Abbemuseum

What kind of stories do a museum’s archives tell when read in tandem with masterpieces in their permanent collections? After allowing me to explore innovative exhibition strategies for archival material last summer, this year, MoMA’s intern travel grant gave me the opportunity to visit a Dutch museum that is contending with that exact question.

October 7, 2013 | Intern Chronicles, Library and Archives

Examining Archives Exhibition Strategies in Mexico City

Posted by Naomi Kuromiya, Administrative Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture

Installation view of Arkheia exhibition Visita al Archivo Olivier Debroise: entre la ficcion y el documento, 2011. Courtesy of Centro de Documentación Arkheia, MUAC, UNAM / Furniture design by Giacomo Castagnola.

Installation view of the Arkheia exhibition Visita al Archivo Olivier Debroise: entre la ficción y el documento, 2011. Courtesy of Centro de Documentación Arkheia, MUAC, UNAM. Furniture design by Giacomo Castagnola

Working with the fascinating collections in the MoMA Archives on a daily basis has led me to think about the ways in which archives share their unpublished material with the public.

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