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September 18, 2014 | International Program

Building Global Networks: The 2014 International Curatorial Institute

Posted by Jay Levenson, Director, International Program Elizabeth W. Easton, Cofounder and Director, Center for Curatorial Leadership

MoMA Chief Conservator Jim Coddington addresses International Curatorial Institute participants in MoMA’s paintings conservation lab. Photo: Sarah Lookofsky

This July, MoMA’s International Program invited modern- and contemporary-art curators from around the world to participate in the 2014 International Curatorial Institute, a new two-week intensive program focused on leadership development and organizational strategy. Designed in collaboration with the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) with the aim of expanding participants’ capacity to tackle leadership challenges facing 21st-century museums

May 14, 2014 | International Program, Library and Archives

Modern Art through Contemporary Eyes: Correspondence from MoMA’s International Program

Posted by Tellina Liu, Project Archives Assistant Katharine Rovanpera, Project Archives Assistant

From left: Alexander Calder. The Big Gong. 1952. IC/IP, I.A.56. The Museum of Modern Art Archives; Installation view of Calder’s The Big Gong (top) in Twelve Modern American Painters and Sculptors, Musée National d’Art Modern, Paris, 1953. IC/IP, I.A.64. The Museum of Modern Art Archives

This past year the MoMA Archives processed and opened to the public the full record history of MoMA’s International Council and International Program, a collection so large that it required the work of three staff members to complete it in one year. One benefit of processing a large collection as a team was the opportunity to share our most interesting discoveries with one another.

February 15, 2013 | Behind the Scenes, International Program

Hello, My Name Is…post!

Posted by Miki Kaneda, Mellon C-MAP Fellow

Launching on February 15, post is an extension of research happening in The Museum of Modern Art’s C-MAP (Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives in a Global Age) research initiative, which began in 2009.

April 30, 2012 | International Program, MoMA Stores

Good Neighbor Policy: The History of a Long Friendship between MoMA and Mexico

Posted by Jay Levenson, Director, International Program

Diego Rivera. Agrarian Leader Zapata. 1931. Fresco on reinforced cement in galvanized-steel framework. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund

This year marks the 150^th anniversary of the Mexican army’s defeat of French troops at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, known colloquially today as Cinco de Mayo. It is now commemorated far north of the border, as Americans have embraced the date as a colorful celebration of Mexican art, food, and music.