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October 16, 2015  |  Events & Programs, Learning and Engagement
This Is For You: Design Interactions at the Studio
Yuri Suzuki. Colour Chaser. 2010–13. Plastic and electronics components. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the designer. Photograph by Hitomi Kai Yoda

Yuri Suzuki. Colour Chaser. 2010–13. Plastic and electronics components. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the designer. Photograph by Hitomi Kai Yoda

What would music made from a conversation between a robot and a drawing sound like? How can you improve someone’s day using only creativity and an old toothbrush? Can discarded electronics be repurposed to make a responsive video project about endangered species?

October 13, 2015  |  Library and Archives
The Margaret Scolari Barr Papers: Now Open for Research at MoMA Archives
Margaret Scolari Barr with Alfred H. Barr, Jr., January 7, 1971. Photograph by Gjon Mili.  Margaret Scolari Barr Papers, V.9*. The Museum of Modern Art Archives

Margaret Scolari Barr with Alfred H. Barr, Jr., January 7, 1971. Photograph by Gjon Mili. Margaret Scolari Barr Papers, V.9*. The Museum of Modern Art Archives

The Margaret Scolari Barr Papers, which document the life and career of Margaret Scolari Barr—noted art historian, teacher, supporter of the arts, and wife of MoMA’s founding director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr—are now open for research at the MoMA Archives.

October 12, 2015  |  This Week at MoMA
This Week at MoMA: October 12–18

Experimental film, family-friendly fun, and iconic art—here’s our picks for the week.

October 7, 2015  |  Artists, Behind the Scenes
A Visit with Ryan McGinness at Lower East Side Printshop

Ryan McGinness at the Lower East Side Printshop. All photos by Jessica Womack

Ryan McGinness at the Lower East Side Printshop. All photos by Jessica Womack


For artist Ryan McGinness, printmaking is not a new endeavor. Though he primarily paints, sculpts, and creates installations, he has worked with several print studios over the years and is currently partnering with the Lower East Side Printshop for a Publishing Residency. Founded in the East Village in 1968 and moved to Midtown in 2005, the Lower East Side Printshop awards Publishing Residencies to contemporary artists so that they can work with a master printer to explore printmaking and create new work. MoMA’s Junior Associates visited the Lower East Side Printshop last week to meet McGinness and artistic director/master printer Erik Hougen.

October 5, 2015  |  This Week at MoMA,
This Week at MoMA: October 5–11

Screenings, exhibitions, and tours this week will all leave you feeling creative. Check it out:

October 1, 2015  |  Film
Who’s Taken by Storm?
Hipgnosis. Cover of Pink Floyd, Animals. 1977. Courtesy Roddy Bogawa and StormStudios

Hipgnosis. Album cover of Pink Floyd, Animals. 1977. Courtesy StormStudios and Roddy Bogawa

As a teenager growing up in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, grappling with his identity as an Asian American of Japanese heritage, Roddy Bogawa found community in the hardcore rock and punk scenes, where being different was cool. He and his friends spent hours perusing music stores and studying album covers.

September 29, 2015  |  Film
“I’ve been let down by Ingmar Bergman frequently, and I expect great things from Robert Zemeckis.”
The Walk. 2015. USA. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Courtesy of Sony Pictures

The Walk. 2015. USA. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Courtesy of Sony Pictures

I was a punkish young film critic for the Chicago Reader when I saw, and loved, Robert Zemeckis’s first feature film, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, in 1978. Almost 40 years later, I’m now a mature, mostly respectable curator in MoMA’s Department of Film, and I’m still a devoted Zemeckis fan

September 28, 2015  |  This Week at MoMA
This Week at MoMA: September 28–October 4

This week is packed with special events and don’t-miss activities. Here’s the roundup:

• Tonight, see Max Ophuls’s rarely screened Sans lendemain, this year’s edition of our annual presentation of a film from the Gaumont archives in France.

Participant artwork made during Andy Warhol's Materials and Process workshops

Participant artwork made during Andy Warhol’s Materials and Process workshops

• Tuesday is the final chance to explore Andy Warhol’s Materials and Process through art-making activities like collage, stenciling, and tracing.

• A major retrospective of the films of Robert Zemeckis kicks off this week with a screening of his newest film, The Walk, followed by a discussion with the director. And ticket packages are still available for our Back to the Future tripleheader on Saturday.

• Celebrating the new publication Photography at MoMA: 1960 to Now, the Forum on Contemporary Photography will be live-streamed on Wednesday. Hear from the curators and historians who contributed to the book, which presents work by more than 250 artists.

• Join us at the Museum or online on Saturday for Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Arte y Cultura Latinoamericana, a communal day of creating, updating, improving, and translating Wikipedia articles about Latin American art and culture.

Installation view of

Installation view of Art on Camera: Photographs by Shunk-Kender, 1960–1971, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 17, 2015–October 4, 2015. Photo: Scott Rudd

• This weekend is the last chance to see From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires: Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola and Art on Camera: Photographs by Shunk-Kender, 1960–1971,</em> two exhibitions that capture, through photography, the collaborative spirit of avant-garde art movements.</p>

• Stop by the MoMA Store in Soho on Saturday and Sunday for a jewelry Trunk Show with Lara Knutson, a New York–based artist and industrial designer.

• And head to MoMA PS1 for a Sunday Sessions afternoon marking the publication of In the Shadow a Shadow: The Work of Joan Jonas, with artists Alicia Hall Moran, Sung Hwan Kim, and David Michael DiGregorio paying tribute to Jonas’s work and influence.

September 23, 2015  |  Film
Films from Here: Arab Cinema, Out of Frame
Out on the Street. 2015. Egypt. Directed by Philip Rizk, Jasmina Metwaly

Out on the Street. 2015. Egypt. Directed by Philip Rizk, Jasmina Metwaly

In recent weeks, filmmakers featured in the series Films from Here: Recent Views from the Arab World have been sending me their thoughts on their films (which we will be sharing on MoMA’s social media channels).

September 22, 2015  |  Film
Modern Matinees: Ernst Lubitsch’s Trouble in Paradise
Trouble in Paradise. 1932. USA. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Acquired from Paramount Pictures. Preserved with funding from the Richard Griffith Memorial Fund

Trouble in Paradise. 1932. USA. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Acquired from Paramount Pictures. Preserved with funding from the Richard Griffith Memorial Fund

There is an old-fashioned expression about “honor among thieves.” What does this mean exactly? Perhaps this group swears an oath that no one criminal will interfere in the nefarious actions of another? If the question leaves you flummoxed, be sure to see the 1932 film Trouble in Paradise for an enjoyable resolution.