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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.

October 14, 2010 | Publications

Christina’s World and Contemporary Chinese Art

Posted by Gwen Farrelly, Assistant Director, International Program

Before I read MoMA’s new publication Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents, if someone had asked me to identify a painting from MoMA’s collection that was of central importance to a generation of artists emerging from the Cultural Revolution in China, I’m pretty sure I would not have picked Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World.

October 4, 2010 | Publications

Documenting Histories: Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents

Posted by Gwen Farrelly, Assistant Director, International Program

<i>Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents</i> for sale at the co-launch event at the Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong on September 7, 2010. Photo © Chi Wai

Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents for sale at the co-launch event at the Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong on September 7, 2010. Photo © Chi Wai

On October 15, MoMA launches the fifth volume in its Primary Documents series, Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents, which was edited by Professor Wu Hung. The publication brings together, translates, and contextualizes primary documents that are pertinent to a deeper understanding of recent artistic practice in China, but which were not previously available in the English language.

September 8, 2010 | Events & Programs

Learning from Brazil

Posted by Wendy Woon, Edward John Noble Deputy Director for Education

View of the Niterói Contemporary Art Museum as seen from the Maquinho, the Museum’s Community Art Center. Photo: Pablo Helguera

In this age of facile and constant communication—when you can Google and search anything you need to know, and e-mail or Skype with any one of your colleagues globally—the question arises: Why travel abroad to research?

On a recent research trip to Brazil, I was reminded of the reason by the astute Luiz [Guilherme] Vergara, former director of the Niterói Contemporary Art Museum and professor of art at the Federal University of Niterói: “Geography is everything.” This he noted as we looked out from a community center high up on a mountain at the base of a favela, overlooking a breathtaking view of a bay and the Niteroi Museum, a superb Niemeyer-designed spaceship-like form. The museum and the center work closely in tandem in the community.

August 30, 2010 | Collection & Exhibitions, Publications

MoMA and the World: The International Program

Posted by Amy Horschak, Assistant Director, Academic Programs

Clement Greenberg speaking in New Delhi in 1967 at a presentation of the MoMA exhibition Two Decades of American Painting

An interview with Jay Levenson, Director, International Program, The Museum of Modern Art

In 1952, The Museum of Modern Art established the International Program of Circulating Exhibitions, which was supported by a grant from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, with the aim of sending exhibitions to museums around the world. The following year, the International Council was organized to provide long-term financial support to the program.

Amy Horschak: In light of MoMA’s upcoming installation Abstract Expressionist New York and the exhibition of many of the “AbEx” artists abroad by the International Program (IP) in the 1950s, can you comment on the often-made claims that the IP was, at that time, part of a CIA project?