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April 29, 2016 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions

Exploring the Legacy of Marcel Broodthaers with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Rodney Graham

Posted by Marina Molarsky-Beck, 12-Month Intern, Department of Drawings and Prints

In 1964, the 40-year-old Marcel Broodthaers entered the world of art with his first solo exhibition. Until the early 1960s, he was a poet and photographer with ventures in filmmaking, journalism, and dealing books—but he had not yet exhibited visual art. He heralded his arrival on the art scene with an invitation printed in block lettering that declared: “I, too, wondered whether I could not sell something and succeed in life.” In this sideways shift, Broodthaers launched his own career with the same wit and skepticism that would characterize his approach to art.

April 21, 2016 | Collection & Exhibitions, Intern Chronicles

Museum Museum: From Marcel Broodthaers to Hito Steyerl

Posted by Marina Molarsky-Beck, 12-Month Intern, Department of Drawings and Prints

A visitor to MoMA’s current Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective exhibition must traverse a sea of potted palms to enter the galleries. The palms, along with a series of prints hanging on the surrounding walls, comprise a work entitled L’entrée de l’exposition (The entry to the exhibition).

April 18, 2016 | Collection & Exhibitions, Events & Programs, Learning and Engagement

Freedom to Create, Rethink, and Uncover: Participating in Broodthaers’s Process

Posted by Jackie Armstrong, Associate Educator, Visitor Research and Experience, Department of Education

Art making during Erasures: A Poetry Workshop Inspired by Marcel Broodthaers. All photos by Beatriz Meseguer/onwhitewall.com

If you’ve read some of my other blog posts, you’ll know that MoMA has been experimenting with “pop-ups”—drop-in learning and art-making spaces—in closer proximity to the galleries for the past couple of years. These impromptu spaces are something that the Department of Education has long advocated for because offering hands-on activities helps visitors make connections to the art on view.

March 25, 2016 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions, Events & Programs

Creating from Erasing: A Workshop Inspired by Marcel Broodthaers

Posted by Henry Murphy, Fellow, Public Programs MoMA/Studio Museum in Harlem

Diane Bertolo, book artist, leads participants in an erasure.

Artist Diane Bertolo leads participants in an erasure. All images: Erasures: A Poetry Workshop Inspired by Marcel Broodthaers, March 22, 2016, The Museum of Modern Art. Photographer: Beatriz Meseguer/onwhitewall.com. © 2016 The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective bursts at the seams with text in all forms. Given Marcel Broodthaers’s interest in language, it’s fitting that MoMA’s second-floor bookstore is where, every Tuesday for the next four weeks, visitors have the opportunity to explore the artist’s work in a workshop led by Elizabeth Zuba, a poet and translator of the artist’s work, and Diane Bertolo, an artist and Broodthaers enthusiast.