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September 29, 2010 | Modern Women

Modern Women Through MoMA’s History

Posted by Alexandra Schwartz, Curator of Contemporary Art, Montclair Art Museum and co-editor of Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art

For the publication Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art, Michelle Elligott, the Museum Archivist, contributed a wonderful essay entitled “Modern Women: A Partial History,” a kind of lexicon comprising historical entries on and capsule biographies of selected noteworthy women throughout the Museum’s history. In this video, she discusses some of these women and their impact both at MoMA and within the museum field in general.

Mining Modern Museum Education

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

Photo by Nancy Bulkeley. Cover of "The Questioning Public," a bulletin produced by The Museum of Modern Art. Fall 1947, Issue 1, Vol. XV

In Spring 2006, when I was preparing for my first interview for my current position as deputy director for education at MoMA, I spent some quality time with a fascinating book: Art in Our Time: A Chronicle of the Museum of Modern Art.