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December 17, 2015 | Library and Archives

From the Archives: Holiday Cards from MoMA

Posted by Michelle Elligott, Chief of Archives

Robert Indiana’s LOVE (1965) is one of many holiday cards commissioned by The Junior Council of the Museum. The image subsequently became well-known in various other contexts. © 2015 Morgan Art Foundation Ltd./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

The Museum of Modern Art’s Christmas card program was initiated in 1954 by the Museum’s Junior Council. The Junior Council, an affiliate group, had been founded five years earlier “to bring together a group of younger people who have a common interest in the arts and a desire to see them fostered soundly and liberally in this country.”

April 28, 2015 | Intern Chronicles

Archives on Display: Activating the Past, Challenging the Present

Posted by Christina Eliopoulos, 2014–16 Dedalus Fellow, Museum Archives

Hrair Sarkissian. istory. 2011. Archival inkjet print, 150 x 190 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Kalfayan Galleries, Athens – Thessaloniki

As an intern in the MoMA Archives, my favorite part of the day is paging through the material that our researchers have requested. Though pulling document files doesn’t seem like the most exciting task in the world, it is for me, because it’s the exact moment when archives come alive. Sitting in the stacks in hundreds of archival boxes, these documents are inactive forces of potential energy waiting to be picked up.

February 25, 2015 | Behind the Scenes, Library and Archives

FOUND! Photographs from MoMA’s 1944 Norman Bel Geddes’ War Maneuver Models Exhibition

Posted by Thomas Grischkowsky, Archives Specialist, Museum Archives

"Sterling silver models of tanks, jeeps, trucks, etc." being installed during exhibition. Exhibition Dates: January 26, 1944 through March 5, 1944. Photographic Archive. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. Photographer, Herbert Gehr

“Sterling silver models of tanks, jeeps, trucks, etc.” being installed for the exhibition Norman Bel Geddes’ War Maneuver Models, January 26–March 5, 1944. Photographic Archive. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. Photographer: Herbert Gehr

As Archives Specialist in the MoMA Archives, I am always on the prowl for images depicting how our exhibitions were installed. Sadly, up until the 1960s only about 75% of MoMA’s exhibitions were documented with official installation photographs, usually due to budget constraints. So imagine my excitement on one dark, drab winter day earlier this year when, while working in the Photographic Archive, I came across a folder labeled, “Visitors in Galleries,” and discovered that these visitors were in galleries for an exhibition for which we had no visual record

October 17, 2014 | Collection & Exhibitions, Library and Archives

Have a Cow, Man

Posted by Jennifer Tobias, Librarian, Reader Services

Recently I explored a collection of mail art held by the MoMA Library and put together a small show titled Analog Network: Mail Art, 1960–1999. It’s on view in the Education and Research Building through January 5.

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 26, 2014 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions

Leonora Carrington’s House of Fear

Posted by Cameron Foote, 12-Month Modern Women's Fund Intern

Installation view of Artist/Novelist, The Museum of Modern Art, January 8–March 31, 2014. Photo: Jennifer Tobias

Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst’s The House of Fear (La Maison de la peur) is currently on view in the mezzanine of MoMA’s Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, as part of the display Artist/Novelist.

March 28, 2012 | Library and Archives

Making Millennium Magazines

Posted by Rachael Morrison, Senior Library Assistant David Senior, Bibliographer, The Museum of Modern Art Library

Installation view of the Millennium Magazines exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, 2012

As we were brainstorming a name for our Library exhibition of contemporary experimental magazines, Millennium Magazines stuck because of its concise alliteration. The name also specifically isolates this recent period of time—post-Y2K—during which these publications have been flourishing despite constant conversations about the end of print culture.

May 16, 2011 | Library and Archives

An Island Observed in Black and White

Posted by May Castleberry, Editor, Contemporary Editions, Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art

Oliver Sacks, Ted Muehling, Abelardo Morell. The Island of Rota. 2010. Photograph by Lauren McAlpin

I have the privilege and challenge of working with artists and other collaborators to produce artist’s books for The Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art. These limited-edition publications are intended to explore the art of the book as they benefit and shed light on MoMA’s research collections.

April 29, 2011 | Collection & Exhibitions

Off the Shelf: Our Poetry Muses

Posted by Emily Schlemowitz, Intern, Department of Publications

The Off the Shelf series explores unique MoMA publications from the Museum Archives.

Right: Cover of A Partridge in a Pear Tree, illustrated by Ben Shahn. Second ed. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1951. Left: Frontispiece from 12 Fables of Aesop, illustrated by Antonio Frasconi; narrated by Glenway Wescott. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1954.

April is National Poetry Month! To celebrate the final days we thought we’d look at MoMA poetry books. MoMA has published a number of books of poetry, from the lyrically illustrated and hand-lettered A Partridge in a Pear Tree (1951), by Ben Shahn, to 12 Fables of Aesop (1954), illustrated by Antonio Frasconi and narrated by Glenway Wescott. One of my favorites is Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes, the delightfully illustrated book of 83 nursery rhymes selected by former MoMA curator James Johnson Sweeney and illustrated by Alexander Calder.

April 25, 2011 | Collection & Exhibitions, Design

Off the Shelf: Design Finds

Posted by Emily Schlemowitz, Intern, Department of Publications

We look back at recent MoMA book recipients of AIGA's design award 50 Books/50 Covers.

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