Coming from the Bronx and living a regular public school kid’s life, I didn’t realize the opportunities around me. I had witnessed my brother for years get cool things off Craigslist. I mean, he even bought a car. I was hungry to enter the art world. I wanted to dip my feet into anything I could.

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MoMA Teens Take Over Inside/Out: Nyssa Frank + The Living Gallery
MoMA Teens Take Over Inside/Out: Karni Krikoryan, Artist
Karni Krikoryan is an artist born in Istanbul and currently living in the United Kingdom. She is also my aunt. Starting only at age five, she began creating art. “I had something to say about everything around me. So my eyes became my words,” is how she explains her early interest.
MoMA Teens Take Over Inside/Out: Capturing the Mona Lisa…Without Ever Seeing It
People shuffle around the gallery next to priceless pieces of art. Why are they here? Phones brought them here. The motive in going to a museum nowadays has evolved. The camera not only captures the piece of art, but also the wandering aesthete who clutches the camera at an arm’s length away from his or her face.
MoMA Teens Take Over Inside/Out: A Collection of Poems + Poets

The inspiration for at least three poems: Jackson Pollock. Number 1A, 1948. 1948. Oil and enamel paint on canvas, 68″ x 8′ 8″ (172.7 x 264.2 cm). Purchase. © 2014 Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
“Hi! So we’re from a program at MoMA called the Cross-Museum Collective and we’ve been asking people to write spontaneous poems about the piece of artwork that they’re currently looking at for the MoMA blog. Would you want to write one for us?”
MoMA Teens Take Over Inside/Out: Young New York Art, a Survey
Before I moved to New York, I was fortunate enough to take a studio art class in my middle school in my home country of New Zealand. During that class, we analyzed Pop art of the 1960s by looking at small reproductions of famous paintings from the period.
MoMA Teens Take Over Inside/Out: Anonymous Faces
Approximately 3.5 million people from all over the world visit the MoMA each year. But who are these people? They all seem like anonymous faces in a gallery, to whom we pay little notice. But just like ourselves, each one of them has their own, unique story.
MoMA Teens Take Over Inside/Out: Petra Collins—Text + Messages

Installation view of Petra Collins: Discharge, Capricious 88, 28 February 28–April 27, 2014. Photo by Auréole Ribes
Your alarm doesn’t wake you up on time and you have to find the perfect outfit that no one will judge. Your winged eyeliner has to be symmetrical. You see a girl’s Ask.fm profile, where someone is anonymously calling her a slut because there’s a photo online of her making out with someone. Then you check your Facebook to see if you got any more likes on your profile picture.
MoMA Teens Take Over Inside/Out: LJ Hartman + The Museum of Modern Security

The author, center, contemplating his next move as an international art thief during his MoMA Security tour
As a student who had visited MoMA many times before, I felt confident that everything I was about to witness during the Cross-Museum Collective’s tour of MoMA’s security system, I probably already knew. To my pleasant surprise, I couldn’t have been more wrong.
MoMA Teens Take Over Inside/Out: Overheard @ MoMA

“This one here is the money maker”: Vincent van Gogh. The Starry Night. 1889. Oil on canvas, 29 x 36 1/4″ (73.7 x 92.1 cm). Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest
At an international art center like MoMA, thousands of people walk through the doors on a weekly basis. Residents of New York, residents of Taiwan, Italy, South Africa, Germany, and Brazil. Children, their grandparents, moms, dads, aunts, and whoever else have traveled to the Museum in order to be inside of this modern art hub.
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