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June 15, 2016 | Collection & Exhibitions

MoMA Collects: New Photography 2015, Part 2

Posted by Kristen Gaylord, Beaumont & Nancy Newhall Curatorial Fellow, Department of Photography

DIS. Positive Ambiguity (beard, lectern, teleprompter, wind machine, confidence). 2015. Installation view, Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015, The Museum of Modern Art, November 7, 2015–March 20, 2016. © 2016 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Thomas Griesel

In January I wrote about five artists who had come into MoMA’s collection through Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015, the most recent iteration of the New Photography series, which has a long history of bringing new works by young artists into the Museum.

March 10, 2016 | Collection & Exhibitions

The Newsstand Community at MoMA

Posted by Kristen Gaylord, Beaumont & Nancy Newhall Curatorial Fellow, Department of Photography

From the earliest conversations about recreating The Newsstand at The Museum of Modern Art in Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015, artist Lele Saveri was insistent that the physical work alone was not enough.

January 28, 2016 | Behind the Scenes, Collection & Exhibitions

A Day-by-Day Look at Katharina Gaenssler’s Bauhaus Staircase photo-mural

Posted by Kristen Gaylord, Beaumont & Nancy Newhall Curatorial Fellow, Department of Photography

For Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015, MoMA commissioned Katharina Gaenssler to create a photo-mural right outside the exhibition galleries on the third-floor platform of the Museum’s Bauhaus Staircase, which is inspired by Walter Gropius’s famous staircase in the Bauhaus building in Dessau, Germany. Gaenssler photographed that stairway, as well as two works that reference it, both in MoMA’s collection: Bauhaus Stairway (1932) by Oskar Schlemmer and Bauhaus Stairway (1988) by Roy Lichtenstein. She collaged the resulting thousands of pictures together in an installation that explores the relationship between MoMA and the influential modernist school, tracing the history of the Bauhaus’s monumental contribution to the history of art and architecture through works of imitation and homage. In the process, she adds a new artwork to this lineage.

January 8, 2016 | Collection & Exhibitions

New Photography and MoMA’s Collection, Part 1

Posted by Kristen Gaylord, Beaumont & Nancy Newhall Curatorial Fellow, Department of Photography

The New Photography exhibition series—which Quentin Bajac, The Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography, has called “a window on the Museum’s approach to photography”—has been an influential vehicle for acquisitions for three decades.

November 17, 2015 | Behind the Scenes, Collection & Exhibitions

Sculptures, Videos, and Newsstands: Installing Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015

Posted by Kristen Gaylord, Beaumont & Nancy Newhall Curatorial Fellow, Department of Photography

Installing Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015. Photo: Kristen Gaylord

At one point during the installation of Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015, one of the MoMA art handlers asked, “Where are all the photos?” It’s a valid question. For an exhibition of photography, Ocean of Images contains fewer framed pictures than one would expect.