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July 15, 2015 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions

Happy (Belated) Birthday to Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit

Posted by Whitney Rose Graham, Modern Women's Fund 12-Month Intern, Department of Drawings and Prints

Installation view of Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 17–September 7, 2015. © 2015 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Thomas Griesel

Two weeks ago, while the United States was marking its 239th birthday, The Museum of Modern Art was celebrating the 51st birthday of Yoko Ono’s iconic artist’s book Grapefruit (1964), a compendium of her instruction-based artwork. The book holds special significance for the Museum, as it was one of the first works by Ono acquired by MoMA, and it is currently on view in the exhibition Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971.

July 8, 2015 | Collection & Exhibitions, Design

“If Not Museums, Then Where?” Adding Ancient Algorithms and New Biological Futures to MoMA’s Collection

Posted by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design Michelle Millar Fisher, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design

Revital Cohen (Israeli, b. 1981), Tuur van Balen (Belgian, b. 1981). Still from Kingyo Kingdom. 2013. HD digital video, 19:23 min. Gift of the designers

Like any artifact of culture, design objects are often much more than the sum of their parts. Their forms and materials crystallize thought processes, tools, desires, and imagined futures, both near and far. Indeed, a group of design works that were added to MoMA’s collection in early June far transcend their materials—and in doing so, help us shape individual and collective perspectives on the changing world around us all.

July 2, 2015 | Behind the Scenes, Collection & Exhibitions

Honeybees in the Sculpture Garden: Installing Pierre Huyghe’s Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt)

Posted by Margaret Ewing, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture

The crated sculpture is unloaded from the truck on West 54 Street. Photo: Margaret Ewing

This summer MoMA’s Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden is home to tens of thousands of Italian honeybees, as part of a recently acquired sculpture by French artist Pierre Huyghe (b. 1962). Huyghe’s Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt) [Reclining female nude] (2012) incorporates a living bee colony that stands in for the head of a figure cast from a bronze sculpture by the Swiss artist Max Weber (1897–1982).

June 25, 2015 | Collection & Exhibitions, Design

Having a Wonderful Time at the Bauhaus Exhibition in Weimar, 1923

Posted by Pamela Popeson, Department Preparator, Department of Architecture and Design

Paul Klee. Bauhaus Ausstellung Weimar Juli–Sept, 1923, Karte 5. 1923. Lithograph, 3 15/16 x 5 7/8 ” (10 × 15 cm). Committee on Architecture and Design Funds. Photo: John Wronn

When friends went off on a summer vacation adventure and I heard myself request that they be sure to post some pictures on Instagram, I wondered what happened to “send postcards?” It really was not so very long ago when I could open my mailbox (my letter box) and regularly find a picture postcard from someone gone halfway around the world—or even just across town—with a handwritten personal note or a “having a wonderful time wish you were here,” or some artist post cards with wonderful, artfully collaged imagery from a mail art–artist friend. Now, it’s a rarity.

June 24, 2015 | Collection & Exhibitions

All In: Gilbert & George’s Art for All

Posted by Heidi Hirschl, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings and Prints

From the onset of Gilbert & George’s career, when they described themselves as “baby artists,” the phrase “Art for All” has served as their motto or mission statement. The artists have made this mantra part of the ideological grounding of their work, and have even included these three words as part of their mailing address and within all of their correspondence. The current exhibition Gilbert & George: The Early Years epitomizes this underlying philosophy by highlighting MoMA’s collection holdings of the artists’ work from the initial period of their practice. Perhaps best known for their brilliantly-colored, wall-sized Pictures of later years, Gilbert & George initially worked with quite a different palette and varied sense of scale, which is on display in this exhibition.

June 19, 2015 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions, Events & Programs

An event to see the sky through: YOKO ONO MORNING PEACE 2015

Posted by Whitney Rose Graham, Modern Women's Fund 12-Month Intern, Department of Drawings and Prints

Yoko Ono. YOKO ONO MORNING PEACE 2015. Spring 2015. Ink on paper; drawing for the event

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Yoko Ono’s 1965 performance of Morning Piece in New York City. To commemorate Morning Piece and in conjunction with Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971</a>, MoMA and PopRally have organized YOKO ONO MORNING PEACE 2015, a global sunrise celebration on the summer solstice, Sunday, June 21.

June 18, 2015 | Collection & Exhibitions, Learning and Engagement

Moving Through the Migration Series: An Interview with Kerry Downey and Shellyne Rodriguez

Posted by Calder Zwicky, Assistant Director, Teen and Community Partnerships

Participants from Elders Share the Arts (ESTA) viewing the exhibition One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North

How does artwork created within a specific cultural and political context connect with viewers across multiple generations and disparate locations? How can an institution remain relevant to contemporary audiences while maintaining a commitment to preserving and championing artwork from past generations? Shellyne Rodriguez and Kerry Downey are two longtime teaching artists working with MoMA’s Community and Access Programs who, in addition to their work across a wide range of educational groups, both run the majority of the Museum’s Community Partnerships

June 17, 2015 | Collection & Exhibitions, Design

MoMA Acquires the Rainbow Flag

Posted by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design Michelle Millar Fisher, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design

The Rainbow Flag waving in the wind at San Francisco’s Castro District. Photo: Benson Kua. Image used through Wikimedia Commons

We’re thrilled to announce that MoMA has acquired the iconic Rainbow Flag into its design collection, where it joins similarly universal symbols such as the @ symbol, the Creative Commons logo, and the recycling symbol. Artist Gilbert Baker created the Rainbow Flag in 1978 in San Francisco. Just a few days ago, he met Michelle Millar Fisher in MoMA’s offices to record an interview for the MoMA Archives, part of which is transcribed here.

June 11, 2015 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions

Amsterdam to NYC: The Tuileries Reinstalled

Posted by Tessa Ferreyros, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings and Prints

The histories behind the works in the Museum’s collection are often as engaging as the art itself. We don’t always get to share these stories, but through our collection-based exhibitions we have the opportunity to highlight the previous lives of works on view. One that I was able to see installed for the first time since it formally entered the collection is Gilbert & George’s The Tuileries (1974), which is currently on view in the exhibition Gilbert & George: The Early Years.

June 9, 2015 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions

Yoko Ono at MoMA: An Exhibition 50 Years in the Making

Posted by Whitney Rose Graham, Modern Women's Fund 12-Month Intern, Department of Drawings and Prints

Yoko Ono at The Museum of Modern Art. 2015. Photograph by Kishin Shinoyama. Courtesy Lenono Photo Archive, New York. © 2015 Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono at The Museum of Modern Art’s Sculpture Garden. 2015. Photograph by Kishin Shinoyama. Courtesy Lenono Photo Archive, New York. © Yoko Ono 2015

Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971 heralds Ono’s first official solo exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art. However, it is not her first interaction with the Museum. Ono’s engagement with MoMA dates to her arrival onto the New York art scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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