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November 29, 2010 | Counter Space, Events & Programs

Educator Journal: In the Making—Food & Art

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

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A small portion of student artwork from the Food & Art class

For this Educator Journal, I asked teaching artist Alan Calpe to reflect upon the last seven weeks of his Food & Art class. Working with a diverse group of NYC teens, Alan has been investigating the Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen exhibition and exploring the various cultural and social connotations that artists bring to the table (so to speak) when addressing the idea of food in their work. The class has been up to their elbows in paper maché, and we’re all eagerly awaiting their final food-based projects.

-Calder Zwicky, Associate Educator, Teen and Community Programs

February 3, 2010 | Behind the Scenes

MoMA Offsite: Uncommon Common Objects

Posted by Lida Sunderland, Assistant to Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture

John Baldessari. Goya Series: And. 1997

My coworker Paulina Pobocha’s recent post discussing a new painting acquisition made casual mention of a staggering fact: at any given moment, MoMA is only able to display some 10 to 15 percent of its collection. This is due to limitations of space, plain and simple. Our acquisitions practices are necessarily limited by these same constraints, and though we continue to carefully maintain and build upon our collection, we cannot acquire nearly as many works as we may wish. Despite our frequent gallery rotations, there are inevitably pieces that spend too much time in crates in Queens.

The Museum counteracts this by being a generous lending institution. At present, more than 170 works from the Department of Painting and Sculpture alone are off-site. This number includes both works that are infrequently exhibited and those that visitors may be accustomed to seeing on a more regular basis.

One of the many works currently housed elsewhere is Goya Series: And (1997), an inkjet and synthetic polymer painting on canvas by the artist John Baldessari.

December 4, 2009 | MoMA Stores

MoMA’s Holiday Card Program

Posted by Doug Roche, Public Relations Manager, Retail

A holiday card created by Robert Indiana (from his LOVE screenprint) was popular in the late 1960s.

Every year since 1954, we have introduced a new line of holiday cards created by artists and designers from around the world. MoMA’s holiday card program was initiated by the Museum’s Junior Council affiliate group, which was founded five years earlier as a way to “bring together a group of younger people who have…a desire to see the [arts] fostered soundly and liberally.” (The Junior Council subsequently evolved into MoMA’s Contemporary Arts Council.)

November 26, 2009 |

MoMA Is Thankful

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Turkey Shopping Bag. Roy Lichtenstein. 1964

Roy Lichtenstein. Turkey Shopping Bag. 1964

The hallmark of this all-American holiday—and great for leftovers, too—the turkey was one of Pop art master Roy Lichtenstein’s trademark food images. He created this iconic Turkey Shopping Bag for Ben Birillo’s innovative American Supermarket exhibition at the Bianchini Gallery in 1964, which presented a variety of food-related art displayed alongside actual and plastic food items. Intended as advertisements for the exhibition, the Turkey Shopping Bags were sold for $12 each, along with editions of Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Can on Shopping Bag. The shopping bags were among the exhibition’s most popular items, and many visitors used them to carry their other purchases from the exhibition.

Now in MoMA’s collection, this screenprint is one of the many unique works that MoMA has been able to acquire through the incredible support of our trustees, members and donors, and other generous and enthusiastic friends. Thank you all for your generosity over the past year. I wish you a very safe and happy Thanksgiving holiday.

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