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April 30, 2010 | Do You Know Your MoMA?

Do You Know Your MoMA? 04/30/2010

Posted by James Vickers, Volunteer Program Assistant, Visitor Services

How well do you know your MoMA? Above are images of works from the MoMA collection that are currently on view in the Architecture and Design Galleries. If you think you can identify the artist and title of each work, please submit your answers by leaving a comment on this post. We’ll provide the answers—along with some information about each work—next Friday, along with the next Do You Know Your MoMA? challenge.

ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK’S CHALLENGE:

Well, I said I’d try to stump you last week, and stump you I did. Many of you were able to correctly identify the first two works, but the third proved to be the most challenging, and we don’t have a winner this week. Honorable mention to Candice White for identifying Constantin Brancusi as the artist, but alas, it is Young Bird, not Blond Negress, II, in the photo clue.

Clues for the Do You Know Your MoMA? challenge, 4/23/10

1 . Pablo Picasso. Girl Before a Mirror. March 1932

2. Frida Kahlo. Fulang-Chang and I. 1937 (assembled after 1939)

3. Constantin Brancusi. Young Bird. 1933

April 29, 2010 | Behind the Scenes

MoMA Offsite: European Stay-cation?

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

Chris Ofili. Prince amongst Thieves. 1999

Much of the dust—er, ash—has settled in Europe, and those marooned there by Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano are trickling back home. Nonetheless, when airspace was finally cleared mid–last week, there were reports of half-empty planes returning from some of the most afflicted cities, such as Zurich and London. I know a handful of people whose airlines will not honor tickets at their original prices until April 29 or later, so perhaps this in part explains the sparsely populated jets. But one must also consider the Europeans who may have canceled trips and vacations to the States completely. How many of those people will therefore miss a planned trip to MoMA, I wonder?!? It is with this concern in mind that I drafted this MoMA Offsite entry. Perhaps it’s too rash to predict for Europe the trend of the “stay-cation” (which swept our nation last year due to factors altogether different, of course), but nonetheless I’d like our members, friends, and supporters there to know that many MoMA works are on view in Europe at this time.

April 26, 2010 | Behind the Scenes, Viewpoints

Art/Work: MoMA’s Creative Minds: Claire Corey

Posted by Nora Lawrence, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture

Left: Claire Ellen Corey. Cove. 2009. Archival inkjet on canvas. © Claire Ellen Corey. Right: Claude Monet. Water Lilies. 1914-26. Oil on canvas, three panels, each 6′ 6 3/4″ x 13′ 11 1/4″ (200 x 424.8 cm), overall 6′ 6 3/4″ x 41′ 10 3/8″ (200 x 1276 cm). The Museum of Modern Art. Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund

Many of MoMA’s employees aren’t just guardians of the Museum’s collection: they are artists in their own right, and have found inspiration for their own work through their engagement with artwork shown at MoMA. Our jobs do sometimes force us to hurry by breathtaking works, with no time to let their power wash over us. But at other moments—whether retouching a paint job, placing a wall label, or installing a work of art—we find ourselves alone, in empty galleries, confronted with some of the greatest works of art made in the last century. This new series of blog posts will focus on a few of MoMA’s many employee/artists, and will address the ways in which they have incorporated their daily work experiences into their own artistic processes.

As Production Manager in the Museum’s department of graphic design, Claire Ellen Corey produces various components of many of MoMA’s exhibitions, installations, and marketing campaigns. Outside of her duties at MoMA, she’s also a painter, a practice that has been informed time and again by all she has learned within the Museum. In fact, Corey combines techniques of painting and the tools of graphic design to create her multilayered paintings, ultimately producing her final image on an ink-jet printer.

April 23, 2010 | Do You Know Your MoMA?

Do You Know Your MoMA? 04/23/2010

Posted by James Vickers, Volunteer Program Assistant, Visitor Services

Clues for the Do You Know Your MoMA? challenge, 4/23/10

How well do you know your MoMA? To the left are images of works from the MoMA collection that are currently on view in the galleries. If you think you can identify the artist, title, and location of each work, please submit your answers by leaving a comment on this post. We’ll provide the answers—along with some information about each work—next Friday, along with the next Do You Know Your MoMA? challenge.

ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK’S CHALLENGE: Too elementary for you? Next week I’ll really try to stump you. Congratulations to Jonathan Janov and Laura Rosa, who tied for first place in last week’s post. Doris Bremm also correctly identified all six works, but alas, she spelled Joan Miró’s first name wrong.

Clues for the Do You Know Your MoMA? challenge, 4/16/10

1. Pablo Picasso. Three Musicians. 1921.
2. Gerald Murphy. Wasp and Pear. 1929
3. René Magritte. The Portrait. 1935
4. Yves Tanguy. The Furniture of Time. 1939
5. Joan Miró. Bather. October 1932
6. Rufino Tamayo. Animals. 1941

April 16, 2010 | Do You Know Your MoMA?

Do You Know Your MoMA? 04/16/2010

Posted by James Vickers, Volunteer Program Assistant, Visitor Services

How well do you know your MoMA? Above are images of works from the MoMA collection that are currently on view in the galleries. If you think you can identify the artist, title, and location of each work, please submit your answers by leaving a comment on this post. We’ll provide the answers—along with some information about each work—next Friday, along with the next Do You Know Your MoMA? challenge.

ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK’S CHALLENGE:

April 14, 2010 | Behind the Scenes

MoMA Offsite: Where Did It Go?

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

Vincent van Gogh. The Starry Night. 1889

In this column I have often discussed the efforts made by the Department of Painting and Sculpture to circulate works in our collection galleries as frequently as we can manage, thereby showing the broadest possible range of our extensive holdings. All of our works are historically significant in their own way; still, we do recognize that there are dedicated audiences for certain landmark acquisitions made by the Museum, and so there are a few works that remain on view indefinitely. Les Demoiselles D’Avignon (1907) by Pablo Picasso, The Starry Night (1889) by Vincent van Gogh, and Salvador Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory (1931) certainly all fall into this category.

April 9, 2010 | Do You Know Your MoMA?

Do You Know Your MoMA? 04/09/2010

Posted by James Vickers, Volunteer Program Assistant, Visitor Services

How well do you know your MoMA? Above are images of works from the MoMA collection that are currently on view in the galleries. If you think you can identify the artist, title, and location of each work, please submit your answers by leaving a comment on this post. We’ll provide the answers—along with some information about each work—next Friday, along with the next Do You Know Your MoMA? challenge.

ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK’S CHALLENGE:

April 2, 2010 | Do You Know Your MoMA?

Do You Know Your MoMA? 04/02/2010

Posted by James Vickers, Volunteer Program Assistant, Visitor Services

How well do you know your MoMA? Above are images of works from the MoMA collection that are currently on view in the galleries. If you think you can identify the artist, title, and location of each work, please submit your answers by leaving a comment on this post. We’ll provide the answers—along with some information about each work—next Friday, along with the next Do You Know Your MoMA? challenge.

ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK’S CHALLENGE:

March 26, 2010 | Do You Know Your MoMA?

Do You Know Your MoMA? 3/26/2010

Posted by James Vickers, Volunteer Program Assistant, Visitor Services

How well do you know your MoMA? Above are images of works from the MoMA collection that are currently on view in the galleries. If you think you can identify the artist, title, and location of each work, please submit your answers by leaving a comment on this post. We’ll provide the answers—along with some information about each work—next Friday, along with the next Do You Know Your MoMA? challenge.

ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK’S CHALLENGE:

March 24, 2010 | Behind the Scenes, Design

@ in Context: Criteria for an Acquisition

Posted by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design

Screenshot of “@ at MoMA” post

Our recent acquisition of the @ symbol has challenged what most people think of as a typical object that a Museum acquires. We thought it best to let you in on our process—how we think about shaping our collection here at MoMA. As you know, museums are defined by their collections. Each collection has a unique point of view that is carefully shaped by its curators, who are always mindful of historical precedents as they look ahead to future developments. When it comes to contemporary design, MoMA’s collection seeks to remain on the cusp of innovation and to support the emerging talents, ideas, and concepts that will become tomorrow’s designed environment.

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