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unusual facts about the Museum of Modern Art



Adam Bly

Together with Paola Antonelli he co-founded a monthly gathering of scientists, architects, and designers that laid the foundation for Design and the Elastic Mind, an exhibition about science and design at The Museum of Modern Art.

Dolores Dembus Bittleman

Bittleman's work includes fiber and silk tapestries that have featured in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Lausanne International Tapestry Biennial and the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York.

Jedd Garet

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the The Museum of Modern Art (New York City), the Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix, Arizona), the Tate Gallery (London) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City) are among the public collections holding works by Jedd Garet.

John Kleckner

His work is featured in several collections including the Dakis Joannou Collection, the Saatchi Gallery and The Judith Rothschild Foundation Drawings Collection at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City .

Joseph Glasco

Joseph Glasco (1925 – May 31, 1996) was an American Abstract Expressionist painter and sculptor, best known for being at one time the youngest artist represented in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art.

Matt Mullican

Mullican's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally since the early 1970s at venues including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany, the National Galerie, Berlin, Germany, the Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Netherlands, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, and The Museum of Modern Art, NY.

Quick Gun Murugun

Quick Gun Murugan has been exhibited at the London Film Festival, the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, the New York Asian Film Festival and in The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMa).

Sam Francis

Paintings by Sam Francis can be found in international museum collections including those of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Kunstmuseum Basel, the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, and the Centre Pompidou-Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris

The Nostalgia of the Infinite

It has been speculated by the Museum of Modern Art in New York that it was created from 1912 to 1913 while the Annenberg School for Communication suggests 1913-14.


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Art criticism

After visiting the studios of several Argentine artists in the company of the young Director of the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires Rafael Squirru, Malraux declared the new vanguard to lie in Argentina's new artistic movements.

Endre Szász

He had several exhibitions all over the world, including the Museum of Modern Art (Mexico City), Auschwitz Museum (Poland), the Hungarian National Gallery (Budapest), and also exhibited in Madrid, Copenhagen, Brussels, Berlin, Rome, Oslo, Johannesburg, New Orleans, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Budapest, Amman (Jordan) and Tokyo.

Fred Worden

His work has been screened at The Museum of Modern Art, in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, The Centre Pompidou, in Paris, The Pacific Film Archive, The New York Film Festival, The London Film Festival, The Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Toronto Film Festival, and The Hong Kong International Film Festival.

Gene Beery

Working as a guard at the Museum of Modern Art he was befriended by James Rosenquist and Sol LeWitt, his Hester Street neighbor.

Gustavo Romano

He has also had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, the Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Tamayo Museum, Mexico DF, among others.

José Gómez-Sicre

In 1944, he served as an advisor to Alfred H. Barr, Jr., of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, putting together an exhibition of Cuban paintings that traveled across the United States for the next two years.

Lynda Caspe

Caspe is collected by Schering-Plough, John Hightower, former director of the Museum of Modern Art, The Derfner Judaica Museum and the Art Collection, and the National Gallery of Australia.

Marcelo Bonevardi

Bonevardi's work has been collected by many leading North American and Latin American museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City; the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires; the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade in São Paulo; and the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City.

Meshes of the Afternoon

In 2010, the Museum of Modern Art opened an exhibit that dealt with Deren's influence on three experimental filmmakers: Barbara Hammer, Su Friedrich, and Carolee Schneemann as part of a year-long retrospective on representation of women at the MoMA.

Milt Jackson at the Museum of Modern Art

Milt Jackson at the Museum of Modern Art is a live album by vibraphonist Milt Jackson recorded in 1965 at the Museum of Modern Art and released on the Limelight label.

Neotu Gallery

2004 - "The Design Encyclopedia" - Mel Byars - Publisher Laurence King Publishing & The Museum of Modern Art - London & New York - 2004 - ISBN 0-87070-012-X

Paola Antonelli

She has for a number of years been attempting to obtain a Boeing 747 for inclusion into the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

Reginald H. Neal

Works by Neal are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Princeton University, New Jersey; The Figge Art Museum, Illinois; and Brigham Young University, Utah.

Rosa Tavarez

Tavarez's artworks are shown at museums, art galleries and permanent collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in Santo Domingo, Casa de Las Americas in Havana, Cuba, The Housatonic Museum of Art in Connecticut, the Gallery of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC, and the Museums of Modern Art in London, Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela.

Simon Lamunière

He also designs and curates the website of the documenta X directed by Catherine David in Kassel in 1996 and contributes to the creation of the Museum of Modern Art (Mudam) website in Luxembourg with Claude Closky artist, Jean-Charles Massera writer and art critic and Benjamin Weil, curator.

Ursula Merchant

In 1967 Ursula met and briefly lived with Diane Arbus whilst in New York, after attending the "New Documents" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.

Zhang Dali

He has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, International Center for Photography in New York, Les Rencontres d'Arles festival in France (2010), 18Gallery in Shanghai, Magda Danysz Gallery in Paris, Courtyard Gallery in Beijing, Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, the 2006 Gwangju Biennale in Korea and Pékin Fine Arts in Beijing.