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I am pleased to announce a special installation at Rockefeller Center celebrating the 75th anniversary of The Museum of Modern Art featuring images from Art in Our Time: A Chronicle of The Museum of Modern Art. There are seven innovatively designed kiosks devoted to the Museum's history, corresponding to chapters from the book edited by Museum Archivist Michelle Elligott and Harriet Bee, and published on the occasion of the Museum's opening and anniversary in November 2005. The reproductions of historical photographs and archival documents underscore the riches to be found in the Museum Archives. A press release describing the installation is attached.
For those of you in the New York
area, Michelle and Harriet will be signing copies of the book
on Tuesday, February 22nd from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the MoMA Design and Book Store
off the main lobby of the 53rd St. entrance of MoMA. I do hope you will get the
chance to view the installation and join us for the book signing to celebrate
the history of the Museum told through the research resources of MoMA.
MOMA
CELEBRATES 75-YEAR ANNIVERSARY WITH A MULTI-MEDIA INSTALLATION ON THE CONCOURSE
AT ROCKEFELLER CENTER
7 a.m.
– 10 p.m. Daily
30
Rockefeller Center Concourse, between 49 and 50 Streets and 5 and 6
Avenues
Free
to the Public
New
York, February 10, 2005 -- On
the occasion of the Museum's 75th anniversary and the opening of its new
building, The Museum of Modern Art presents Art in Our Time: A Chronicle of
The Museum of Modern Art, an innovatively designed, three-dimensional
installation presented in conjunction with MoMA’s recent publication of a book
of the same name. The display,
which is free and open to the public daily, will be on view on the Concourse at
Rockefeller Center from February 13 through 27, 2005.
Seven
freestanding displays present images of MoMA’s buildings and sculpture garden
throughout the last 75 years, from its original home in the Heckscher Building
at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57 Street, to its newly renovated and expanded
building on 53rd Street designed by Yoshio Taniguchi. Included in the presentation are
reproductions of photographs of major exhibitions and important events at the
Museum and the people whose ideas helped shape our understanding of modern
art. Arranged as “chapters” to
coincide with the arrangement of the book, the displays include reproductions of
rarely seen historical photographs and archival documents.
The
history of MoMA is linked to its present with two videos projected onto a 45
foot screen that show a continuous stream of visitors arriving in the Museum’s
lobby and moving through the five floors of galleries in the new Peggy and David
Rockefeller Building. A
26-foot-long, panoramic pinhole camera image of the Museum’s Abby Aldrich
Sculpture Garden and galleries, by Timothy Hursley, anchors the
installation.
The
Art in Our Time installation marks the second occasion in which MoMA has
utilized Rockefeller Center. In
1937, five years after MoMA had relocated from its original West 57
Street location to a townhouse at 11 West 53 Street, MoMA temporarily
moved its offices and galleries to what was then the newest building in
Rockefeller Center to have been completed, 14 West 49 Street. This move was made to accommodate the
construction of a new International Style building by Philip L. Goodwin and
Edward Durell Stone. Works from
MoMA’s rapidly growing collection – and the special exhibition Bauhaus
1919-1928 – were exhibited at Rockefeller Center until MoMA moved into its
new home on West 53 Street in 1939.
Studios Go conceived the installation plan, and the structural
design of the free-standing displays for the installation, incorporating
innovative fabrication techniques and new technologies to create displays that
engage the public while telling the colorful story of MoMA’s
history.
The
Rockefeller Center installation is based on the newly published book Art in
Our Time: A Chronicle of The Museum of Modern Art [Edited by Harriet
Schoenholz Bee and Michelle Elligott
Hardcover,
9.5 x 10.75 in./256pages/556 illustrations (171 in color) ISBN:
0870700014,
$50.00],
a
book of historical photographs and archival documents, many of them never before
published. Documents
include excerpts from letters, invitations, and other historical material that
tell the story of The Museum of Modern Art from its beginnings to the
present. This publication is made
possible by The Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund and is available at the MoMA
Design and Book Store; the MoMA Design Store, Soho; and at www.momastore.org.
To
celebrate the publication of Art in Our Time: A Chronicle of the Museum of
Modern Art, MoMA will host a book-signing at the MoMA Design and Book Store
off the lobby of the Museum on Tuesday, February 22. Michelle Elligott, Museum Archivist
in the Department of Museum Archives, and Harriet Schoenholz Bee, formerly
Editorial Director in the Museum’s Department of Publications will sign copies
of the book from 5:30-6:30 p.m.
For
more information on the Art in Our Time installation at Rockefeller
Center, the public may call 212-632-3975, or visit
www.rockefellercenter.com.
_____________________________
Milan R. Hughston
Chief of
Library & Museum Archives
The Museum
of Modern Art
11 W. 53rd St.
New York, NY 10019
212/708-9409;212/333-1122 (fax)
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