MoMA Archives Collection Materials | Photo courtesy of Rachel Garbade, MoMA Archives
Date & Time: Thursday, June 27th at 5:45PM (Tour begins promptly at 6:00PM)
Duration: ~1 hr and 30 min.
Capacity: 20
Cost: Free! (ART Members only)
Location: MoMA Archives Reading Room (enter at 4 W 54th St entrance)
Join us for a tour of recently processed archives at The Museum of Modern Art with two processing archivists. Meagan Connolly, Associate Archivist, and Rachel Garbade, Assistant Archivist, will each provide overviews of collections and items they have processed in the last two years. Collections include the recently processed Just Above Midtown Archive, Political Art Documentation/Distribution Archive (PAD/D), Trisha Brown Notebooks and Papers, MoMA Retail, Publications, and Other Sales Catalogs, Beaumont Newhall Papers, and more. Meagan is responsible for processing larger collections added to the MoMA Archives, as well as collections that occasionally need reprocessing. Rachel is responsible for processing various backlog projects, including smaller collections and accretions to existing collections. The presentation and discussion will center around the differences in processing workflows, the implementation of new and reprocessed materials into existing collections, and highlighting the interesting and unexpected materials found along the way.
This is an in-person event limited to 20 A.R.T. Members only. Registration is non-transferable. Please note that you MUST reserve a ticket in advance online in order to attend this event.
In the occasion that the event is sold out, we highly recommend joining the waitlist. An ART staff member will reach out to you if a spot becomes available. Unless you've been given permission, please do not show up at the event without registering.
About
The Museum of Modern Art Archives is an internationally recognized research center for modern and contemporary art. The Archives collects, preserves, and makes accessible nearly 90 years’ worth of the Museum’s historical records, 40 years’ worth of MoMA PS1 records, and other primary source documents concerning art and cultural history in the 20th and 21st centuries, including private archives and papers of artists, galleries, dealers, art historians, critics, and others. The holdings also include an extensive Photographic Archive and interviews conducted as part of the Archives Oral History Program. An essential resource for scholars, students, curators, conservators, writers, journalists, artists, and Museum staff, the Archives plays a crucial role in fulfilling MoMA’s mission as an educational institution.
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