The Museum of Modern Art Library

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Assembling zines with Pau Wau Publications for their recent talk in the MoMA garden.

We’ll be having similar fun with zine maker, librarian, and organizer Barbara Calderón on Wednesday, August 30 at 3pm. Details here.

(Image appropriated from Pau Wau’s Instagram). -jt

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3 Dot Zine founder Devin N. Morris in conversation with MoMA Library staff member Sarah Hamerman in the MoMA garden today, launching the three-part series Zines: Collaborations and Publications in NYC.

Next up:  Laszlo Konrath and Brian Paul Lamotte of  Pau Wau Publications on August 16 and Barbara Calderón of Colectiva Cosmica. -jt

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Pride Pop-up mini book show in the MoMA Library Reading 📖 room. These images of Dyke: A quarterly magazine and Keith Haring's first little zines from 1981-1982. #pride2017🌈

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The MoMA Library welcomes the new Instagram account momacontemporaryeditions, which keeps you up to date on this innovative artists’ books publishing program. -jt

Image: Rosângela Rennó (b. 1962, Belo Horizonte). Tudo sobre rodas (Everything on wheels). 2016. Detail of “Photomap” for The Valise

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"This home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright represents the finest of contemporary architecture. Just as the Futuramic Oldsmobile represents the farthest advancement in automotive design.”

The MoMA Library’s current show, Frank Lloyd Wright: Publishing the Self, examines the architect’s career-long engagement with print media. As this example shows, Wright made little distinction between editorial content and advertising.

The show complements the major retrospective exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive. -jt

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For families spread out across the country, videos and video chats have become a meaningful way to share a baby’s first steps, a birthday party or a loved one blowing a kiss.

But for people in prison, rules limiting access to the Internet and cameras can make sharing these moments difficult. In Colorado Springs, an artist came up with a creative solution.

Like many proud parents, Nicole Garrens captured her son Zander’s first steps on her cellphone. She wanted to share the video with her husband, Roy, but he recently went to prison in Texas.

While almost anyone with a smartphone can send or receive short videos these days, prisoners still have little access to technology. So Garrens went looking online for a creative solution. She found flipbooked.com, a small company that turns short videos into flipbooks.

Flipbooks Help Prisoners Stay Connected To Their Loved Ones

GIF: Noel Black for NPR

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Charlie Chaplin floating in space! From a Czech magazine Zijeme, designed by Ladislav Sutnar.

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Readers by Kandis Williams & CASSANDRA Press

Artist statement:

Part of a performance and collage based practice, artist Kandis Williams creates 'Readers' of scanned, copied, pasted and reproduced texts, and images. The Readers have informed the last years of Kandis Williams' aesthetic practice and research -the evolution of a long use of xerox toner as a medium and material. The Readers are text based collages that illustrate thematic bouts of research and struggle with philosophical and historical frameworks around social and political phenomenon that run concurrent to William's image making practice. Chiefly turned on by the re-arrangement and liquidation of photographic contents, Williams willfully subverts the finality and hermetic nature inherent to the image itself (even the collaged image) offering readers as a secondary or supplemental format for a body of visual or performative expressions. The Readers bind texts around her research to narrativize a stream of propositions found around race, class, gender and nationalism in the contemporary world; tracing a subjectivity molded into and out of the socio-cultural and legal expressions of these constructs.

In 2016, CASSANDRA Press was founded as a publishing project by Taylor Doran, Kandis Williams, and Jordan Nassar making lo-fi activist and academic texts, flyers, posters, pamphlets and readers, in hopes of spreading ideas and sharing perspectives, promoting dialogue, and inspiring further and wider-spread political and social activism.The Readers are just one facet of CASSANDRA founded by Williams, Doran, and Nassar who all produce and curate both as a team and independently of each other. CASSANDRA offers a hydra head approach to the content and dissemination of our publications, dedicated to incorporating our practices as artists into our means of discourse, to self-publishing, re-publishing, re-mix-and-publishing, and to telling the truth.

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Registration form for International Dialogue of Experimental Architecture, June 1966. "All Europe's Creative Nuts Will be There."

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Dramatic endpapers from Vladimir Mayakovsky. Kino; st︠s︡enarii, statʹi, pisʹma, rechi, stikhi (Film: Scenarios, Articles, Letters, Speeches, Poems). Moscow:  Goskinoizdat, 1940. -jt

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The front of an invitation card  by Pati Hill, an artist that often made photocopies of objects, from a 1978 exhibition entitled ”Common Alphabet #1″ at Franklin Furnace in NYC. 

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Ready, set, edit! Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at MoMA gets underway. -jt

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Looking for artists to work on at the Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, either at MoMA or elsewhere? Here are some lists to delve into for articles to create, enhance, or add references to:

Black Lunch Table Women in Red WikiProject Women Artists

Through a colleague and the wonders of interlibrary loan, today I learned about elusive artist and MoMA staff member Eloise Bishop. She, too, could use an entry. -jt

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What’s your subject for this year’s Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thons?

This Saturday at MoMA, I’ll be working on Elodie Courter, who organized MoMA’s traveling exhibitions in the 1930s and 1940s. She and her team helped to inform a worldwide interest in modern art, architecture, and design.

Here she is with Elements of Design, an exhibition of 24 bold panels that could be sent through the mail and installed virtually anywhere.

So pack up your laptop, travel on over, and install yourself at the Edit-a-thon for hands-on training as well as guidance from experienced editors. We’ll kick off with a panel discussion about activism, have trainings and breakout sessions throughout the day, and then end with cake and a toast. Child care, food, and caffeine provided. RSVP here. -jt

Photo: Elodie Courter, Director, Department of Circulating Exhibitions, with panels from the teaching portfolio Elements of Design, c. 1945. Photographic Archive. MoMA Archives            

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Ray Johnson made invitations cards for fake exhibitions, often with some punning or elaborate word associations. Here Robin Gallery was the sidekick of the Batman Gallery in SF. Ray was in Gangbang - Batman's second show - a big group show which also included Bruce Conner, Jay De Feo, George Herms and Joan Brown. (at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art)

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new to MoMA Library: the notecard catalog to Lucy Lippard's exhibition c. 7,500, a traveling show from 1973-1974 that featured conceptual works by women artists (at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art)

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Apropos of the current Library exhibition Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Quotations of Rosa Louise Parks and Church Fans, this interactive map visualizes racially-oriented lynchings and riots from 1835-1964. The project continues the efforts of Monroe Nathan Work (1866-1945) to document lynchings in the U.S. -jt