Prints and Illustrated Books online collection: highlights recent acquisitions selected works
From an initial gift of eight prints and one
drawing, The Museum of Modern Art's collection has grown to include
150,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural
models and drawings, and design objects. MoMA also owns some 22,000
films, videos, and media works, as well as film stills, scripts, posters
and historical documents. The Museum's Library contains 300,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, and the Museum Archives holds approximately 2,500 linear feet of historical documentation and a photographic archive of tens of thousands of photographs, including installation views of exhibitions and images of the Museum's building and grounds.
Please note: Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night is currently on view at MoMA in the special exhibition, Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night, from September 21, 2008, to January 5, 2009. The painting will not be on view at MoMA as of January 6th, 2009, as the exhibition travels to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, where it will be on view from February 13 to June 7, 2009. The painting returns to MoMA once again in late June, 2009.
Matters in Media Art:
Collaborating Toward the Care of Time-Based Media
Curators, conservators, registrars, and media
technical managers from New Art Trust, MoMA, the San Francisco Museum of Art, and Tate have formed a
consortium to establish effective practice guidelines for care of time-based
media works of art (for example, video, slide, film, audio, and computer-based installations).
