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The Museum of Modern Art is pleased to offer MoMA Audio, consisting of six distinctive audio programs: Special Exhibitions, Modern Voices, Modern Kids, Visual Descriptions, Red Studio Teen Podcast, and Think Modern: Adult and Academic Programs Audio Archive.

Please note: MoMA Audio listening devices are available in the Museum Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.; and Friday, 10:30 a.m.–7:00 p.m. Transcripts are available upon request.

There are several ways to enjoy MoMA Audio:

  1. Come to the Museum and pick up a free player containing all the audio programs. Access the programs in any sequence. (Note: Think Modern programs are not available in the Museum.)
  2. Listen online through our interactive player, which allows you to look at the images as you listen to the programs (Flash 7 plug-in required). Please note: some works do not have images available.
  3. Download the individual MP3 files to your desktop or audio player.
  4. Subscribe to MoMA Audio podcasts and receive new updates automatically. To subscribe, copy and paste the following URL into your podcast subscription software, such as Apple's iTunes (verson 4.9 or later), iPodder, or Odeo.

    http://www.moma.org/visit_moma/podcasts/feed.xml

    Or, you can see a preview and subscribe to the MoMA podcast in iTunes:
    http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=75128758
    (Clicking this link will open the iTunes application.)

After listening to MoMA Audio, we invite you to create your own audio program for your next visit to MoMA.



MoMA Audio: Special Exhibitions provides audio commentary for many special exhibitions on view at the Museum. Available in English only.

  Take your time: Olafur Eliasson
April 20–June 30, 2008
MoMA, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
About the exhibition | Visit the online exhibition

Download video files
 
  Jazz Score
April 16–September 15, 2008
About the exhibition

Listen: Full Program
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  Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
November 21, 2007–July 28, 2008
About the exhibition | Visit the online exhibition

Listen: Modern Voices | Modern Kids
Download
 
  Design and the Elastic Mind
February 24–May 12, 2008
About the exhibition | Visit the online exhibition

Listen: Full Program
Download
 
  Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today
March 2–May 12, 2008
About the exhibition | Visit the online exhibition

Listen: Full Program
Download
 

Download Archived Programs of past Special Exhibitions: 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005

Modern Voices (icon)   MoMA Audio: Modern Voices offers commentaries by dozens of curators, artists, critics, and conservators who share their perspectives on select artworks in the Museum's collection. Available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, and Spanish.

Listen Full Programs:
English | French | German | Italian | Japanese | Korean | Mandarin | Spanish

Download | Download Archived Programs

Modern Kids (icon)   MoMA Audio: Modern Kids offers fun ways for children to explore works of art in the Museum's collection. Available in English only.

Listen: Full Program
Download | Download Archived Programs

Visual Descriptions (icon)   MoMA Audio: Visual Descriptions offers extended visual descriptions of works in the Museum's collection for visitors with visual impairments and those seeking an in-depth looking experience. Available in English only. Visitors are encouraged to listen to corresponding Modern Voices commentaries.

Listen: Full Program
Download | Download Archived Programs

  The Red Studio audio program was developed by MoMA’s Youth Advisory Council (YAC) with the goal of creating dynamic audio for teens, by teens. Artists, visitors, Museum staff, and teens offer different perspectives on works in MoMA's Painting and Sculpture galleries. Available in English only.

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  Think Modern: Adult and Academic Programs Audio Archive offers recordings of artists, scholars, critics, and writers sharing their in-depth knowledge of the Museum's collection, exhibitions, and contemporary issues in lively symposia, readings, and discussions. Available in English only.

Download Archived Programs: 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005

Think Modern is available as an audio podcast, with new updates posted automatically. To subscribe, copy and paste the following URL into your podcast subscription software:

http://www.moma.org/visit_moma/podcasts/feed_thinkmodern.xml

Or, you can see a preview and subscribe to the MoMA podcast in iTunes:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=154098266&s=143441
(Clicking this link will open the iTunes application.)


  Art Radio WPS1.org, the Internet radio station of MoMA's affiliate P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, features an MP3 stream of music, talk, and historical recordings, along with a free on-demand archive of over 500 programs.

Listen to Art Radio WPS1.org live (Flash 7 plug-in required).

MoMA Audio is available free of charge courtesy of Bloomberg.

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MoMA Audio is a collaboration between The Museum of Modern Art and Acoustiguide, Inc.

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Pictured above:
A MoMA visitor listens to curators and artists on
MoMA Audio: Modern Voices. Photo: Deborah Copaken Kogan Photography. Courtesy of Acoustiguide

Children enjoy listening to MoMA Audio: Modern Kids. Photo: Deborah Copaken Kogan Photography. Courtesy of Acoustiguide

A MoMA visitor listens to detailed descriptions of artwork on MoMA Audio: Visual Descriptions. Photo: Courtesy of Zachary Handler

 

 

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