Museum Of Modern Art

Programs: Museum operations - curatorial and curatorial support departments include conservation, education, exhibitions, digital media, publications, library and archives. The museum was founded in 1929 as an educational institution and maintains a vast breadth of educational programming, which increased in the years after the opening of the renovated and expanded main facility in 2004. In fy 2017, almost 4 million children, students, and adults, of all abilities, were served by the education department: 2. 6 million onsite visitors who accessed free interpretative resources including labels and audio guides (offered in nine languages) to support their learning in the galleries; over 1. 4 million who used online educational resources; and nearly 150,000 who participated in programs. The museum continues to make enhancements that facilitate digital access for visitors using their own devices in the museum, including ongoing improvements to the wifi network and the addition of more charging stations within the recently opened espresso bar. Moma's online following continues to flourish, reaching an extensive global audience. The museum's 2016-17 special exhibition schedule showcased a broad range of modern and contemporary art, performance and film. Noteworthy exhibitions , among others, were on view during fy 2017: francis picabia: our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction,kai althoff: and then leave me to the common swifts, robert rauschenberg,tony oursler: imponderable,nan goldin: the ballad of sexual dependency,from the collection: 1960-1969,louise lawler: why pictures now? ,making faces: images of exploitation and empowerment in cinema,the shape of things: photographs from robert b. Menschel,one and one is four: the bauhaus photocollages of josef albers, a revolutionary impulse: the rise of the russian avant-garde, and frank lloyd wright at 150: unpacking the archive

in fy 2017, over 1,500 works were added to this collection, both by donation and by purchase, including the acquisition of several major collections by the museum. In october 2016 moma announced the previously mentioned major gift from the colección patricia phelps de cisneros, which will add more than 100 works of modern art by major artists from latin america to the museum's collection. Also during fy 2017 the museum acquired 42 additional works from the thomas walther collection, strengthening moma's collection of european (and particularly bauhaus-era) photographs from the years between the first and second world wars. A third major collection acquisition by the museum during fy 2017 was a selection of 44 works from the ubs art collection, which focuses on american and european artists of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Other major acquisitions during fy 2017 include 29 drawings and watercolors by thomas schutte from the 1980s, adding to moma's significant collection of the artist's sculptures and prints; lászló moholy-nagy's 1923 em 1(telephone picture), reuniting this work with em 2 and em 3, the remaining two works from this set, which have been in moma's collection since 1971; ian cheng's monumental media work emissaries, a series of live simulations created with the help of a video game engine and recently shown at moma ps1; bruce nauman's 2016 contrapposto studies i through vii, a seven-channel video work recalling the artist's breakthrough video work from the 1960s; and visages villages, a 2017 film by belgian-born filmmaker agnes varda and young french muralist and street photographer jr comprising the film department's first acquisition of a work before its completion and public premiere, pioneering a new strategy for acquiring major new works of film while supporting avant-garde directors.

security, operations, and maintenance of exhibition galleries and art collection.