Museum of Modern Art: Misc

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after acquiring Movado in 1983, Gedalio Grinberg heavily promoted the modernistic "Museum Watch", based on a design by Nathan George Horwitt included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art?
the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society's headquarters building was one of only two U.S. skyscrapers featured at the 1932 International style exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art?
Mildred Constantine organized the 1968 exhibition Word and Image of 300 posters at the Museum of Modern Art called "so handsome that for a minute you wonder why billboards are disfigurements"?
Marcelo Piñeyro's second film, Wild Horses, was the second-highest-attended film in Argentina during 1995, and was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York?
Dorothy Canning Miller was the first professionally trained curator of the Museum of Modern Art?
Coleman Coker's work has been featured in the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum, the New York City MoMA, the San Francisco MoMA, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and the National Building Museum?

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Big Bird and Baby Bear with Joan Miro's "Moonbird."

The Museum of Modern Art, often abbreviated as MoMA, is an art Museum located in New York City. Known for its collection of modernist art, is it considered one of the most influential museums of modern art in the world. Its collection includes works of architecture and design, painting, sculpture, photography, drawings, prints, books, film, and other electronic media.

Jim Henson's short film Time Piece premiered in May 1965 at the Museum of Modern Art.

Characters from Sesame Street visited the Museum in a series of inserts for the show for season 28. Baby Bear shows Big Bird his favorite painting, Henri Rousseau's "The Sleeping Gypsy" (EKA: Episode 3529). The duo also observe Joan Miró's sculpture "Moonbird" in the garden (EKA: Episode 3672), a Jackson Pollock painting (EKA: Episode 3694), and a sculpture by Pablo Picasso (EKA: Episode 3702). Baby Bear and Papa Bear observe a Piet Mondrian painting as well (EKA: Episode 3682)

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Events

In 1989, the exhibit "Sesame Street: The First Generation" ran at MoMA including screenings of The Sesame Street Experiment, Follow That Bird and excerpts from Sesame Street and Christmas Eve on Sesame Street.^[1]

References

The museum was spoofed with the coloring books Museum of Monster Art (with the cover spoofing the painting "Napoleon Crossing the Alps" and Museum of Monster Art Sticker Time (spoofing the "Mona Lisa").

Picasso's "Baboon and Young"	Piet Mondrian's "Broadway Boogie Woogie"	Henri Rousseau's "The Sleeping Gypsy"
Jackson Pollock's "One: Number 31, 1950"	Joan Miró's "Moonbird"	Museum of Monster Art Sticker Time
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