Perhaps of interest if you happen to be in New York over the next several weeks.

Excellent example of an exhibition developed from an archives.

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Subject: [museum] Exhibition Announcement: From the MoMA PS1 Archives

*Apologies for cross-posting*

The Museum of Modern Art Archives is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition The Artist in Place: The First Ten Years of MoMA PS1.

MoMA PS1 began over 40 years ago as The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, an organization dedicated to rehabilitating derelict property around New York City into spaces for artists to create and display their work. Within 10 years, the Institute had occupied the iconic P.S. 1 school building in Queens and the downtown Clocktower Gallery, developed a formal studio program that drew young artists from around the world, and maintained an exhibition schedule that frequently involved hundreds of artists in a single season. Drawing on materials from the soon to be opened institutional records of PS1 in the MoMA Archives, this exhibition chronicles the growth and development of MoMA PS1 in its first decade—from its origins as a temporary art event to one of the largest art spaces in the country—and emphasizes its enduring legacy as a central participant in the New York art world and a showcase for a critical era in contemporary art.

The exhibition is on view October 24, 2012–January 1, 2013 in the Celesete Bartos Theater Lobby of the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education Building, using the museum entrance at 4 West Fifty-fourth Street.

The exhibition website can be seen here<http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2012/artistinplace/>.

The Artist in Place: The First Ten Years of MoMA PS1 was organized by Jonathan Lill and Alana Miller, Project Archivist and Archives Assistant, The Museum of Modern Art Archives. Funding for the processing and creation of a finding aid for the MoMA PS1 Archives was provided by the Leon Levy Foundation.




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