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...through the 1920s Picasso's work found its way fitfully into the U.S., through occasional, short-lived exhibitions or dim black-and-white reproductions. But when the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) opened in Manhattan in 1929, it allowed for the first time the permanent display of a few real Picassos in the city where nearly all of the most alert American artists were gathered. That is what happened to The Studio, which Picasso completed in 1928. It was first seen briefly in the U.S. five years later. But by 1935 it had found its way into MOMA's permanent...
...Getting such an early start on the career path can only help Saez decide where she wants to wind up, says her mentor and boss at MoMA, Chris McGlinchey. "I had a postdoctoral student write me the other day saying she had just happened upon conservation science," he says. "She had never realized you could combine art and science, and now she's scrambling to try to redirect her career this...
...Museum of Modern Art Now available: MoMA Audio, a selection of museum tours as downloadable podcasts. Wear your own earbuds as you walk through the special exhibitions or the permanent collection; separate audio tours are available for kids and for the visually impaired...
...GLASS Collectible glass is on the rise. And some of the best pieces are made from recycled bottles. Los Angeles design studio Artecnica has introduced tranSglass, an environmentally conscious line of glassware that has landed in MOMA's tabletop collection. London-based artisans Tord Boontje and Emma Woffenden have molded and handcrafted the hard, sharp, clean forms that retain the original colors of the shards fished from the Dumpster...
...only one moving into galleries. Swoon, 27, makes intricate figurative images that she wheat-pastes to walls. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art acquired six of her pieces this past summer. "We were astounded," says Deborah Wye, chief curator of MOMA's department of prints. "She was using very traditional printmaking techniques--woodcut and linoleum--that she had infused with this contemporary spirit." It's a spirit she takes from the street. And one she leaves behind there...