Technical Assistant of the Museum of American Art at Summer School as School 2021
August 5, 2021, 19:00
Venue: Boxing Club
Technical Assistant of the Museum of American Art
The Museum of American Art is an educational institution dedicated to assembling, preserving and exhibiting memories primarily on the Museum of Modern Art in New York and its International Program of Circulating Exhibitions of American art. It is those MoMA exhibitions, some of them curated by Dorothy Miller, that helped establishing throughout the Western Europe the first post-war common cultural identity based on internationalism, modernism and individualism.
From the very beginning Museum of Modern Art was perceived, especially by the American Art lovers, as being almost entirely pro European and at the same time, indifferent toward the Americans. This was basically true, since at that time one could hardly find examples of American Art that would fit into the dominant modern narrative. The content and the structure of this narrative was based on “international movements”, whose roots we could trace to early 20th century modern art movements in Europe. The story was finally put together in mid ‘30es by Alfred Barr Jr. after his exhibition “Cubism and Abstract Art” as defined through his famous diagram and later through the “display narrative” of the Museum of Modern Art.
Technical Assistant is associated with the Museum of American Art, helping installing its temporary exhibition and giving public presentations about the museum activities.