#CulturedPeachy @MuseumModernArt “Inventing The Modern: Untold Stories Of The Women Who Shaped The Museum of Modern Art” to be Published in September 2024
Essays by Distinguished Contemporary Women Celebrate the Trailblazers Who Founded and Impacted the Museum in Its Early Decades
The Museum of Modern Art today announces the forthcoming publication of Inventing the Modern: Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped The Museum of Modern Art, a revelatory account of the Museum’s earliest years told through newly commissioned profiles of 14 women who had a decisive impact on the formation and development of the institution. Inventing the Modern comprises illuminating new essays on the women who, as founders, curators, patrons, and directors of various departments, made enduring contributions to MoMA during its early decades (especially between 1929 and 1945), creating new models for how to envision, establish, and operate a museum in an era when the field of modern art was uncharted territory.
The publication, which will be available in September 2024, is edited by Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, and Romy Silver-Kohn, researcher in the Museum’s Department of Painting and Sculpture.
