Yoshitomo Nara. Don’t say goodbye. 1992–2000. Pencil on graph paper, 8 1/4 x 5 3/4″ (21 x 14.6 cm). Gift of David Teiger in honor of Agnes Gund. © 2016 Yoshitomo Nara Inside/Out readers, it has been a great run. Now it’s time to start something new. After seven terrific years, we are ceasing production on Inside/Out to focus our energies on a forthcoming...

Elizabeth Riggle has been a full-time preparator at the Museum for 16 years (not counting the four years she was a temporary employee). Selflessly, Elizabeth gives her all to make every part of the exhibitions she works on perfect. Her attention to detail comes through in her lush, flowing, painterly works that mine an array of forms including flowers,...

Mark has been a full-time preparator at the Museum for 22 years, as well as a practicing artist for over 40 years. He has exhibited extensively in the United States, Europe, and most recently in Asia. Mark’s unassuming, sweet demeanor belies an intelligent, articulate, and committed painter who has not shied away from experimenting and pushing his work...

Stored away between the paintings and sculptures in MoMA’s storage facility lay a forgotten treasure from the Museum’s past: 11 disassembled pieces of the original stretcher from a Pablo Picasso masterpiece. Museum registrars rediscovered the group of stretcher bars during routine organization earlier this year, and since stretchers are occasionally...

In 2014 MoMA added Google Cardboard to its design collection. Earlier this year the Department of Film organized Slithering Screens, which highlighted notable projects such as James George’s and Jonathan Minard’s documentary Clouds and Lynette Walworth’s virtual-reality film Collisions (2016). But aside from these forays into virtual reality, not much...

Fairchild Aerial Surveys. Fairchild Plant, N.Y. 1949. New York State Archive Aerial Imagery in Print, 1860 to Today, the current MoMA Library exhibition, examines the use of traditional publishing in cultivating a discourse around aerial imagery. A section of the show focuses on 20th-century popularization of aerial photography, including its development...