The latest offering from our regular series co-presented with the MoMA Archives documents an important opening and a historic—and timely—radio broadcast by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (reproduced on the issue’s CD) celebrating the link between democracy and artistic freedom.
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Modern Artifacts 9: One and the Same
Introduction by Michelle Elligott
Michelle Elligott is Chief of Archives, Library, and Research Collections at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Museum Studies at New York University. Her award-winning publications include Modern Artifacts (2020), René d’Harnoncourt and the Art of Installation (2018), and Art in Our Time: A Chronicle of the Museum of Modern Art (2004). Elligott was a Center for Curatorial Leadership International Fellow in 2016 and a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece, in 2005. She holds a B.A. from Smith College and an M.A. from Hunter College, CUNY, both in Art History.