Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art, often abbreviated as MoMA, is an art Museum located in New York City. Known for its collection of modernist art, is it considered one of the most influential museums of modern art in the world. Its collection includes works of architecture and design, painting, sculpture, photography, drawings, prints, books, film, and other electronic media.
Jim Henson's short film Time Piece premiered in May 1965 at the Museum of Modern Art. 
Characters from Sesame Street visited the Museum in a series of inserts for the show for season 28. Baby Bear shows Big Bird his favorite painting, Henri Rousseau's "The Sleeping Gypsy" . The duo also observe Joan Miró's sculpture "Moonbird" in the garden , a Jackson Pollock painting , and a sculpture by Pablo Picasso . Baby Bear and Papa Bear observe a Piet Mondrian painting as well . The segments were all recorded on August 15, 1996.Tony Geiss Papers at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
In 2015, as promotion for the special The Cookie Thief, Cookie Monster visited three New York museums -- the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. At MoMA, he particularly admired Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night.
==Events==
* In 1989, the exhibit "Sesame Street: The First Generation" ran at MoMA including screenings of The Sesame Street Experiment, Follow That Bird and excerpts from Sesame Street and Christmas Eve on Sesame Street.NY Times November 10, 1989
==References==
* The museum was spoofed with the coloring books Museum of Monster Art (with the cover spoofing the painting "Napoleon Crossing the Alps") and Museum of Monster Art Sticker Time (spoofing the "Mona Lisa").
*The Museum of Modern Cookie, featured in the special The Cookie Thief, borrows its name from the museum.
Image:MOMA.Picasso.jpg|Picasso's "Baboon and Young"
Image:MOMA.PietMondrian.jpg|Piet Mondrian's "Broadway Boogie Woogie"
Image:MOMA.SleepingGypsy.jpg|Henri Rousseau's "The Sleeping Gypsy"
Image:3694.NYMOMA.jpg|Jackson Pollock's "One: Number 31, 1950"
Image:BabyBear.statue.jpg|Joan Miró's "Moonbird"
Image:Monsterartsticker.jpg|Museum of Monster Art Sticker Time
Image:Cbookmuseumofmonsterart.JPG|Museum of Monster Art
File:Museum_of_modern_art_starry_night_1.jpg|Cookie Monster at the Museum of Modern Art, February 2015.
File:Moma_starry_night.jpg
Image:SSFirstGen.jpg|Sesame Street: The First Generation poster, at The Museum of Modern Art (1989)
==Sources==
==External links==
* Official site
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