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Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive

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MOMA AT WORK: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT AT 150: UNPACKING THE ARCHIVE

Celebrate renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s 150th birthday with The Museum of Modern Art. MoMA educator Molleen Theodore will be speaking about their current exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive. The exhibition comprises approximately 400 works made from the 1890s through the 1950s, including architectural drawings, models, building fragments, films, television broadcasts, print media, furniture, tableware, textiles, paintings, and photographs, along with a number of works that have rarely or never been publicly exhibited.

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Molleen Theodore has been an Education Lecturer at MoMA since 2007. In addition, she is the Associate Curator of Programs at the Yale University Art Gallery. She has served as the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Fellow in the Education Department at the Yale Art Gallery, where she supervised students in curating exhibitions, a critic at the Yale School of Art, and a lecturer in the Department of the History of Art at Yale. Molleen holds a PH.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center with a focus on the art of the 1960s and 1970s.

Image: Frank Lloyd Wright. March Balloons. 1955. Drawing based on a c. 1926 design for Liberty magazine. Colored pencil on paper, 28 1/4 x 24 1/2″ (71.8 x 62.2 cm). The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York)

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