MoMA Art Lab: Process

The Museum of Modern Art is offering children a new way to play: Instead of pretending to be, say, Batman or Katniss Everdeen, how about imagining yourself as Ellsworth Kelly or Louise Nevelson? The place to try on these identities is the latest MoMA Art Lab, intended not only to acquaint young visitors with the works in the museum’s collection but also to help them relate to the methods and meanings behind them. The space explores the artistic process through stations where children can, for example, imitate Kelly’s gridlike designs or recreate and reinterpret a Nevelson sculpture. There are also opportunities to sketch a still life, design a chair, work with unusual materials and listen to tapes of artists discussing their work.