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| Exterior view of the Futurama exhibit at the 1939/40 New York World’s Fair designed by Norman Bel Geddes and sponsored by General Motors. It occupied approximately 35,000 square feet and received some 30,000 visitors each day. |
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| Marc and Bella Chagall, 1923 Photograph by Hugo Erfurth |
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| The Museum of Modern Art opened 84 years ago this week in the Heckscher Building, 730 Fifth Avenue (corner of Fifth Avenue and 57 Street) on November 7, 1929. The museum rented six rooms on the 12th floor for galleries, offices and the library. MoMA’s first exhibition, Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh ran from November 7 – December 7, 1929. Photograph by Peter Juley, The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. |
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| Photograph from Expo 67 in Montreal that ran from April through October 1967. Inventor and architect R. Buckminster Fuller designed the geodesic dome that served as the United States Pavilion at the fair. Fuller’s dome still stands and now inhabits the Biosphere, Environment Museum. |
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| Man Ray, Surrealist chessboard, 1934 copyright SABAM Belgium 2009 |
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| Michael and Falk, Germany, 1976 |
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| My grandmother Dorothy Bowe in Southern California late 1920s |
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| American fashion designer Claire McCardell (1905-1958) in her “future dress” circa 1945 |