This past weekend I finally had the chance to go back to MoMA. Since the last time I was there, one of the previous shows I visited had closed and two new ones were opened. I attended the two shows- “Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection” and “Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction”. I started off with similar note-taking that I have done before, recording what is on display, information provided, set up, etc…

Upon looking at these findings, I ended up coming up with a method to better organize my findings.The title of the exhibition is shortened in the middle, with the number on top symbolizing the spaces available to contemplate the art/rest and the bottom number any additional resources immediately available (such as exhibition catalogues or books about specific artists). The color/line around it represented my overall feeling/mood while in the exhibition. The dashes in the circle represent each piece and label on display and are meant to be read clockwise in the order of the exhibition itself. It ends up coming full circle as the exhibition spaces at MoMA always lead back to the start of the exhibition. The orange “i” coming out of each represents additional information provided about the piece or artist that made it. The red lines along the outside represent what I observed as acting barriers between the viewer and pieces. “MS” (Making Space) additionally catalogued all of the works according to genre type so I chose to demonstrate that by separating them off into colored sections.

“Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction” Data

“Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection” Data

I’m really liking this organization style and am working on transferring the data I have already on past exhibitions into this same format. I am hoping to go back to MoMA again for a third time in the next couple of weeks, perhaps on a weekday where I will be able to directly compare the experience of visiting the museum outside of the peak weekend times that I have visited during. I will be utilizing data collected about the museum visits as well to create another data visualization similar to the current setup I have.