Museum of Modern Art New York Gallery Talks Study
Summer 1991
Principal Researcher: Abigail Housen
Senior Research Associate: Karin DeSantis
Treatment: Participation in MoMA gallery talks: American Art Since 1945; White Works; Pollock; Art Now; Abstraction: Picasso, Matisse, Rothko, Pollock
Assessment tools: Aesthetic Development Interviews, questionnaires, gallery talk recall questions
Subjects: 22 adult participants in gallery talks Total Subjects: 22
Findings:
Participants heard lectures and saw images through filter of their stage. Participant recall of gallery talk content correlated more with stage than any other variable.
Site Coordinator: Nancy Lee Miller