I wish I had pictures of the last few weeks. I had the honor or training curators at MoMA to conduct oral histories; they're preparing to meet curators and artists from around the world. Being in the secret chambers of a place I love was half the fun. Running around the galleries after the training was also thrilling. Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language is an amazing show, if you have time to see it.

Here are some photos from Paul Eliman's series on 'found fonts.' 

From May 14, 2012

From May 14, 2012

This was one of my favorite parts of the show.

[From Imprint]

...the conceptual heart of the show, and the highlight, is Found Fount, by the London-based designer Paul Elliman. Elliman has long been experimenting with deconstructions of language and objects—creating alphabets from photobooth portraits, for example. Whereas some artists in the show disassemble language into its physical forms or turn it into sculptures drained of immediate linguistic meanings, Elliman conjures words from ordinary objects. "Dead Scissors," for example, collects broken-off scissor handles that look like the letter P.

Although Elliman has been gathering the pieces of Found Fount for 23 years, this is the first time the physical forms have been publicly on display. The show collects just a small sampling of the work, which still takes up a vast vitrine: cracked pieces of plastic, rusted metal U-rings, rhinestone-encrusted broaches, plastic beads, and cardboard cast-offs.