Sadly, I also note the passing of Madeline Matz, my former colleague at The Museum of Modern Art, as well as my neighborhood friend from the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I had the privilege of knowing her both professionally and personally, starting when I worked in the Department of Film at The Museum of Modern Art. Madeline was involved in the preservation of movies in MoMA’s collection, and I was the one who catalogued them following her conservation work. Madeline left MoMA in 1978 to work in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and our friendship continued ever since. Sadly, Madeline passed away in June of this year. Click here for the remembrance that I wrote about her, which is published in the current issue of the FIAF Journal of Film Preservation (issue #105, November 2021). It appears together with the tribute to Madeline by Kim Tomadjoglou, who became a friend and colleague of Madeline’s in Washington after she left MoMA to worked at The Library of Congress.

Thanks to FIAF and the Journal of Film Preservation for permission to post this article in my Curator’s Corner.

CURATOR'S CORNER

In Memoriam: Madeline Matz