Modern artifacts / written by Michelle Elligott ; edited and designed by Tod Lippy ; with artists' projects by Mary Ellen Carroll, Rhea Karam, Mary Lum, Clifford Owens, Michael Rakowitz, Paul Ramirez Jonas ; additional text by Michelle Harvey.

Includes four loose items: "The art of assemblage, exhibition #695, all the materials listed on the checklist in the catalog," inserted between pages [98-99] ; "In visible," inserted between pages [242-243] inside tipped-in envelope ; letter from Alfred H. Barr, Jr., to Nelson A. Rockefeller, February 1, 1940, inserted between pages [320-321] ; Christmas card, LOVE, by Robert Indiana, 1965, inserted between pages [334-335].

"Modern Artifacts features all 18 installments of the eponymous series that appeared in issues of Esopus--several of which are sold out--from 2006 to 2019. The "Modern Artifacts" series featured items reproduced in facsimile from MoMA's extraordinary collection--ranging from documentation related to never-before-realized exhibitions to pages from the Museum's first guest book--curated and introduced by MoMA's Chief of Archives, Library, and Research Collections Michelle Elligott"--Publisher's website.

Charting Modernism -- Dear Miss Miller... -- Tentative and confidential ; Artist's project: Michael Rakowitz -- Drawing comparisons -- Early registration ; Artist's project: Mary Lum -- States of grace -- Number 13 -- The art of broadcasting ; Artist's project: Mary Ellen Carroll -- One and the same -- Rent to own -- Creating spaces ; Artist's project: Clifford Owens -- From body to object -- Seitz specific ; Artist's project: Rhea Karam -- Imagining possibilities -- The healing arts ; Artist's project: Paul Ramirez Jonas -- The living garden -- Modern renaissance -- The young Turks.

Includes index.