cell phone tour

You can dial in to the Museum of Arts and Design Cell Phone Audio tour to hear our curators, artists and outside experts speaking about works in our collections and exhibitions. When you are in the museum, look for the cell phone tour icon posted throughout the galleries to access specific commentaries. You can also dial in to the tour from home at any time.

To access the tour, dial the MAD tour number: 212.514.0017. Once you have connected, you can dial any of the stop numbers below at any time to hear the selected commentary.

The following commentaries are currently available on the cell phone tour.

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Second Lives
100# Second Lives Introduction Chief Curator David McFadden, Curator Lowery Simms
101# Xu Bing, Book from the Ground, 2003-present Chief Curator David McFadden, Curator Lowery Simms
102# Long-Bin Chen, Reading Chair with Buddha Heads, 2007 Chief Curator David McFadden, Curator Lowery Simms
103# Soyeon Cho, Self Portrait #2, 2007 Chief Curator David McFadden, Curator Lowery Simms
104# Willie Cole, Loveseat, 2007 Artist Willie Cole
105# Tara Donovan, Bluffs, 2007 Chief Curator David McFadden, Curator Lowery Simms
106# Piet Hein Eek, 2400, 2008 Chief Curator David McFadden, Curator Lowery Simms
107# Nicholas Galanin, The Good Book Vol. 15, 2006 Chief Curator David McFadden, Curator Lowery Simms
108# Subodh Gupta, Untitled, 2007 Chief Curator David McFadden, Curator Lowery Simms
109# Joe Lewis, Mandela & Anne Frank Forever: The Endless Column, 2006 Artist Joe Lewis
110# Donald Lipsky, Spilt Milk No. 99, 2008 Artist Donald Lipsky
111# Hew Locke, Golden Horde, 2006 Chief Curator David McFadden, Curator Lowery Simms
112# Susie MacMurray, A Mixture of Frailties, 2004 Chief Curator David McFadden, Curator Lowery Simms
113# Donna Marcus, Fall 2, 2002 Associate Curator Brian Parkes
114# Michael Rakowitz, The invisible enemy should not exist, 2007 Artist Michael Rakowitz
115# Nadine Robinson, Great White Me, 2008 Artist Nadine Robinson
116# Jean Shin, Sound Wave, 2007 Artist Jean Shin
117# Johnny Swing, Quarter Lounge, 2008 Artist Johnny Swing
118# Yuken Teruya, Untitled, 2006 Chief Curator David McFadden, Curator Lowery Simms
119# Fred Wilson, Love and Loss in the Milky Way, 2005 Artist Fred Wilson
120# Wok Media, Once, 2008 Chief Curator David McFadden, Curator Lowery Simms