are presented each season and have been distributed to scores of educa-
tional institutions throughout the country. The film library maintains active
research and information services and presents each year in conjunction
with Columbia University a course in the history and technique of the
motion picture.

The museum regularly conducts a number of other activities. Modern
art committees have been established in thirty cities. Museum publications,
issued at reasonable prices, supplement and perpetuate the current exhibi-
tions. A bulletin is issued six times yearly. The museum also houses a fine
working library of more than three thousand volumes on modern art, pe-
riodicals, and photographs; and a lending collection of slides, photographs,
and half-tone cuts for printing service. Lectures on a variety of subjects are
also included in the museum's service.

The museum building, five stories above ground with a theater below,
is constructed of reinforced concrete and steel with contrasting surfaces of
veined marble, glass brick, blue glazed tile, and plate glass. Its inte-
rior affords rich but simple settings for the display of art. The museum
is planned as part of a design that includes the Rockefeller Apartments to
the north, and Rockefeller Center (see page 333) to the south. Eventually,
the southern facade with its strong horizontal lines will terminate a plaza
leading from the Center. The rear facade forms one side of a garden court
of the apartment house; its setbacks were designed to allow sunlight to
enter the garden.

Central Park

Boundaries: 5th Ave. to Central Park West; Central Park South (59th St.) to
Cathedral Parkway (110th St.). IRT Broadway-7th Ave. subway (local) to Colum-
bus Circle (59th St.); or 8th Ave. (Independent) Washington Heights or Grand
Concourse subway (local), 59th to noth St. stations; or BMT subway (local) to
5th Ave. (59th St.); or 9th Ave. el, 66th to noth St. stations; or 5th or
8th Ave. bus, 59th to 110th St. Map on page 277.

From the upper floors of an apartment hotel on its southern border
Central Park appears as a vast irregular terrain marked by outcropping
rock formations, wooded areas, and many bodies of water. Deep green
marks it, summer and spring, and fall brings to it a variety of color that
changes day by day. The park is enclosed by stone walls, with entrance
gates at frequent intervals. It has two longitudinal boulevards, East Drive
and West Drive, and four transverses depressed below the park's level—
East Sixty-fifth to West Sixty-sixth, East Seventy-ninth to West Eighty-