New York's Museum of Modern Art holds paintings and sculptures by some of the best-known names in modern art, but this film built for public television by Great Museums TV picks an unlikely object to frame the visit: a Vincent Black Shadow motorcycle, on display in the galleries alongside the paintings and photographs. The pairing is the hook curators use to make a point about MoMA's collecting instinct, that industrial design belongs in the same rooms as fine art if the form is good enough. The camera moves through the galleries the way a visitor would, pausing on individual works rather than rushing past them, while curators explain why particular pieces earned a place in the permanent collection. It plays as a short walkthrough of the museum's holdings and its curatorial philosophy rather than a history of any single artist or movement.