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MoMA exhibits 60s permanent collection galleries devoted to painting and sculpture

United States Architecture News - Apr 11, 2016 - 12:02   4845 views

MoMA exhibits 60s permanent collection galleries devoted to painting and sculpture

Since reopening in its expanded building in 2004, the Museum of Modern Art has shaken itself up in numerous ways, some for better, others for worse. Worse includes a penchant for atrium-oriented spectacle, like Tilda Swinton sleeping in a vitrine; earsplitting music at seemingly every opening; and the debacle that was its halfhearted Björk retrospective.

Better, a larger category, encompasses adding dance and performance, approaching past and present art on global terms and also expanding the collection beyond the white-male-artist demographic......Continue Reading

Top Image: Mason Williams’s screen print “Bus,” enlarged from a photograph by Max Yavno, in a room devoted to 1967 in the Museum of Modern Art’s yearlong show, “From the Collection: 1960-1969.” CreditNicole Bengiveno/The New York Times.

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