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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