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MoMA [Museum of Modern Art]
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| About The Museum of Modern Art |
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In the late 1920s, three progressive and influential patrons of the arts, Miss Lillie P. Bliss, Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., perceived a need to challenge the conservative policies of traditional museums and to establish an institution devoted exclusively to modern art. They, along with additional original trustees A. Conger Goodyear, Paul Sachs, Frank Crowninshield, and Josephine Boardman Crane, created The Museum of Modern Art in 1929. Its founding director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., intended the Museum to be dedicated to helping people understand and enjoy the visual arts of our time, and that it might provide New York with “the greatest museum of modern art in the world.”
The rich and varied collection of The Museum of Modern Art constitutes one of the most comprehensive and panoramic views into modern art. From an initial gift of eight prints and one drawing, The Museum of Modern Art’s collection has grown to approximately 200,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, media and performance art works, architectural models and drawings, design objects, and films. MoMA also owns approximately two million film stills. The Museum’s Library and Archives contain the leading concentration of research material on modern art in the world, and each of the curatorial departments maintains a study center available to students, scholars, and researchers. MoMA’s Library holds over 320,000 items, including books, artists’ books, periodicals, and extensive individual files on more than 90,000 artists. The Museum Archives contains primary source material related to the history of MoMA and modern and contemporary art.
The Museum maintains an active schedule of modern and contemporary art exhibitions addressing a wide range of subject matter, mediums, and time periods, highlighting significant recent developments in the visual arts and new interpretations of major artists and art historical movements. Works of art from its collection are displayed in rotating installations so that the public may regularly expect to find new works on display. Ongoing programs of classic and contemporary films range from retrospectives and historical surveys to introductions of the work of independent and experimental film- and video makers. Visitors also enjoy access to bookstores offering an assortment of publications, and a design store offering objects related to modern and contemporary art and design.
The Museum is dedicated to its role as an educational institution and provides a complete program of activities intended to assist both the general public and special segments of the community in approaching and understanding the world of modern and contemporary art. In addition to gallery talks, lectures, and symposia, the Museum offers special activities for parents, teachers, families, students, preschoolers, bilingual visitors, and people with special needs. In addition, the Museum has one of the most active publishing programs of any art museum and has published more than 2,500 editions appearing in 35 languages. |
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| Museum History Timeline |
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Museum founded and opens in the Heckscher Building at 730 Fifth Avenue
Seeking more space, the Museum moves to a five-story townhouse at 11 West 53rd Street, owned by John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
The newly expanded and renovated Museum, designed by Yoshio Taniguchi, opens to the public at 11 West 53rd Street, marking the Museum’s 75th anniversary year [ »link]
MoMA opens its newly expanded and renovated Museum marking the Museum’s 90th anniversary year [ »link] |
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11, west 53rd street (Fifth avenue, West 54th street, Avenue of the Americas)
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ARCHITECTURE | Buildings for cultural activities
Art galleries and exhibition areas
Museums and buildings for exhibitions
Art museums
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BIBILIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES |
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| Domus 802, marzo/march 1998 [Uno spazio comune/A common space], pp. 83-88 |
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| Nicholas Adams, "Un moderno neomoderno: l'ampliamento del MoMA, architettura e aura al Museum of Modern Art", Casabella 649, ottobre/october 1997, "News" p. 80 (80-85) |
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| Bruno Zevi, Spazî dell'architettura moderna, Einaudi, Torino 1973, tav. 518 [XI. Il movimento organico negli Stati Uniti] |
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| MoMA Museum of Modern Art |
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Philip L. Goodwin
Edward Durell Stone |
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