GREAT MUSEUMS:MoMA-N.York I

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art Museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It has been important in developing and collecting modern and contemporary art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. The collection of MoMA has artworks from the greatest artists in the history of art, from “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” of Pablo Picasso and works from Henri Matisse and Van Gogh, to Marchel Duchamp, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock and Sara Szee.

By Efi Michalarou
Photo: MoMa Archive

Continuing our tour in the great museums and their collections, after the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, our next stop is MoMA. The museum’s collection offers an overview of modern and contemporary art, including works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books and artist’s books, film and electronic media. In this first part of tribute, we will show you a part of the most recent acquisitions paintings and sculptures, by older and younger contemporary artists as: Sol Le Witt. Alex Katz, Yayoi Kusama, Sarah Szee, Mathew Barney, Michel Majerous and Janine Antoni. In early 2014, the museum unveiled Diller & Scofidio + Renfro’s plans for a redesign of its building, featuring a retractable glass wall, new gallery space and the opening of its entire first floor, including the sculpture garden, free to the public. In particular, the proposed expansion would give the museum 15,500 square feet of new gallery space in the former site of the American Folk Art Museum and 39,000 in the Tower Verre. Construction on the project is scheduled to be finished by 2018 or 2019.