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’s Archive
Continuing our tour in the great museums and their collections, after the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, our next stop is MoMA for a second time. 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 second part of tribute, we will show you a part of the most recent acquisitions paintings and sculptures, by older and younger contemporary artists as: Mona Hatoum, Martin Kippenberger, Nam June Paik, Brice Marden, Felix Conzalez Torres, Joseph Kosuth, Gerald Richter, Robert Gober e.c.t. In early 2014, the museum unveiledDiller & Scofidio + Renfro’splans 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.
Brice Marden, Vine, 1992-93, Oil on Canvas, MoMA Archive
Bruce Nauman, Think, 1993, Video on 2 Monitors, MoMA Archive
Joseph Kosuth, Language Must Speak for Itself, 1991, Neon Τubing, Τransformers, and Wire, MoMA Archive
Martin Kippenberger, Martin, Into the Corner, You Should Be Ashamed of Yourself, 1992, Cast Aluminum, Clothing, and Iron Plate, MoMA Archive
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled”, 1992, Light Βulbs, Εxtension Cord, and Porcelain Light Sockets, MoMA Archive
Nam June Paik, Untitled, 1993, Player Piano, Fifteen Televisions, Two Cameras, Two Laser Disc Players, One Electric Light & Light Βulb & Wires, MoMA Archive
Luc Tuymans, Sheer curtains, 1991, Oil on Canvas, MoMA Archive
Rosemarie Trockel, Violette Beach, 2010, Glazed Ceramic, in two parts, MoMA Archive
