This Day, That Year – November 7

This day in history we feature Museum of Modern Art. In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public on this day in 1929.

Trivia – Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of the largest and most influential museums of modern art in the world. MoMA’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.

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The 1939 museum building by Philip Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone was later expanded with an addition designed by Philip Johnson, who also planned the garden in 1953. A condominium tower and a west wing that doubled the museum’s exhibition space were completed in 1984. A dramatic expansion and reconfiguration of the museum—enlarging exhibit space, adding skylights, relocating the main entrance, and building an education and research complex—was designed by Yoshio Taniguchi and completed in 2004. The museum again underwent a large expansion in 2019 that also included a complete rehang of its collection. Rethinking the traditional exhibition model based on chronology, discipline, or region, curators instead displayed works by theme and also attempted to address diversity issues by integrating more art by women and persons of colour. The MoMA Library includes approximately 300,000 books and exhibition catalogs, more than 1,000 periodical titles, and more than 40,000 files of ephemera about individual artists and groups. The archives hold primary source material related to the history of modern and contemporary art. It attracted 1,160,686 visitors in 2021, an increase of sixty-four percent from 2020. It ranked 15th on the list of most visited art museums in the world in 2021.

Source – Wikipedia/Britannica

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