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  Museum of Modern Art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is one of the leading museums of modern art in the world.
The Museum of Modern Art was founded in 1929 by a triumvirate of patrons: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Mary Sullivan, and Lillie P. Bliss.
MoMA's Midtown location underwent extensive renovations in the 2000s, closing on May 21, 2002 and reopening to the public in a building redesigned by the Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi on November 20, 2004.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Museum_of_Modern_Art   (571 words)

  
 Modern Art Oxford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Modern Art Oxford is an art gallery established in 1969 at the University of Oxford.
From 1969 to 2002 the gallery was known as The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
The gallery's original founders—a small group of Oxford dons— aspired to build it into a museum with a permanent collection by way of an endowment from the University; Oxford declined, leaving the gallery with a misnomer.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Museum_of_Modern_Art,_Oxford   (276 words)

  
 Paris modern art museum reopens - Boston.com
One of the treasures of Paris' Modern Art Museum is a Pierre Bonnard painting of his wife in the bath, her ageless body lapped by pale blue bath water.
PARIS --One of the treasures of Paris' Modern Art Museum is a Pierre Bonnard painting of his wife in the bath, her ageless body lapped by pale blue bath water.
In one of the last bath paintings, on loan from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art, Boursin seems to fade away, and the features of a small brown dog at the foot of the bathtub are drawn more clearly than her face.
www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2006/02/01/paris_modern_art_museum_reopens   (560 words)

  
 Historic Audio From the Museum of Modern Art Archives
Artist Vija Celmins was interviewed by art critic and contributing editor of Art in America, Eleanor Heartney at the Museum of Modern Art on April 20, 2005.
The Museum of Modern Art's Conversations With Artists Series, featuring photographer An-My Le was recorded at The Museum of Modern Art in New York by WPS1 on May 6, 2005.
The spunky art historian Amei Wallach moderates with humor and tact.
www.wps1.org /include/shows/moma.html#assemblage   (3510 words)

  
 village voice > art > Museum of Modern Art by Jerry Saltz
A private high point in the Museum of Modern Art's new painting and sculpture galleries was the exoneration I felt in the side alcove entry into the fifth-floor galleries.
After the shock of seeing the glorious new Museum of Modern Art building and the awe of beholding its permanent collection installed in the fourth- and fifth-floor galleries, there is the disappointment and frustration about how this institution handles the art of the last 30 years.
The current, admittedly impermanent but nevertheless desultory arrangement of the art of this period in the museum's gleaming second-floor galleries—a space so high-ceilinged and immense that it feels as if it were designed with Richard Serra in mind—is so lackluster that it makes you wonder how this institution views itself.
www.villagevoice.com /issues/0447/saltz.php   (1387 words)

  
 The Museum of Modern Art - Museums - New York Magazine
Its art museums reflect the city’s temperament: The Metropolitan is an august classical pile, the Whitney a bristling modern fortress, the Guggenheim a cosmic spiral.
Not only did MoMA own the greatest collection of modern art in the world—it was also a living part of the story it was telling, championing modern ideas even as it codified them.
MoMA is no longer the edgy institution of its youth, a place of argument, sharp elbows, and missionary zeal.
www.nymetro.com /pages/venues/165.htm   (703 words)

  
 Rhodes CITY ,The Museum of Modern Greek ART .Rhodos island ,Rodos GREECE ,Nestoridion Melathron ,Rodos ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The museum of Modern Art in Rhodes holds one of the most comprehensive collections of Greek Art of the 20th
In the late 50's it was the first art gallery of the Greek art to acquire permanent istallations.
The centre of Contemporary Art Museum is located in the heart of the Medieval Town,on Sokratous street.
www.faliraki-info.com /rhodes/art-museum.htm   (254 words)

  
 ipanema.com Rio de Janeiro Virtual Citytour: MUSEUM HOPPING
Rio's Museum of Modern Art was founded in 1948 by a group of art enthusiasts headed by Raimundo Castro Maia (see Museu do Açude and Chácara do Céu).
The National Museum was the first scientific institution in Brazil, created by D. João VI in the year of 1818.
Once the residence of Raimundo Castro Maya (1894-1968), one of the founders of the Museum of Modern Art.
www.ipanema.com /citytour/museum.htm   (1541 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Museum of Modern Art, Art Museum (Art Museums) - Encyclopedia
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, established and incorporated in 1929.
MoMA has outstanding departments of photography and architecture, a reference library, and a film library.
In 1999 the museum agreed to merge with P.S. 1, a contemporary art space in Long Island City, Queens, giving MoMA a greater connection to avant-garde art.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MuseumMo.html   (381 words)

  
 Museum of Modern Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
He knew art, how it related to the world historically and with relation to other mediums; literature and architecture and screenwriting.
To me, art is expression, and it should be judged on its quality, its ability to set off the emotions of an individual viewer or listener.
In fact, the only art forms today that seem to stay true to art are movies and music.
www.notesfromtheroad.com /atlantic/atlantic3.htm   (1100 words)

  
 Belgrade - Museum of Modern Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Museum of Modern Art is situated in New Belgrade, on the left bank of the river Sava.
This building represents an original architectural concept linking its interior with the exterior and at the same time meeting all the principals of a museum, thus ranking it among the most significant examples of modern museum architecture in in Serbia and the world in general.
The Museum of Modern art was founded in 1958 aiming to collect, study and exhibit the works of modern Yugoslav art.
www.yuheritage.com /bgmuzejmoderne.htm?MU=2   (170 words)

  
 MODERN ART OXFORD | HOME   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Modern Art Oxford has a changing programme of exhibitions and events.
Founded in 1965, we are the South East‘s leading centre for modern and contemporary art with a national and international reputation.
Modern Art Oxford is Supported by Oxford City Council, Arts Council England, South East and the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
www.modernartoxford.org.uk   (156 words)

  
 Art/Museums: Fernand Léger at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1998   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Art/Museums: Fernand Léger at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1998
Art, for him, was not for art's sake - it was a visionary responsibility to coalesce meaning from the blurring of progress.
In retrospect, however, Léger may well be the foremost artist of the city and the leading Art Deco artist, as well as one of the century's most important art theoreticians and moralists.
www.thecityreview.com /leger.html   (1603 words)

  
 Museum of Modern Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
To prepare for my show, I went through the museum photographing and measuring keyholes, lightswitches, electric outlets, doorknobs air vents and bricks.
Without MOMA's permission or awareness I hung these photos all over the museum in places you would expect them to be, but weren't.
I believe this is the longest running one-man show in the history of the Museum Of Modern Art.
www.hankart.com /Hank-Art/moma.html   (195 words)

  
 Florina Museum of Modern Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
he Modern Art Museum of Florina was founded in 1977.
In 1991 an art workshop was established in the Museum and is presently in operation.
Its aim is to bring out and encourage the artistic talents of the young people of the region.
www.culture.gr /4/42/422/42202/42202f/e42202f1.html   (72 words)

  
 Museum of Modern Art Tickets
MoMA's rich and varied collection constitutes one of the most comprehensive and panoramic views into modern art in the world, and has grown to include over 135,000 paintings, prints, photographs, drawings, sculptures, films, and design objects.
The Museum also maintains an active schedule of exhibitions highlighting significant recent developments in the modern visual arts and new interpretations of major modern artists and art historical movements.
Recently reopened after a dramatic renovation, The Museum of Modern Art is now 630,000 square-feet, nearly twice the size of the former facility, offering dramatically expanded and redesigned spaces for exhibitions, public programming, educational outreach and scholarly research.
www.365tickets.com /attractions.cfm/attractId/525   (495 words)

  
 MUMOK - Museum of Modern Art
Pop Art is represented by works of Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns and others; Fluxus and Nouveau Réalisme by creations of Daniel Spoerri, Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, George Brecht and Marcel Duchamp.
Viennese Actionism, Austria's radical and essential contribution to the international development of avant-garde art, is excellently documented with works by Günter Brus, Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler.
In its cupola hall, the MUMOK presents art history from classic modern works up to the present, ranging from Kupka to Kandinsky and from Mondrian to Moore.
wien.info /article.asp?IDArticle=3084   (187 words)

  
 Art/Museums: Gerhard Richter at the Museum of Modern Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Art/Museums: Gerhard Richter at the Museum of Modern Art
In 2000, MOMA showed canvases from his famous, and to some notorious, "October 18, 1977" series, devoted to the Baader Meinhoff terrorists; all fifteen of these important paintings are now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
For technical wizardry, Richter's daughter "Betty," a 1988, 40 1/8-by-23 3/8-inch oil on canvas (The St. Louis Art Museum), with her back turned to the viewer in a red and white jacket, is a refreshing, "Old World" exercise in painterly virtuosity, and an interesting twist on Vermeer and Ingres.
www.thecityreview.com /richter.html   (14014 words)

  
 The Gezira Center for Modern Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The idea of establishing a museum to exhibit modern Egyptian art masterpieces was first introduced in 1925 by Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil, a famous Egyptian fine art fan.
Several years later, the donations of fine art aficionados filled the room and the Ministry of Education decided to move the museum to a new headquarters at Mousiri Palace.
The Egyptian Museum of Modern Art now displays more than 10,000 paintings and sculptures that represent the development of the Egyptian art movement from the pioneers of the early 20th century to the contemporary art trends.
www.touregypt.net /museums/gezira/gezira.htm   (468 words)

  
 Irish Museum of Modern Art: Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, which comprises some 4,500 works, has been developed since 1990 through purchase, donations and long-term loans, as well as by the commissioning of new works.
The Museum’s acquisitions policy is to concentrate on the work of living artists, but it accepts donations and loans of more historical art objects with a particular emphasis on work from the 1940s onwards.
Its presence endorses the museum's founding principle that it must engage in a renegotiation of standing definitions of artist and non-artist and the role of the contemporary art museum.
www.modernart.ie /en/nav_9.htm   (885 words)

  
 Museum of Modern Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
This institution was founded with the support of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and other members of New York's wealthy elite who had embraced modern art in the 1920s and 1930s.
Its primary goal was to popularize modern art in the United States by making this heretofore European phenomenon accessable to the general public.
In 1935, the Rockefeller House and its land were donated to the Museum.
www.nyu.edu /classes/finearts/nyc/rock/moma.html   (245 words)

  
 Akita Musemu of Modern Art
In order to follow the current trends in modern and present-day thought in fine art, our collection of fine works concentrates mostly on the post-modern era, such as the Akita School of Ranga.
The role of the museum is to present the different aspects of art, and its variety of expressions to the public.
The Akita Museumk of Modern Art lies on a beautiful hillside in the Akita Furusato Village.
www.dnp.co.jp /museum/akita/akita-e.html   (233 words)

  
 The Epoch Times | NY Museum of Modern Art Reopens in Manhattan
Visitors queue to enter the Museum of Modern Art in New York 20 November 2004 after it reopened to the general public after renovations.
New York's Museum of Modern Art - known affectionately by its acronym MoMA - is one of the world's premier centers of contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, design, and film.
The Museum of Modern Art was established in 1929, in part because the prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art wasn't very interested in collecting and displaying works by contemporary artists.
english.epochtimes.com /news/4-11-25/24579.html   (477 words)

  
 Research: Yufuin Modern Art Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
He visited the Yufuin Modern Art Museum and found it to be extremely educational and was entranced by the wonderful collection of modern Japanese art.
Near the museum is an art gallery operated by the wife of the owner of the museum.
The writer is honoured to meet the wife of the owner of the art gallery (also the owner of the Yufuin Museum and Modern art museum).
www.easterntea.com /research/yufuin.htm   (234 words)

  
 ARKEN Museum of Modern Art
The prize was awarded for the uncompromising and innovative quality and singular international level of their work.
ARKEN's Collection comprises almost 400 works of Danish, Nordic and international art with special emphasis on contemporary art, i.e.
ARKEN's architecture is full of contrasts, with dramatic transitions between large, open galleries and small, intimate rooms — between rooms with odd angles and shapes and traditional square galleries.
www.arken.dk /?ID=12   (78 words)

  
 The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / Art Museum:Art Museum:Event Calender   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Originated in the early twentieth century by Picasso and other artists, Cubism was one of the most important developments in modern art that had a global and enduring impact.
This is the museum's first exhibition featuring the painter after the posthumous show held in 1963, and provides a full view of his art.
Using three floors of the main building, the permanent exhibition presents about 200 to 250 pieces selected from our museum's collection of about 9,200 works, including Japanese- and Western-style paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, photographs and sculptures, to provide a historical overview on modern Japanese art from the beginning of the 20th century to present.
www.momat.go.jp /english/artmuseum/cal.html   (1186 words)

  
 Irish Museum of Modern Art: Welcome to IMMA | Museum of Modern Art Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Irish Museum of Modern Art is Ireland's leading national institution for the collection and presentation of modern and contemporary art.
The Museum presents a wide variety of art in a dynamic programme of exhibitions, which regularly includes bodies of work from its own Collection and its award-winning Education and Community Department.
It also creates more widespread access to art and artists through its Studio and National programmes.
www.modernart.ie   (119 words)

  
 Tate Modern: International modern and contemporary art
Tate Modern is a major gallery of modern art and contemporary art from 1900.
Tate Modern presents a major new festival of live events, including art, film, music, dance, family activities, food stalls and one-off late night performances by Courtney Pine, DJ Spooky, The Real Tuesday Weld and Ryoji Ikeda, alva noto and Robert Henke.
To prepare for the opening, Tate Modern will be closed to the public on 22 May from 10.00 until 14.00.
www.tate.org.uk /modern   (217 words)

  
 CityPass : New York ~ The Museum of Modern Art
MoMA's collection includes Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night, and Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, along with more recent works by the greatest artists of our time.
The museum also maintains an active schedule of exhibitions.
MoMA may be more crowded on Fridays from 4:00pm to 8:00pm when the museum is free to the public.
www.citypass.com /attraction/moma.html?id=UrZrU7qP   (159 words)

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