MoMA Now: Highlights from The Museum of Modern Art, New York - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1633451003 ISBN 13: 9781633451001

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2019

Synopsis

Published as a large-format hardcover to celebrate the museum’s 90th anniversary and the October 2019 opening of the new MoMA after its historic expansion

In October 2019, the Museum of Modern Art celebrates its 90th anniversary with the reopening of its extensively renovated and expanded midtown campus. Published to accompany the reopening, MoMA Now is an enlarged and expanded edition of MoMA Highlights, and presents a rich chronological overview of the art of the past 150 years, culled from the Museum’s permanent collection of almost 200,000 objects across 6 curatorial departments. Beginning with a photograph made around 1867 and concluding in 2017, with an Oscar-nominated documentary film, the book introduces readers to some of the most beloved artworks in the museum’s collection―iconic works by Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Frida Kahlo and Andy Warhol, among many others―as well as lesser-known but equally fascinating and significant objects of art, architecture and design from around the world.
MoMA Now celebrates the richness of the Museum’s collection and the diversity of issues and ideas embraced today. The book is not meant to be a comprehensive overview, nor to provide a definitive statement on the Museum’s collection. On the contrary, it is designed to explore the complexity and variety of possibilities that exist within the collection, and to suggest new and imaginative ways of understanding the works of art that constitute it. Featuring 170 works not included in earlier editions, including a greater representation of works by women, artists of color, and artists from around the world, this new iteration is both a record of the Museum’s past and a statement in anticipation of an exciting future.

About this title

About the Author

Glenn D. Lowryis Director of The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Quentin Bajac is French museum curator and art historian specialising in the history of photography.

Christophe Cherix is Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Stuart Comer is Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Rajendra Roy is Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Martino Stierli is Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Ann Temkin is Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1633451003
• ISBN 13: 9781633451001
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 424