With its 40,000-square-foot expansion, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the new MoMA will feature a full reinstallation of its permanent collection, mingling works of different mediums and including artists from an increased diversity of backgrounds in its chronology of modern art. A new studio for performance, moving image and sound works will open amid the collection galleries, with residencies by artists including Okwui Okpokwasili. Inaugural exhibitions include a display of Latin American abstraction from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift, a retrospective of Betye Saar’s work, and an installation of paintings by Michael Armitage in the new Projects Gallery on the museum’s ground floor – the first instalment of a collaboration with the Studio Museum in Harlem (which remains closed in preparation for its move to a new building). Find out more from MoMA’s website.
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View of the restored Bauhaus staircase, with Oskar Schlemmer’s Bauhaus Staircase (1932). Photo: Iwan Baan
Rending of exterior view of the Museum of Modern Art on 53rd Street. © 2017 Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Untitled (1954), María Freire. Museum of Modern Art, New York
Chromatic Rhythms III (1949), Alfredo Hlito. Museum of Modern Art, New York
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