MoMA’s Special Exhibitions
A couple weeks ago I briefly outlined the permanent collection at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, but the MoMA has some fantastic special exhibits that are worth checking out before they end:
Focus: Ellsworth Kelly Featuring thirteen paintings and drawings, including three never-before-seen recent acquisitions, this exhibit is a single-gallery installation that spans thirty-four feet of wall space. From the minimalist school, Kelly focuses on hard-edge and color-field painting. Until March 3, 2008
Lucian Freud: The Painter’s Etchings Freud is considered to be one of the foremost figurative artists working today. Best known as a painter, he has made a name for himself in the work of etching since rediscovering the medium in the 1980s. The exhibit has seventy-five etching works as well as some of Freud’s paintings. Until March 10, 2008
75 Years of Architecture at MoMA This exhibition of drawings and models from the MoMA’s Department of Architecture examines themes in the history of modern architecture. Works date from 1900 to 1994. Until March 10, 2008
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now Focusing on the pluralism of much modern art dating from the 1970s to today. This exhibit features three galleries that examine the "coexisting attitudes" of today’s art. "The first section is devoted to formal and conceptual approaches to abstraction. The next deals with the thematic issue of mutability, in which change and memory play important roles. The final area is devoted to art that provokes, whether ironic, humorous, outrageous, or disturbing." Until July 28, 2008
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