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for the rest of the room, as it centralizes the conversation the question “how should modern art be exhibited?” Many
around new design and technology and also highlights how believed that the radically new forms of early-20th-century art
women’s roles within the home were being reconceived. In required strikingly new types of spaces in which they would
light of the centennial anniversary of the Bauhaus’s opening, be encountered by the public. Proposals ranged dramatically,
there is a strong emphasis on material produced by faculty and from the scale of the cabinet to the scale of the tower. Some
students of the landmark school, including some key works architects and exhibition designers carefully choreographed
by László Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee, Marianne Brandt, Marcel the trajectory and even posture of visitors, while others
Breuer, Mies van der Rohe, Lilly Reich, Lucia Moholy, and Vasily created loosely structured, expansive spaces that encouraged
Kandinsky. serendipitous discoveries and open-ended associations
Also on view will be works related to the aftermath of the between works.
Russian Revolution, including drawings by El Lissitsky and On the occasion of MoMA’s most recent expansion,
Kazimir Malevich; Dziga Vertov’s first sound film, Enthusiasm these concepts showcase the differing ways in which the
(1931), which focuses on the mechanistic aspect of human architecture of museums, galleries, and exhibitions affects
labor under Stalin’s first Five-Year Plan; and posters designed how art is experienced. Models and drawings from Frank
by Gustav Klutsis and Elizaveta Ignatovich. Lloyd Wright, Herbert Bayer, and Heinz Loew are displayed
adjacent to Philip Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone’s design
Architecture for Modern Art, located on the Museum’s fifth for MoMA’s first purpose-built building at 11 West 53rd Street.
floor, in the Yoshio Taniguchi–designed Rockefeller Building, Finally, an installation of multipurpose furniture designed by
looks back at architecture designed specifically to answer Frederick Kiesler for Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of This Century

Installation view of Energy, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2019 The
Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Heidi Bohnenkam

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