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COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS

Ongoing
The Museum of Modern Art

MoMA’s 2019 opening collection presentation commissions, and programs that encourage debate
highlights the creative affinities and frictions produced and discovery.
by displaying painting, sculpture, architecture,
design, photography, media, performance, film, and The fifth-, fourth-, and second-floor collection
works on paper together. Conceived and installed by galleries offer a deeper experience of art through all
cross-departmental teams of curators at all levels mediums and by artists from more diverse geographies
of seniority, the presentation foregrounds complex and backgrounds than ever before. A general
relationships among works of art and leverages the chronological spine unites the three floors and serves
new architecture to encourage many possible routes as a touchstone of continuity for visitors. Individual
through the galleries. A new curatorial generation galleries, some of which will be medium-specific, delve
will continually renew the experience of the into presentations of art and ideas that only MoMA’s
Museum through installations and exhibitions, artist collection can offer.

Recognizing that there is no single or complete history
of modern and contemporary art, the Museum will
systematically rotate and reinstall one-third of these
collection galleries every six months. By 2021, MoMA
will have re-choreographed each of its galleries across
the fifth, fourth, and second floors - and will constantly
renew the presentation.
Installation view of Around Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (Gallery 503), The
Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2019 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo:
Heidi Bohnenkamp

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