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AUTOMANIA

July 4, 2021-January 2, 2022
The Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art presents Automania, an
exhibition that investigates the conflicted feelings
- compulsion, fixation, desire, and rage - that
developed in response to cars and car culture in the
20th century. This two-part exhibition consists of
presentations in the third-floor galleries and first-
floor lobby and Sculpture Garden, showcasing a total Andy Warhol. Orange Car Crash Fourteen Times. 1963. Silkscreen ink on
of nine cars from the Museum’s collection. Taking its synthetic polymer paint on two canvases, 8'9 7/8" x 13' 8 1/8" (268.9 x 416.9
cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Philip Johnson. © 2019 Andy
name from the 1964 Oscar-nominated animation by Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts /Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Halas and Batchelor, Automania examines the car as
a modern industrial product, transportation innovator,
and style icon, as well as the generator of fatalities, The Museum of Modern Art presents Automania, an
traffic-choked environments, and ecological disaster exhibition that investigates the conflicted feelings
in the oil age. - compulsion, fixation, desire, and rage - that
developed in response to cars and car culture in
Margaret Bourke-White. Chrysler Corporation. 1932. Gelatin silver print, 12 7/8 the 20th century. This two-part exhibition consists
x 9″ (32.7 x 22.8 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the artist. of presentations in the third-floor galleries (July
© 2019 Estate of Margaret Bourke-White/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
4, 2021-January 2, 2022) and first-floor lobby
and Sculpture Garden (July 4 -October 10, 2021),
showcasing a total of nine cars from the Museum’s
collection. Taking its name from the 1964 Oscar-
nominated animation by Halas and Batchelor,
Automania examines the car as a modern industrial
product, transportation innovator, and style icon,
as well as the generator of fatalities, traffic-choked
environments, and ecological disaster in the oil age.
Automania is organized by Juliet Kinchin, former
Curator; Paul Galloway, Collection Specialist; and
Andrew Gardner, Curatorial Assistant, Department of
Architecture and Design.

Automania explores the ways in which motor vehicles
reshaped how people lived, worked, and enjoyed
themselves over the course of the 20th century,
and the continuing positive and negative imprint
on the design and organization of today’s built
environment. The thirdfloor gallery presentation
brings together varied materials largely drawn from
the Museum’s collection, including cars, car parts,
architectural models, films, photographs, posters,
paintings, and sculptures. The wide range of works
on view include Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec’s 1898
print L’Automobiliste, Lily Reich’s 1930s designs for
a tubular-steel car seat, photographs of American

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