For the last four months, one of the best known art institutions in the country, the Museum of Modern Art has been closed as part of an approximately $450 million renovation.
Yesterday, it reopened to the general public.
The museum, on West 53rd Street, is bigger. They’ve added about 47,000 additional square feet.
[MoMA is bigger and more demanding. But there’s more fun, and a sense of serendipity.]
Here is what to expect, according to Jason Farago, an art critic for The Times:
Tell me the three collection galleries I absolutely cannot miss.
Gallery 503 features the juxtaposition of Pablo Picasso with two later American artists, Louise Bourgeois and Faith Ringgold.
In Gallery 406B you’ll find Henri Matisse’s pulse-quickening “Swimming Pool,” whose fragile blue cutouts can only be shown rarely.
Photo Credit: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Jeenah Moon for The New York Times
Oct 21, 2019
