{"id":137,"date":"2012-11-10T22:27:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T03:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/?p=137"},"modified":"2018-08-12T12:49:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T16:49:33","slug":"moma-the-museum-of-modern-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/2012\/11\/10\/moma-the-museum-of-modern-art\/","title":{"rendered":"The Museum of Modern Art – MoMA"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MoMA-B&W\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Marron<\/a><\/p>\n

The Donald B. and Catherine C.\u00a0Marron Atrium<\/em><\/p>\n

The Museum of Modern Art<\/strong>\u00a0(MoMA<\/strong>) is an\u00a0art museum<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Midtown<\/a>\u00a0Manhattan<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0New York City<\/a>, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting\u00a0modernist art<\/a>, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world.\u00a0The museum’s collection offers an overview of modern and contemporary art,\u00a0including works of\u00a0architecture<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0design<\/a>,\u00a0drawings<\/a>,\u00a0painting<\/a>,\u00a0sculpture<\/a>,\u00a0photography<\/a>,
\nprints<\/a>,\u00a0illustrated books<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0artist’s books<\/a>,\u00a0film<\/a>, and\u00a0electronic media<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The idea for The Museum of Modern Art was developed in 1928 primarily by\u00a0Abby Aldrich Rockefeller<\/a>\u00a0(wife of\u00a0John D. Rockefeller Jr.<\/a>) and two of her friends,\u00a0Lillie P. Bliss<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Mary Quinn Sullivan<\/a>.\u00a0They became known variously as\u00a0“the Ladies”<\/em>,\u00a0“the daring ladies”<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0“the adamantine ladies”<\/em>. They rented modest quarters for the new museum in the Heckscher Building at 730 Fifth Avenue (corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street) in Manhattan, and it opened to the public on November 7, 1929, nine days after the\u00a0Wall Street Crash<\/a>. Abby had invited\u00a0A. Conger Goodyear<\/a>, the former president of the board of trustees of the\u00a0Albright Art Gallery<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Buffalo, New York<\/a>, to become president of the new museum. Abby became treasurer. At the time, it was America’s premier museum devoted exclusively to modern art, and the first of its kind in Manhattan to exhibit European modernism.
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First housed in six rooms of galleries and offices on the twelfth floor of Manhattan’s Heckscher Building,\u00a0on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, the museum moved into three more temporary locations within the next ten years. Abby’s husband was adamantly opposed to the museum (as well as to modern art itself) and refused to release funds for the venture, which had to be obtained from other sources and resulted in the frequent shifts of location. Nevertheless, he eventually donated the land for the current site of the museum, plus other gifts over time, and thus became in effect one of its greatest benefactors.
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When Abby Rockefeller’s son\u00a0Nelson<\/a>\u00a0was selected by the board of trustees to become its flamboyant president in 1939, at the age of thirty, he became the prime instigator and funder of its publicity, acquisitions and subsequent expansion into new headquarters on 53rd Street. His brother,\u00a0David Rockefeller<\/a>, also joined the museum’s board of trustees, in 1948, and took over the presidency when Nelson took up position as Governor of New York in 1958.<\/p>\n

\"MoMA_Man\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden<\/em><\/p>\n

David subsequently employed the noted architect\u00a0Philip Johnson<\/a>\u00a0to redesign the museum garden and name it in honor of his mother, the\u00a0Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden<\/strong>. He and the\u00a0Rockefeller family<\/a>, in general, have retained a close association with the museum throughout its history, with the\u00a0Rockefeller Brothers Fund<\/a>\u00a0funding the institution since 1947. Both\u00a0David Rockefeller, Jr.<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Sharon Percy Rockefeller<\/a>\u00a0(wife of Senator\u00a0Jay Rockefeller<\/a>) currently sit on the board of trustees. In 1937, MoMA had shifted to offices and basement galleries in the\u00a0Time-Life Building<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Rockefeller Center<\/a>. Its permanent and current home, now renovated, designed in the\u00a0International Style<\/a>\u00a0by the\u00a0modernist<\/a>\u00a0architects Philip Goodwin and\u00a0Edward Durell Stone<\/a>, opened to the public on May 10, 1939, attended by an illustrious company of 6,000 people, and with an opening address via radio from the White House by President\u00a0Franklin D. Roosevelt<\/a>. In 1997 the Japanese architect\u00a0Yoshio Taniguchi<\/a>\u00a0beat out ten other international architects to win the competition to execute the redesign of the museum, which after being closed in Manhattan for a time during the process (a temporary space was opened in\u00a0Long Island City<\/a>,\u00a0Queens<\/a>) reopened in 2004.\u00a0Wish Tree<\/em>,\u00a0Yoko Ono<\/a>‘s installation in the Sculpture Garden (since July 2010), has become very popular with contributions from all over the world.<\/p>\n

MoMA’s midtown location underwent extensive renovations in the early 2000s, closing on May 21, 2002, and reopening to the public in a building redesigned by the\u00a0Japanese<\/a>\u00a0architect<\/a>\u00a0Yoshio Taniguchi<\/a>\u00a0along with\u00a0Kohn Pedersen Fox<\/a>, on November 20, 2004. From June 29, 2002, until September 27, 2004, a portion of its collection was on display in what was dubbed\u00a0MoMA QNS<\/em>, a former\u00a0Swingline<\/a>\u00a0staple factory in\u00a0Long Island City<\/a>,\u00a0Queens<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stair visible from The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium<\/em><\/p>\n

The expansion, including an increase in MoMA\u2019s endowment to cover operating expenses, cost $858 million in total.\u00a0The project nearly doubled the space for MoMA’s exhibitions and programs and features 630,000 square feet (59,000\u00a0m2<\/sup>) of new and redesigned space. The\u00a0Peggy and David Rockefeller Building<\/em>\u00a0on the western portion of the site houses the main exhibition galleries, and\u00a0The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building<\/em>\u00a0on the eastern portion provides over five times more space for classrooms, auditoriums, teacher training workshops, and the museum’s expanded Library and Archives. These two buildings frame the enlarged\u00a0Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden.<\/em><\/p>\n

The architecture of the renovation is controversial. At its opening, some critics thought that Taniguchi’s design was a fine example of contemporary architecture, while many others were extremely displeased with certain aspects of the design, such as the flow of the space.<\/sup>
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\"MoMA-Bridge\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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