MOMA

NYC contemporary gallery

MOMA is an acronym for the Museum of Modern Art, the influential New York City institution founded in 1929 that houses one of the world's most significant collections of modern and contemporary art.

The museum's holdings include iconic works like Picasso's *Les Demoiselles d'Avignon* and Van Gogh's *Starry Night*.

We spent the afternoon at MOMA looking at the sculpture garden.

collection

Starry Night

Swirling celestial landscape painting

film archive · photography · prints · drawings · media · acquisitions · holdings · masterworks · donation · bequest

museum

contemporary

Of the present age

New York · collection · curator · installation · Picasso · Warhol · sculpture garden · permanent collection · retrospective · admission

architecture

building

Enclosed roofed structure

atrium · design · midtown · glass · steel · lobby · floors · wings · skylight · modernist

experience

visit

Trip to see another

tour · membership · restaurant · opening · gala · free admission · queue · audio tour · guided tour · weekend

Opposites
art historical focus

MOMAThe Louvre

Vast Parisian art repository

National Gallery · British Museum · Vatican Museums · Rijksmuseum · natural history museum

accessibility/elitism

MOMAanti-art

Rejection of conventional aesthetics

street art · Dada · graffiti

cultural accessibility

MOMAkitsch

Tasteless, garish art

velvet paintings

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G