"MoMA 2000: Modern Starts".MUSEUM OF MODERN ART "Modern Starts" is the first of three Y2K See Y2K problem and Y2K compliant. Y2K - Year 2000 exhibitions re-presenting the history of modern art as told by MOMA's collection. based on a historicist premise (1880-1920), the show's structure nonetheless deflects history's arrow: Curator John Elderfield John Elderfield is a leading art historian and chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2005, Time Magazine included Elderfield on their list of the 100 most influential people of 2005. et al. divide the works not chronologically but thematically, into "People," "Places," and "Things." Perverse, one might ask, to emphasize representational rep·re·sen·ta·tion·al adj. Of or relating to representation, especially to realistic graphic representation. rep themes at a time when the medium itself was getting the upper hand? If the modernist narratives so bound up with MoMA'S history emerge from this revitalizing rearrangement re·ar·range tr.v. re·ar·ranged, re·ar·rang·ing, re·ar·rang·es To change the arrangement of. re more stirred than shaken, Elderfield's look at the opening chapter should nevertheless offer up myriad local charms and surprises. After all, he's got plenty to work with. Oct. 7, 1999-Mar. 14, 2000. |
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