The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

The MoMA

• Founded in 1929, The Museum of Modern Art in midtown Manhattan was the first museum devoted to the modern era.
• MoMA’s unparalleled collection offers a comprehensive, panoramic overview of modern and contemporary art, from the innovative European painting and sculpture of the 1880s to today’s film, design, and performance art.
• “The greatest collection of modern art in the world” — The New York Times

Galleries

• Collection highlights include Claude Monet’s Water Lilies, Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night, Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Henri Matisse’s Dance (I), and Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans, along with more recent works by Andy Warhol, Elizabeth Murray, Cindy Sherman, and many others.
• The Museum presents an active schedule of extraordinary modern and contemporary art exhibitions.
• The new MoMA building opened in 2004. Designed by architect Yoshio Taniguchi, it nearly doubled the space for the Museum’s exhibitions and programs.

The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden

• An oasis in midtown Manhattan, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden combines masterworks of modern sculpture with fountains and seasonal plantings.
• MoMA Nights on Thursdays in July and August: Late hours include eclectic musical performances and a cash bar in the Sculpture Garden. Event schedule at moma.org. (Year-round, the Museum also stays open late with MoMA Nights on the first Thursday of every month.)
• Summergarden, MoMA’s long-running free Sunday series in the summer, presents classical and jazz concerts in the Sculpture Garden with musicians from the Juilliard School and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Event schedule at moma.org.

Dining

• MoMA’s selection of dining options are created and operated by Danny Meyer's acclaimed Union Square Hospitality Group.
• The second-floor Cafe 2 serves rustic Italian fare in an informal setting.
• The fifth-floor café Terrace 5 offers a spectacular view of the Sculpture Garden and the midtown skyline.
• Outdoor terrace dining available seasonally. Serves desserts, savory offerings, and cocktails, beer, and wine.
• The Modern (9 W. 53 St.) is a fine-dining restaurant overlooking the Sculpture Garden. Holds one Michelin star and three stars from The New York Times. Info and reservations at (212) 333-1220 or themodernnyc.com.

Retail

• The MoMA Stores offer a sophisticated selection of art reproductions, design objects, book titles, furniture and lighting, jewelry, and much more—including many items represented in the Museum’s design collection.
• Every purchase supports The Museum of Modern Art.
• Shop online at momastore.org.

Campbell's Soup Cans

On permanent display – Included with CityPASS

Like other Pop artists, Warhol used images of already proven appeal to huge audiences. When he first exhibited these canvases—there are thirty-two of them, the number of soup varieties Campbell's then sold—each one simultaneously hung from the wall, like a painting, and stood on a shelf, like groceries in a store.

Andy Warhol. Campbell's Soup Cans. 1962. Synthetic polymer paint on thirty-two canvases. Each canvas 20 x 16" (50.8 x 40.6 cm). Gift of Irving Blum; Nelson A. Rockefeller Bequest, gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. M. Burden, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund, gift of Nina and Gordon Bunshaft in honor of Henry Moore, Lillie P. Bliss Bequest, Philip Johnson Fund, Frances Keech Bequest, gift of Mrs. Bliss Parkinson, and Florence B. Wesley Bequest (all by exchange). (c) 2007 Andy Warhol Foundation / ARS, NY / TM Licensed by Campbell's Soup Co. All rights reserved.

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Picasso: Themes and Variations

March 28-Sept. 6, 2010 – Included with CityPASS

Featuring approximately one hundred works, this exhibition explores Picasso’s creative process through the medium of printmaking, tracing his development from the early years of the twentieth century, with depictions of itinerant circus performers in the Blue and Rose periods, to his discovery of Cubism.

Pablo Picasso. The Bull, state VII (Le Taureau). December 26, 1945. Lithograph. Composition 12 x 17 1/2" (30.5 x 44.4 cm). Sheet 12 15/16 x 17 1/2" (32 x 44.4 cm). The Museum of Modern Art. Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman Fund. © 2009 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now

May 5-August 16, 2010 – Included with CityPASS

This exhibition presents a dozen international artists whose abstract work features idiosyncratic, organic forms, materials that appear to be malleable and pliable, craft-based techniques, and, in many cases, an engagement with gender and sexuality. Drawn from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, the installation features drawings, prints, books, and sculptures by artists including Louise Bourgeois, Gego, Mona Hatoum, Yayoi Kusama, Anna Maria Maiolino, and Zarina. New acquisitions on view for the first time include Louise Bourgeois’s drawing Femme Maison (1947), sculptures, prints, and drawings by Alina Szapocznikow, and drawings and prints by Atsuko Tanaka.

Atsuku Tanaka. Untitled. 1956. Watercolor and felt-tip pen on paper, 42 7/8 x 30 3/8" (108.9 x 77.2 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchased with funds provided by the Edward John Noble Foundation, Frances Keech Fund, and Committee on Drawings Funds

Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography

May 7, 2010–March 21, 2011 – Included with CityPASS

For much of photography’s 170-year history, women have expanded its roles by experimenting with every aspect of the medium. Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography presents a selection of outstanding photographs by women artists, charting the medium’s history from the dawn of the modern period to the present.

The exhibition also highlights works drawn from a variety of curatorial departments, including Bottoms, a large-scale Fluxus wallpaper by Yoko Ono.

Ilse Bing. Self-Portrait in Mirrors. 1931. Gelatin silver print, 10 1/2 x 12" (26.8 x 30.8 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Joseph G. Mayer Fund. © 2010 The Ilse Bing Estate/Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery

Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917

July 18-Oct. 11, 2010 – Included with CityPASS

In the time between Henri Matisse's return from Morocco in 1913 and his departure for Nice in 1917, the artist produced some of the most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic works of his career. Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 moves beyond the surface of these paintings to examine their physical production and the essential context of Matisse's studio practice.

Timed tickets are required for this exhibition and must be redeemed when presenting your CityPASS. A limited number of timed-entry tickets will be available each day on a first-come, first-served basis.

Henri Matisse. Bathers by a River. 1909–10, 1913, 1916–17. Oil on canvas. 102 1/2 x 154 3/16" (260 x 392 cm). The Art Institute of Chicago, Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection. © 2010 Succession H. Matisse/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York