What the New MoMA Leaves Out.

MUSEUM of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.); MODERNISM (Art); SMITH, Roberta; FOSTER, Hal; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; EDGEWORTH expansions; 21ST century art

The article discusses the newly revamped Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) reopened in October, 2020. Topics include the expansion opens a second round of greatness, for the New York Times by Roberta Smith; Hal Foster, writing in the London Review of Books, praises the expansion for complicating "the usual stories of modernist and contemporary art with a deepened attention to different cultural traditions as well as key technological transformations; and The expansion lacks an adequate guiding idea concerning art in general and modern art in particular.