It has been a long time since I saw museumgoers as fully engaged as the crowds moving through “Inventing Abstraction: 1910-1925,” the visual and intellectual banquet at the Museum of Modern Art this winter. Visitors are wide-eyed, attentive, quietly exhilarated. And why not? They are having the kind of full-out artistic experience on which the Museum of Modern Art built its legendary reputation, but which it has rarely managed to produce in recent years.
The Moma's "inventing Abstraction" Is Exhilirating, Challenging, And Completely Wrong
Jed Perl, The New Republic
Fri, 01/18/2013 - 10:00pm
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