THE FOSTERS, THE PATRONS OF THE NEW MOCO MUSEUM

Today, The Fosters and The Grandma have received wonderful news from Marta Foster, who is following her dream as a prospector.

The Fosters are the patrons of the new Moco Museum in London, and they have planned how this amazing cultural place is going to be.

Before, the family has practised some English grammar with the Relative Pronouns (Who/Which/That), and have explained their future plans to Marta.

Finally, they have been reading Oscar Wilde's The Ghost of Canterville.

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The Moco Museum (Modern Contemporary Museum) is an independent museum located in Amsterdam and Barcelona, dedicated to exhibiting modern and contemporary art. 

The museum was founded with the mission of attracting broader and younger audiences, and making art accessible to the public.

Moco Museum in Amsterdam is situated on Museumplein, in the historic Villa Alsberg, a townhouse designed in 1904 by Eduard Cuypers the nephew of Pierre Cuypers, designer of Amsterdam Central Station and the Rijksmuseum. The townhouse was one of the first privately owned residencies on Museumplein and remained so until 1939. Moco Museum opened its doors in April 2016.

Moco Museum in El Born, Barcelona is in the historic Palau Cervelló-Giudice, formerly the private residence of the noble Cervelló family until the 18th century. The building incorporates parts of a previous construction from the 15th century, evidenced by the interior courtyard, arched staircase with columns, capitals, and Renaissance-type mouldings. Furthermore, Palau Cervelló displays an impressive Gothic facade entryway.

Plans to open a new outlet in London, UK was approved on 3 October 2023.

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Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that continue the challenging of boundaries that was already well underway in the 20th century.

Diverse and eclectic, contemporary art as a whole is distinguished by the very lack of a uniform, organising principle, ideology, or -ism. Contemporary art is part of a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, family, community, and nationality.

In vernacular English, modern and contemporary are synonyms, resulting in some conflation and confusion of the terms modern art and contemporary art by non-specialists.

Some define contemporary art as art produced within our lifetime, recognising that lifetimes and life spans vary. However, there is a recognition that this generic definition is subject to specialized limitations.

The classification of contemporary art as a special type of art, rather than a general adjectival phrase, goes back to the beginnings of Modernism in the English-speaking world. In London, the Contemporary Art Society was founded in 1910 by the critic Roger Fry and others, as a private society for buying works of art to place in public museums.

A number of other institutions using the term were founded in the 1930s, such as in 1938 the Contemporary Art Society of Adelaide, Australia, and an increasing number after 1945. Many, like the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston changed their names from ones using Modern art in this period, as Modernism became defined as a historical art movement, and much modern art ceased to be contemporary.

The definition of what is contemporary is naturally always on the move, anchored in the present with a start date that moves forward, and the works the Contemporary Art Society bought in 1910 could no longer be described as contemporary.

Contemporary artwork is characterised by diversity: diversity of material, of form, of subject matter, and even time periods. It is distinguished by the very lack of a uniform organizing principle, ideology, or - ism that is seen in many other art periods and movements.

The focus of Modernism is self-referential. Impressionism looks at our perception of a moment through light and color, as opposed to the attempt to reflect stark reality in Realism. Contemporary art, on the other hand, does not have one, single objective or point of view, so it can be contradictory and open-ended.

There are nonetheless several common themes that have appeared in contemporary works, such as identity politics, the body, globalization and migration, technology, contemporary society and culture, time and memory, and institutional and political critique.

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 I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art;
I don’t do that so much anymore.

Bansky