THE NEWTONS VISIT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NYC

Visiting the MoMA was one of the proposals of Isa and Yamina Newton, and The Grandma accepted it.

 

The Newtons have visited this wonderful museum today, and they have enjoyed an unforgettable day between some of the most spectacular art works of the world.

Before visiting the MoMA, the family have been studying some English grammar. They have chosen There is/There are.

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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of the largest and most influential museums of modern art in the world.

MoMA's collection offers an overview of modern and contemporary art, including works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books and artist's books, film, and electronic media.

The MoMA Library includes approximately 300,000 books and exhibition catalogs, more than 1,000 periodical titles, and more than 40,000 files of ephemera about individual artists and groups. The archives hold primary source material related to the history of modern and contemporary art.

It attracted 706,060 visitors in 2020, a drop of sixty-five percent from 2019, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It ranked twenty-fifth on the list of most visited art museums in the world in 2020.

The idea for the Museum of Modern Art was developed in 1929 primarily by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, wife of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and two of her friends, Lillie P. Bliss and Mary Quinn Sullivan.

They became known variously as the Ladies or the adamantine ladies. They rented modest quarters for the new museum in the Heckscher Building at 730 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, and it opened to the public on November 7, 1929, nine days after the Wall Street Crash.

The Museum of Modern Art closed for another round of major renovations from June to October 2019.

Upon reopening on October 21, 2019, MoMA added 4,400 m2 of gallery space, and its total floor area was 65,800 m2.

The expansion and refurbishment was overseen by the architectural firm of Diller Scofidio+Renfro.

The institution began offering free online classes in April 2014.

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Art is what you can get away with.

Andy Warhol