Word: barres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than MOMA, as this 55-year-old institution has long been known. One cannot imagine New York City, or modernism itself, without it. More than any other museum in the world, MOMA is identified with its subject and defines its history. It was not the intention of Alfred Barr (1902-1981), the first director and ideological shaper of the museum, to create a Louvre for something that seemed, in 1929, as vulnerable and problematic as modern art. Nevertheless, that was what happened. One cannot open a periodical without being told, yet again, that modernism is our institutional culture-a point...
...Before Barr, the idea of dedicating a whole museum to modernism as a culture, embracing design, photography, architecture and film, as well as painting and sculpture, had not emerged. At its origins, MOMA was intended as a constantly unfolding encyclopedia of the new. No institution can remain on that kind of cutting edge forever, and by the 1970s MOMA was muffled in its own success. All its departments had well-funded rivals in museums across the country. By 1980 modern art was an industry, involving hundreds of thousands of people. In the face of such expansion, MOMA became more preoccupied...
...argues, a key element in the intentions of modernism itself. Relatively few "classical" modernist paintings-Picasso's Guernica being an obvious exception-were carried out with the sense of public declamation that suffuses the great machines of an earlier age. The natural direction of modern art was inward. Barr had no doubt about that, and his belief in the necessity of intimate rather than ceremonial encounter has been cleanly transmitted from the old to the new museum...
...representatives are Evan T. Barr '85 (Mather); Rosemary E. Basile '85 (Eliot)' Thomas S. Heintzman '86 (Curner); Gregory V. McCurdy '87 (North Yard); and Ford E. O'Neil '85 (Leverett House...
Eight accounting firms, audited financial statements for both Sentinel companies. Said Ray Le Flore, an attorney for Barr Bros., a New York bond dealer that invested some $600,000 with Sentinel: "The offering circular would never have caught the attention of anybody at this level but for the good company in which it was viewed...