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...notion of installing a collection in a thematic, multimedia way has been percolating at least since New York City's Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) flirted briefly with the approach, beginning in 1999 with the show "ModernStarts." As a way to summarize the nonlinear development of 20th century art, MOMA divided its extensive collection into three categories: People, Places and Things. Critics called the series handsome and provocative, as well as simplistic and awful. It was also the final show in the old MOMA building and a laboratory for installations in the new one, an elegant $425 million structure that...
...positive, saying that the huge spaces in Tate Modern's home, a former power station, presented an opportunity "to explore the strengths of the collection." Those experiments were being closely watched at the Pompidou, France's National Museum of Modern Art. While appreciating their thematic approaches, Grenier felt that MOMA and Tate had simply given updated names to academic definitions. "The organization was still the same," she says. "It was portrait, it was landscape, it was history. And it was not really satisfactory...
...debate continues. When the new MOMA opened, it chose to abandon themes and present its painting and sculpture collections in a mainly chronological way. Some critics complained that the new layout was disappointingly conservative, more mausoleum than museum. "One of the lessons of 'ModernStarts' was the pleasure of seeing multiple options emerging more or less simultaneously in early Modernism," says John Elderfield, chief curator of painting and sculpture. "But another was the loss of seeing the integrity and the unfolding of individual achievements and artistic movements." As for Tate Modern, it is planning to rehang its entire permanent collection next...
...stance has ensured Botero's continuing commercial success but earned him plenty of detractors, who accuse him of endlessly repeating a single well-honed gimmick. While Botero's work appears in museums around the world, he has drawn fire from some contemporary art curators. The Museum of Modern Art (moma) in New York City, for example, does not display the Botero paintings and drawings it owns. Joe La Placa, London-based director of artnet.com, a modern-art database, says that for years Botero was regarded as "an innovator." Now, La Placa believes his current work is "a pale imitation...
...Limpert says that today’s chief executives are a different breed from those he worked with at the MoMA 30 years...