MoMA only seems to know how to present its collection up to 1970.
This is the graphic that I drew last week to describe a certain version (Museum of Modern Art’s) of 20th Century Art and its timeline. Note, after 1960, with the emergence of minimalism and pop, MoMA’s central thrust is lost. The museum’s collection is based around the idea that Cezanne influenced Matisse and Picasso and they, in turn, influenced post-war American Abstract expressionism (Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning). After that, they seem lost. To some extent, Condo, Bidlo, Basquiat pick up this thread in 1985.
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