Retelling MoMA

Curators at the Museum of Modern Art struggles to retell the story of their collection in the new spaces of their new home. “It is a daunting task: to use the museum’s vast collection to tell the history of modern art in new and unfamiliar galleries. Not only has the museum’s collection grown and changed enormously since the institution’s founding in 1929, but so has the way that people look at art. We’re talking to a younger and in many ways better-educated audience but one that is not necessarily more sophisticated”