SFMOMA Rethinks Definition of ‘Modern Art’

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) didn’t just reorganize its permanent collection this spring – it decided to ask some fundamental questions about what can truly be said to constitute ‘modern art’ in the 21st century. “The museum has decided to work more carefully with the permanent collection… ‘partly as a philosophical corrective, to wean the public and the museum from an unrealistic diet of blockbuster shows.'”