MoMA’s Growth Management Act

The new MoMA is so much larger, it has reinvented itself. But this very ambitious museum has a problem. “If it continues adventurously to acquire new works, it will soon run out of space —as, in fact, it already has. Yet no other American museum is so generously committed and dedicated to continuing to present international developments in contemporary art. It is clear that selling off valuable parts of the basic collection to make room for novelties, however promising or prestigious, is a form of vandalism. As it now stands, the greater part of the collection should, by moral right, be accorded public landmark status.”