MoMA And The Corporate Art

The Museum of Modern Art presnts a show of art donated to the museum by corporations. Roberta Smith isn’t impressed. “Not a good sign, you might say. It certainly deflates the heightened commitment to cutting-edge art that the Modern so emphatically telegraphed with its new design and distribution of display space.” This is a stopgap show thrown together without a soul. “With the majority of the art dating from the late 1970’s to the early 90’s, the show feels redundant and familiar, as if it were all purchased inside a few square blocks of SoHo during the last art boom.”