The New MoMA – Modernism As Elevator Music?

It’s been a year since the new Museum of Modern Art opened. Jerry Saltz has come to an unhappy conclusion about the place. “The more I go to the new MOMA—and I’ve been there over 50 times since it reopened a year ago this week—the more I think this crown jewel is becoming a beautiful tomb. At MOMA the unruly juice of art history, the chaos, contradiction, radicality, and rebellion, are being bleached out. Instead, we’re getting the taming of modernism—modernism as elevator music.”