Cultural Relics Collected by new york Museum of Modern Art

At present, the Museum of Modern Art has more than 6.5438+0.5 million personal works, more than 20,000 movies and 4 million movie stills. The most famous works include:

Van Gogh: starry night

Picasso: The Maiden of Vignon.

Dali: Eternity of Memory

Monet: Water lilies

Mathis: Dance.

Mondriaan: Broadway Jazz.

Cezanne: Swimmer

Carol: A self-portrait of a broken hair.

The museum also houses many classic works of modern American artists, such as Jackson Pollock, George Ou Jifu, Cindy Sherman, Edward Huo Po, Andy Warch, Jean Michel Busch, Cenk Cross, Rafe baggs and Jasper Johns.

The Museum of Modern Art is also an important institution that includes photography in its collection. Under the auspices of edward steichen, the first director of photography department, he collected many masterpieces of news photography and artistic photography, which were expanded by John Zakowski, and films and film stills were also included in the collection, making this museum an important place for American films and film collections.

The museum also began to collect design works, including Noguchi's design products, chairs and lamps designed by george nelson, Paul Laszlo and Ames. The collection range is quite wide, from the first ball bearing with automatic angle adjustment to a Bell 47D 1 helicopter.

After 2000, the Museum of Modern Art began to build a new building, because its collection increased greatly and its original site needed to be renovated. The museum was closed on May 2, 20021,and some of its collections were transferred to an old staple food factory in Long Island City, Queens, which was called MoMA QNS. 20041October 20th, the new museum 165438+ designed by Japanese architect Yoshimori Taniguchi was opened, and the entrance fee was raised from 12 USD to 20 RMB, which caused great controversy. Making it one of the most expensive museums in new york. Fortunately, the museum sponsored by the American Target chain is still open to visitors free of charge after 4 pm every Friday. When the museum opened, Taniguchi Jisen's works were also widely criticized. In addition to criticizing the modern architecture whose appearance is just well-behaved, many people are also dissatisfied with the moving line in the museum.

After the appearance of granite and glass buildings in the new museum is completed, the number of visitors to the museum is about 2.5 million per year, which is much higher than the number of 6.5438+0.5 million in the previous year. Glenn Laurie, the current curator, hopes that the number of tourists will remain at 2654.38+500,000.

In 2000, the Museum of Modern Art announced an alliance with the British Ted Art Museum, and jointly invested in establishing a large-scale website dedicated to modern art..