Modern and Contemporary Art
Paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, and design objects from 1890 to the present — from Cézanne and Picasso to postwar abstraction and contemporary practice.
The encyclopedic museum, catching up to its own century.
n institution built to enshrine the past faced an awkward question as the twentieth century arrived: what to do with the art being made now, which often defined itself by rejecting everything the museum stood for. The answer was to collect it anyway.
Cézanne's late structure hardens into Picasso; Pollock pours the picture onto the floor; Matisse lets color do the drawing — and the canon quietly absorbs every rebel who set out to end it. The same walls that hold five thousand years now hold the artists who tried to start from zero.
