Coney Island: A Museum Of Modern Art: a new museum for modern art, a terrific book by Gary Indiana, captures the spirit of the old Coney Island. Indiana is an artist and a writer, and Coney Island is about both art and amusement parks. The two were closely related in Coney Island’s heyday as an urban playground.
Indiana’s book is full of fine writing about the park and its rides—and about many other subjects too, like the freaks who used to work there and the writers who made it into a kind of mythic place. But this is not just a nostalgic piece of writing; it’s also a serious exploration of what it means to make art, which has turned out to be one of the most important questions in our time.
The art that Indiana writes about was once called “outsider art,” but that seems like another way of saying “bad art,” so instead he calls it “para-art.” Para-artists are outsiders not because they’re bad but because they’re on their own, doing something different from what everyone else is doing. The reason we need para-artists is that they can tell us things that other artists can’t. Conventional artists are too close to what they
It is a museum of modern art, but not in the manner of the Museum of Modern Art. The Museum of Modern Art was created to be a temple for the worship of art. This new museum is not. It is a place to experience art, to learn about it and discuss it with others. It takes its place in the continuum that begins with the cave paintings at Lascaux, continues through the Renaissance galleries of Florence and Venice, and blossoms today in our museums of modern art.
It’s hard to imagine a Coney Island without a museum dedicated to the pinnacle of Western civilization — European art from Giotto to Picasso. And yet that’s how it started out: as an amusement park with a Ferris wheel, dance halls, freak shows and sideshows. As these faded or disappeared, it became easier for us to imagine Coney Island as we remember it today — as something like an amusement park with sideshows — than it is for us to imagine what preceded them: an art colony with dance halls and freak shows.*
*From “The Wonder Show,” by Alexandra Lange (New York Times Magazine, March 27).
*Coney Island did have its own free-standing museum until 1903; it was
In the late 1960s, a group of artists and intellectuals, including Donald Judd, Robert Smithson, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris and others proposed the creation of a Museum of Modern Art for the area. They petitioned Mayor Lindsay to support the creation of such an institution for the area. In 1969 Coney Island was selected as the site for New York City’s new contemporary art museum, which was called The New Museum of Contemporary Art.
The museum closed in 1997 due to lack of funding. It re-opened in 2001 under its original name: Museum Of Modern Art, Coney Island.*
The museum is located within walking distance from two subway stations–the Q train at Stillwell Avenue* and the D train at Surf Avenue.*
The museum holds several exhibits each year. In addition to its permanent collection, it also hosts one-time or short term exhibits that are often created by local artists.
A museum of modern art that’s on Coney Island, Brooklyn; the first American art museum devoted exclusively to modernism. The building is designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, who also designed the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis.
Tate Modern was built as a modern art museum with no permanent collection. Artists like Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, and Gilbert & George all have shows there. The artists are able to change their exhibits whenever they want. They leave their works behind when they’re done and other artists come in and use them or do something different with them. The idea is that the art moves around through time and space.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has a building on 53rd Street in New York City filled with paintings and sculptures by famous artists like Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, and Georgia O’Keeffe. MoMA also has a sculpture garden across the street from the building.
Not all of the paintings at MoMA are about modern life. Some paintings are about history or stories from old movies and plays or fairy tales. But most of them are about modern life – like cars, planes, big cities, jazz music, rock
The Museum of Modern Art, which is opening an outpost on Coney Island in the summer, has always been a place where the avant-garde goes to escape into the mainstream.
When the museum was founded, in 1929, it was a haven for the European avant-garde that had been expelled from its other sanctuaries: Paris after World War I and Russia after the Bolshevik revolution.
When MoMA outgrew its first Manhattan location, in 1939, it moved to Midtown, where it became one of the city’s leading art museums. But it kept its downtown branch open throughout World War II and eventually became a second home to postwar American artists who were shunned by mainstream museums. It has continued to support them in exile.
In 1959 the museum opened a branch in Queens; its latest extension is now replacing that branch with a new building on land that was intended for a golf course but never built.* The main branch will still be in Midtown; this one will be dedicated to contemporary art.
*The original plan was interrupted by Robert Moses’s master plan for Coney Island. Moses wanted to build highways and housing on the site of the golf course. He died before he could do so, but his plan was carried out
The Museum of Modern Art in New York City is a very large and impressive museum. It features a collection of art that stretches all the way from the Renaissance to the present day, including paintings, photography, sculpture, and more. People who visit the museum may have the opportunity to see many famous works of art.
Of course, not everyone likes modern art. Many people find some of it simply shocking and offensive. But even those who don’t like it can appreciate it as an important part of our culture at large. Modern art is controversial, but it’s a big part of what makes our culture interesting and exciting.
The new building for the Museum of Modern Art opened in 2004, just across the street from its old location on 53rd Street in Manhattan, New York City. The new building has three floors of galleries for modern art as well as a gift shop and a café on the first floor. There’s also a rooftop garden on top for visitors to enjoy views of Manhattan from above. Visitors can get to the museum by taking the subway or walking from other areas in Manhattan or by driving to one of several parking garages nearby that are open to visitors.
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The Museum of Modern Art has announced plans to build a new museum in Midtown, on the East River, scheduled to open in 2015. The new building, designed by the architect Yoshio Taniguchi, will absorb the museum’s current outpost at 11 West 53rd Street and a neighboring building owned by Cooper Union.
It is to be called the International Studio and Curatorial Program, or ISCP. (The name is intended to emphasize that the museum will not house only American art.)”
