INVENTING THE MODERN

Founded in 1929, the Museum of Modern Art owes much of its early success to a number of remarkable women who shaped the future of the institution in its first decades. As founders, patrons, curators and directors of various departments, these figures boldly defied societal norms to launch this radical venture during the depths of the Great Depression. They were fortunate in the freedoms afforded by uncharted territory, because the notion of a museum of modern art was new, there was a conspicuous absence of the professional prerequisit...[Llegir més]