THE ART MUSEUM IN MODERN TIMES

His story starts with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, one of the first to focus squarely on the art of the present. When it op ened in 1939, MoMAs boldly modernist building represented a stark riposte to the neoclassicism of most earlier museums. From there, Saumarez Smith embarks on an odyssey to explore fortyone museums across the globe, including Tate Modern in London, the Getty Cente r in Los Angeles, the Benesse House Museum on the Japanese island of Naoshima, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris as well as the Pom pidous new...[Read more]