The May/June issue of NGV Magazine is all about the great city that is New York and is inspired by the forthcoming Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art, which provides a unique survey of the Museum’s iconic collection.
‘Despite its implicit heterogeneity, MoMA at NGV is unified by a sense of momentum, of an incessant pulse or current that meters out change over what could be described as ‘the long twentieth century’.
From Dr Miranda Wallace's essay on the exhibition.
‘The result is a room that is full of stories. The taste of the time was for narrative paintings, so the themes displayed reflect the key preoccupations of the nineteenth century, including romance, family, death, landscapes, religion and history.’
Dr Isobel Crombie on the John Schaeffer Gallery.
‘Rirkrit, who splits his time between Chiang Mai, New York, and Berlin, doesn’t really have a studio practice in the traditional sense. His ‘studio’ is wherever he is.’
Architect and writer Aroon Puritat.
‘It was an accessible modernism which placed design at the heart of everyday life and celebrated the beauty of natural materials, alongside craftsmanship, simplicity of form and attention to detail.’
Amanda Dunsmore on a domestic revolution.
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