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Article: MAKING MODERN NEW AGAIN.(New York City's Museum of Modern Art, in its 'Modern Starts' exhibition, displays works from different mediums)
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- House Beautiful
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- November 1, 1999
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In a series of eye-opening exhibitions, New York's MoMA, the world's best collection of modern art, rethinks its holdings for the next century
No other museum boasts a more important survey of modern art than New York's Museum of Modern Art. Opened to the public seventy years ago this November, it now has a hammerlock on the must-have masterworks of the movement, from Picasso's bombshell Les Demoiselles d'Avignon to Matisse's lyrical La Danse, acquired long before the subject matter was taken seriously by mainstream institutions. It would be impossible for any museum today to equal MoMA's peerless modernist holdings, no matter how much it spent. The big question ...