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January 30, 2014 | Collection & Exhibitions

New in the Galleries: The Russian Avant-Garde

Posted by Cara Manes, Collection Specialist, Department of Painting and Sculpture Masha Chlenova, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture

A view of Russian avant-garde works in MoMA's fifth-floor Painting and Sculpture Galleries

Installation view of the fifth-floor Alfred H. Barr Painting and Sculpture Galleries, The Museum of Modern Art, summer 2013. Pictured are works by from left to right Kazimir Malevich, [at far left], El Lissitzky, Vasily Ermilov, and Aleksandr Rodchenko. Photo: John Wronn]

MoMA’s collection galleries are always changing. When the Artist’s Choice: Trisha Donnelly exhibition closed this past summer in one of the fifth-floor galleries, the Department of Painting and Sculpture had a chance to use that space to conceive a new installation of Russian art from the Museum’s collection.

Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925: Contemporary Artists Discuss Selected Works

Posted by Masha Chlenova, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture

Throughout the run of Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925 (December 23, 2012–April 15, 2013) we invited contemporary artists to pick a work and say briefly what they find most compelling about it.