As an institution dedicated to ever-changing art forms, MoMA consistently attracts direct engagement. This exhibition documents seven decades of interventions by artists, the general public, and even MoMA staff, ranging from manifestos and conceptual gestures to protests and performances. “Messing” connotes the variety of these actions, which question, play with, provoke, subvert, and comment on the paradox of institutionalizing radical art.
Messing with MoMA: Critical Interventions at the Museum of Modern Art, 1939–Now
Jul 1–Nov 29, 2015
MoMA
- Education Center, Mezzanine Mezzanine
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