The Heart of Art
By Bob Singleton, Executive Director, Greater Astoria Historical Society
The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), which opened nine days after the Stock Market crash in 1929, is ranked by critics as one of the world’s most outstanding museums for its houses, what many consider, to be the world’s greatest collection of contemporary art. Add to this an unsurpassed role of artistic innovation, within its 630,000 square feet of “exhibitions, film screenings, public programming, education, and scholarly research.”
Its affiliate, MOMA PS1, a former schoolhouse in Long Island City, is also no ordinary art museum...
