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The man who created MOMA.
A work of art is an infinitely complex focus of human experience. The mystery of its creation, its history, and the rise and fall of its esthetic, documentary, sentimental, and commercial values, the endless variety of its relationships to the other works of art, its physical condition, the meaning of its subject, the technique of its production, the purpose of the man who made it--all these factors lie behind a work of art, converge upon it, and challenge our powers of analysis and publication. And they should be made accessible to other scholars and intelligible to the man off the street.
--Alfred H. Barr, Jr., 1946
Of the many museums that were ...
- MoMA's PAPA/The Religious Dimension of Modernism; A Symposium on Alfred Barr,...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 1, 2002 700+ words
NEW YORK -- Alfred Barr, founding Curator of the Museum of Modern Art, is considered the most...unpublished interview she had with Barr on the subject of his religious...exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art during Barr's reign and director of...
- Director in a cubby hole: in the February 1982 issue Mahonri Sharp Young wrote...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Young, Mahonri Sharp January 1, 2006 700+ words
Alfred Barr was far from being a model...the founding of the Museum of Modern Art in 1929 to 1943, he held the...and quick oblivion. But Barr was a man who would not go...trouble came of course because Barr and the Trustees disagreed...
- Art newsflash - dateline: fifty years ago today. (Manhattan Museum of Modern...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 10, 1989 700+ words
...Alfred H. Barr Jr. was the force...behind the Museum of Modern Art. MOMA's founding...mass appeal that modern art now holds to his...Alfred H. Barr Jr.: Missionary...is the story of Barr's crusade for modern art. Its publication...
- Space to elaborate; The Museum of Modern Art reopens in newly expanded glory,...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor November 19, 2004 700+ words
...fairly linear story of modern art, attempting to trace...singular understanding of modern art," says Mr. Lowry...founding director, Alfred Barr - had to be reinforced...says, where ideas about modern art are suggested and debated...
- Museum of Modern Art looks to its future with current...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Sands, Ellen May 18, 1997 700+ words
...Toward the New Museum of Modern Art: Sketchbooks by Ten Architects...the future holds for the modern-art museum. "This is the...opportunity to build on Alfred Barr's [the museum's first...in 1929, the Museum of Modern Art began life in six rooms...
- MOMA Settles with Malevich Heirs.(New York City's Museum of Modern Art attempts...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Cash, Stephanie Ebony, David October 1, 1999 700+ words
...past summer, the Museum of Modern Art reached an unusual legal agreement...founding director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., the misfortunes of...Dorner showed the works to Barr, who was in Europe at the time...to be an agent for Malevich, Barr bought two paintings and two...
- New Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, Opens to Visitors.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News December 15, 2002 700+ words
...visitors Saturday to the new Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth...crowd rushed into the new Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth on...the second-largest modern art museum in the nation...ceremony led by Mayor Kenneth Barr, museum director Marla...
- Star wars at the MOMA. (Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition, Museum of...
- Magazine article from: Interior Design Blake, Peter August 1, 1988 700+ words
...MOMA New York's Museum of Modern Art has had trouble with architecture...direction of the sainted Alfred Barr, for emphasis. Now, the trouble...Russell Hitchcock, and Alfred Barr put together, the term "International...coined (one gathers by Alfred Barr)--in the hope, I suspect...
Source: HighBeam Research, The man who created MOMA.