At the museums: MOMA on the move.(The Talk of the Town)(Museum of Modern Art)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 25-MAR-02

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Last week, the Museum of Modern Art moved its hundred-and-eighty-thousand-volume library to a new, temporary home in Long Island City, Queens. A lavishly refitted factory once occupied by Swingline, the stapler company, will be MOMA's headquarters from late June, when it opens to the public, until at least 2005, while the site on Fifty-third Street, in Manhattan, is renovated and expanded.

The museum has spent fifty million dollars to purchase the old factory and turn it into three huge galleries, with tens of thousands of square feet of storage space. "I saw it when it was Swingline staple," Bill Maloney, MOMA's project director,...

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