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Spain
Barcelona Museum
of Contemporary Art
Opened in 1995, the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)
- designed by Richard Meier & Partners - focuses on post-1945 Catalan
and Spanish art, during three periods: 1940s and 50s; 1960s and 70s; and
1980 onwards. Next door to the museum is the Barcelona Centre of Contemporary
Culture (Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, CCCB).
Guggenheim
Museum Bilbao
Established in 1997 and designed by the famous deconstructivist architect
Frank O Gehry, this Basque museum of contemporary art stands alongside
the Nervion River in Bilbao. It is one of several museums around the world,
owned and operated by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The museum
holds permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish and international
artists. It receives over 1 million visitors annually.
Museo
Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (MNCARS)
Inaugurated in 1992, this is Spain's national museum of 20th century art.
It is located close to the Prado Museum and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum.
Highlights of the museum's permanent collection include works by Pablo
Picasso - notably his masterpiece Guernica
(1937) - and Salvador Dali, as well as Antoni Tapies, Julio Gonzalez,
Eduardo Chillida, Pablo Gargallo, Lucio Munoz, Luis Gordillo, Jorge Oteiza
and Jose Gutierrez Solana. It also features photography, including war
photographs by camera artists like Robert
Capa (1913-54). Although the focus remains Spanish art, the museum
also owns works by international painters and sculptors including: Yves
Klein, Lucio Fontana, Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Donald Judd, Damien
Hirst, Julian Schnabel, Joseph Beuys, Wolf Vostell, Nam June Paik,
Gabriel Orozco, Clyfford Still, and Francis Bacon. The museum's art library
contains over 100,000 books, and some 1,000 videos.
Switzerland
Kunstmuseum
Basel
One of the oldest and best art museums
in Europe, the Kunstmuseum contains the largest and most important
public art collection in Switzerland. In addition to its collections of
Old Masters, its Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, Expressionist and
Cubist paintings, as well as works of Constructivism, Dadaism and Surrealism,
the museum maintains an impressive holding of contemporary and postmodernist
art, by Swiss, German, Italian, and American artists, such as Joseph Beuys,
Georg Baselitz, A.R. Penck, Walter Dahn, Martin Disler, Siegfried Anzinger,
Rosemarie Trockel, Robert Gober, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Brice Marden,
Bruce Nauman, Jonathan Borofsky, Francesco Clemente, Mimmo Paladino, Enzo
Cucchi, and others.
Canada
Musee d'Art Contemporain
de Montreal
Established in 1964, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal - Canada's
only cultural venue devoted to both performing and visual arts - maintains
a collection of over 7,000 works of art by more than 1,500 contemporary
artists, focusing on postmodernist Canadian art, as well as important
international artists. Its collection embraces photographs, installation,
video art and works on paper, as well as paintings and sculptures.
Canadian Museum of
Contemporary Photography (CMCP), Ottowa
Founded in 1985, the CMCP contained Canada's best art and documentary
photography, including works by the great Armenian-Canadian portraitist
Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002). Sadly,
however, its collections and exhibitions have since been absorbed by the
National Gallery of Canada.
Museum of Contemporary
Canadian Art (MOCCA) Toronto
Founded in 1999, MOCCA's brief is to exhibit, collect, and promote contemporary
art by Canadian and international artists, whose artworks address the
key issues of our times. Since 2005, more than eight hundred contemporary
artists have been showcased in 80 exhibitions. The Museum of Contemporary
Canadian Art also has a permanent collection of some 400 items by more
than 150 Canadian artists.
United States of America
Note: all galleries and museums listed
in State order.
Gagosian Gallery,
Los Angeles
The original venue in a group of eleven modern and contemporary art galleries,
owned by Larry Gagosian, it was followed by three venues in New York;
two in London; one in each of Rome, Paris, Geneva, Hong Kong, Athens and
Beverly Hills. The gallery has showcased all the great postmodernist artists,
including: Francis Bacon, Yves Klein, Andy Warhol, Cy
Twombly, Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, the sculptors Mark di Suvero, Richard
Serra, the contemporary art photographers Nan
Goldin and Richard Prince, as well as the Deconstructivist architect
Frank O Gehry, to name but
a few. Larry Gagosian is a constant presence in ArtReview's "Top
10" important people in the contemporary art world.
Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles, California (MOCA)
Opened in 1983, the museum's collection primarily consists of American
and European art created since 1940. Valuable acquisitions have included:
part of the Giuseppe Panza private collection (works by Jean Fautrier,
Roy Lichtenstein, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline and Antoni Tapies); the Barry
Lowen private collection of minimalist and post-minimalist art (works
by Dan Flavin, Elizabeth Murray, Julian Schnabel, Joel Shapiro, Ellsworth
Kelly, Agnes Martin, Frank
Stella, and Cy Twombly); donations from the Rita and Taft Schreiber collection
(drawings and oil paintings by Jackson Pollock, Piet Mondrian, and Arshile
Gorky); donations from Phil and Beatrice Gersh (includes Pollock's action
painting Number 3, 1948 and the stainless steel sculpture Cubi
III (1961) by David Smith
- plus works by Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, and Susan Rothenberg); a bequest
from Marcia Simon Weisman (features works by Richard Diebenkorn, Sam Francis,
Willem de Kooning, and Barnett Newman. Other highlights include the 1998
exhibition of word art by Christopher
Wool (b.1955). Now established as one of the best
art museums in America, MOCA Los Angeles is also noted for its temporary
thematic-survey exhibitions of postwar art. Please see also: Los
Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
Museum of Contemporary
Art San Diego, California (MCASD)
Founded in 1941 (as the La Jolla Art Museum), MCASD is an art museum devoted
to art created since 1950. In addition to paintings and sculptures by
Pop artists, minimalists and neo-expressionists, MCASD has also hosted
exhibitions of camera art by photojournalists such as Larry
Burrows (1926-1971), Don McCullin
(b.1935), James Nachtwey (b.1948) and Steve
McCurry (b.1950), as well as documentary works by camera artists like
Nadav Kander (b.1961). It has a permanent endowment fund of over $40 million,
and a total annual budget of $6 million.
San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
Set up in 1935, SFMOMA holds an internationally acclaimed collection of
20th century art, with over 26,000 items of sculpture, painting, art photography,
architecture, design, and media arts. Artists represented include urban
genre painter Edward Hopper, minimalist Ellsworth
Kelly, post-minimalist Eva Hesse,
surrealist Rene Magritte, and Neo-Plasticism inventor Piet Mondrian, and
Dadaist Marcel Duchamp, as well as Pop art pioneers Jasper Johns and Andy
Warhol, Colour Field painter Mark Rothko, Neo-Expressionist Francis
Bacon and Photorealist Chuck Close. Camera artists represented include:
Edward Weston (1886-1958),
Paul Strand (1890-1976), Irving
Penn (1917-2009), Richard
Avedon (1923-2004) and others. Postmodernist camera artists exhibited
include the Canadian Jeff Wall
(b.1946), the German Andreas
Gursky (b.1955) and the American Cindy Sherman (b.1954), all of whom
can command seven-figure prices for their photographs. The drip-painter
Jackson Pollock had his first museum exhibition at SFMOMA, as too did
abstract expressionists Arshile Gorky and Clyfford Still. SFMOMA is also
noted for its seminal exhibition of feminist
art, entitled "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution" curated
by Connie Butler (2007). It included works by Judy Chicago (b.1939) and
Barbara Kruger (b.1945).
SFMOMA was the leading museum of 20th century art in America until the
Museum of Contemporary Art opened in Los Angeles in 1987.
California
Museum of Photography
Started in 1973, the collections of UCR/CMP form the largest single collection
of photographs in the Western half of the United States, and are prized
by photography researchers, film producers, magazine publishers, students
of camera technology and photo clubs.. Every aspect of camera art is covered,
including the history of photography,
19th century pictorialism,
sharp focus modernism, street photography,
portraiture, and so on. In addition, it features the Bingham Technology
Collection of 10,000 cameras, viewing devices, and photographic apparatus.
The Bingham Collection is divided into four parts: The Kibbey Zeiss-Ikon
Collection; Wodinsky Ihagee-Exacta Collection; Curtis Polaroid Collection
and the Teague Kodak Brownie Collection. An important part of the Print
Collection is the Keystone-Mast Collection, which contains over 250,000
original negatives and 100,000 paper prints.
See also: Is
Photography Art?
Aldrich Contemporary
Art Museum, Ridgefield, Conn
Established in 1964, by Larry Aldrich (1906–2001) who sold his art
collection to fund the institution and its inaugural collection, the museum
was renamed The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in 1967, and its collection
was sold in 1981, so as to concentrate on its principal aim of exhibiting
only the latest art. Artists showcased include Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper
Johns, Frank Stella, Cy
Twombly, Anslem Kiefer, and many others, including a number of lens-based
artists.
Museum of
Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida
Founded in 1924, MOCA Jacksonville, ranked among the largest contemporary
art institutions in the Southeastern United States, is part of the University
of North Florida. Its permanent collection covers painting, sculpture,
video and new media, with works by Hans
Hofmann, Joan Mitchell, James
Rosenquist, Ed Paschke, and other contemporary artists.
Museum of Contemporary
Art (MCA) Chicago, Illinois
Opened in 1967, this is one of the world's largest contemporary art centres.
Famous artists whose debut exhibitions took place here, include the self-portraitist
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) (wife of Diego Rivera), the Neo-Pop sculptor
and painter Jeff Koons (b.1955).
Other showcased artists include the local feminist Judy
Chicago (b.1939). The museum's collection includes representative
paintings, prints, and sculpture, from movements like surrealism, pop
art, minimalism, and conceptual
art; as well as contemporary photography, video, installation, and related
media. The museum also covers contemporary dance, theatre and multidisciplinary
arts. For other Chicago venues, see: Art
Institute of Chicago.
Museum of Contemporary
Photography (MoCP), Chicago, Illinois
Established in 1984 by Columbia College Chicago, it is famous for its
promotion of emerging camera artists. The MoCP's permanent collection
includes more than 7,000 photographs by such photographers as Ansel Adams
(1902-84), Harry Callahan, Henri
Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), Irving Penn (1917-2009), Dorothea
Lange (1895-1965), Julia
Margaret Cameron (1815-79), Walker
Evans (1903-75), Aaron Siskind, and Victor Skrebneski.
Institute
of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, Mass
Established in 1936 as the Boston Museum of Modern Art, devoted to the
exhibition of contemporary artists, it has held a number of cutting edge
exhibitions, featuring German Expressionism, Pablo Picasso (including
his work "Guernica"), Le Corbusier, Jim
Dine, Jasper Johns, Claes
Oldenburg, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol
(including his Campbell's Soup Cans and portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Elvis
Presley, and Elizabeth Taylor), Donald
Judd, Cornelia Parker, Robert
Morris, Tara Donovan, Louise
Nevelson, Francesco Clemente, Anselm Kiefer, Robert
Mapplethorpe, Sophie Calle, Olafur Eliasson, Anish Kapoor, Shepard
Fairey and Mark Bradford. See also: Museum
of Fine Arts Boston.
Massachusetts
Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA)
Founded in 1999, MASS MoCA is one of the largest institutions of contemporary
visual art and performing arts in America. It has 19 galleries and performing
arts spaces, and is also the home of the Bang on a Can Summer Institute,
and the Solid Sound Music Festival.
Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Established in 1927, the Walker is regarded as one of the nation's "big
five" museums of modern art along with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA),
the Samuel R Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
and the Hirshhorn. Opposite the museum stands the Minneapolis Sculpture
Garden, which opened in 1988. The museum's focus on contemporary 20th
century art began during the 1940s. Acquisitions have included: The
Large Blue Horses (1911) by Franz Marc; sculptures by Pablo Picasso,
Henry Moore, and Giacometti; Office at Night (1940) by Edward Hopper;
16 Jackies (1964) by Andy Warhol; Big Self-Portrait (1967-8)
by Chuck Close, to name but
a few. A number of other artists have enjoyed their first major exposure
in Walker exhibitions: they include Joseph Cornell, Frank Gehry, Julie
Mehretu, Mario Merz, and Kara Walker. Since the 1990s, the Walker has
begun collecting works representing less mainstream art movementss, such
as the Japanese Gutai group, Italian Arte Povera, Viennese Actionism,
and Fluxus, all of which emerged
during the 1950s and 1960s.
Kemper Museum of
Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Founded in 1994, by Bebe and R. Crosby Kemper Jr., whose personal art
collection forms the core of the museum's permanent collection, it is
Missouri's largest contemporary arts venue. Its collection includes over
700 items of 20th century art by artists including: Robert Motherwell,
Helen Frankenthaler, William Wegman, Nancy Graves, Dale Chihuly, David
Hockney, Arthur Dove, Andrew Wyeth, Fairfield Porter, Georgia O'Keeffe,
Frank Stella, Louise Bourgeois,
Christian Boltanski, Robert Mapplethorpe, Nan Goldin, Garry Winogrand,
Kojo Griffin, Jim Hodges, Wayne Thiebaud and Stephen Scott Young.
Guggenheim
Museum New York
Set up in 1939 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, "The Guggenheim"
now houses a world-renowned collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist,
early Modern and contemporary art, in its world famous New York building
designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Museum
of Modern Art (MoMA)
Regarded by many art critics as the most
influential museum of modern art in the world, its permanent collection
is a Who's Who of 20th century art around the world, including
drawings, paintings, sculpture, photography, prints, works of architecture
and design, as well as film and electronic media.
Its library holds another 300,000 items, including books, periodicals,
and individual files on more than 70,000 artists. Specialist collections
include MoMA's film collection of more than 25,000 titles and its acclaimed
art photography collection, set up first by Edward
Steichen and then John Szarkowski. MoMA's Department of Architecture
and Design, established as early as 1932 was the first museum department
devoted to the subject. Its many postmodernist exhibitions of camera art
have included two solo shows (1975, 2008) for the influential husband
and wife team Bernd and Hilla Becher
(1931-2007; b.1934), founders of the Dusseldorf School, as well as cutting
edge portraitists such as Diane
Arbus (1923-1971). In 2010, the museum staged a major retrospective
for the avant-garde performance artist Marina
Abramovic (b.1946), which was the largest exhibition of performance
art in the museum's history.
MoMA PS1, New
York
Set up in 1971 (as the Institute for Art and Urban Resources), and affiliated
with The Museum of Modern Art since January 2000, MoMA PS1 is one of the
leaders in avant-garde site-specific art in the United States. As well
as organizing its own exhibitions, the institution also runs the International
and National Projects series, and the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program
with The Museum of Modern Art.
The New Museum of
Contemporary Art, New York
Established in 1977, it is the only New York museum devoted exclusively
to international contemporary art. In December 2007, the New Museum opened
its new $50 million 7-story 60,000-square-foot building, which in 2008
was named one of the architectural "New Seven Wonders of the World"
by Conde Nast Traveler. Predominantly interested in exhibiting works rather
than amassing a collection, the museum possesses some 1,000 items of its
own in a variety of media.
Pace Gallery, New
York
Established in 1960 in Boston, by Arne Glimcher, it now has five venues
in NYC, one in Mayfair, London, and one in the 798 Art District in Beijing.
During the period 1993-2010, the gallery was called "PaceWildenstein,"
owing to its merger with Wildenstein & Co. (specialists in Old Master
paintings). Contemporary artists represented by the gallery include: Jim
Dine, David Hockney, Robert Mangold,Agnes Martin, Roberto Matta, Isamu
Noguchi,
Claes Oldenburg, Robert Ryman, Julian Schnabel, Kiki Smith, Zhang Huan,
and Zhang Xiaogang.
Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York
Founded in 1929, "the Whitney" focuses on American
art from the 20th and 21st centuries. Its permanent collection consists
of almost 20,000 drawings, paintings, prints, photographs, videos, sculptures,
and other contemporary media by some 2,900 artists, including all well
known American painters. Keenly interested in exhibiting the latest American
art, the museum's Annual and Biennial exhibitions are both well-established
venues for younger and less well-known artists, like Keith
Haring (1958-90), David
Wojnarowicz (1954-92) and many others. See also: Best
Contemporary Art Festivals.
Museum of
Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Established in 1968 as The New Gallery, by Marjorie Talalay, Agnes Gund,
and Nina Castelli Sundell it was renamed the Cleveland Center for Contemporary
Art in 1984, and given its present name in 2002. In October 2012 the museum
opened at its new $27.2 million, designed by London architect Farshid
Moussavi.
The Contemporary
Arts Center (CAC) Cincinnati, Ohio
Founded in 1939, the Contemporary Arts Center was among the first institutions
in the United States devoted to exhibiting contemporary art. With no collection
of its own, the CAC focuses exclusively on exhibiting cutting-edge artworks
in painting, sculpture, origami paper
folding, architectural design, photography, performance art and electronic
media.
Portland Art Museum
(PAM) Oregon
Established in 1892, the Portland Art Museum is the oldest museum in the
Pacific Northwest. Its 42,000-item collection reflects the history of
art from ancient times to the 21st century, with 20th/21st century art
being displayed in the Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art,
the Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, and the Northwest Film Center. In
2000, the Jubitz Center acquired the personal art collection of the celebrated
New York art critic Clement Greenberg
(1909-94); his annotated library is available to researchers at PAMs Crumpacker
Family Library.
The Andy
Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Penn
Established in 1994, it is one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
and a partnership betwen the Carnegie Institute, the Dia Art Foundation
and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (AWFVA). It is also
the largest museum in the United States devoted to a single artist, with
7-storys, 17 galleries, 900 paintings, almost 2,000 works on paper, over
1,000 unique prints, and 80 sculptures. Its collection of lens-based art
includes 4,000 photographs, 4,350 Warhol films and videos. It attracts
some 100,000 visitors each year. In addition, since 1996, the museum has
sponsored over 50 travelling exhibits of Pop
Art that have attracted some 9 million visitors in more than 150 venues
around the world.
Henry Art Gallery,
Seattle, Washington
Founded in 1927, "The Henry" is the art museum of the University
of Washington. Its collection, comprising some 20,000 items, features
an extensive photographic content (due to the acquisition of the Joseph
and Elaine Monsen collection), as well as a range of textile art.
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