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2016-01-08 19:57:56| Apparel - Topix.net
MOCA chief curator Helen Molesworth stands next to a sculpture by Liz Larner in the exhibition "The Art of Our Time," which shakes up the nature of the permanent collection show. Enter the permanent collection galleries of any museum of modern and contemporary art in the United States and it's likely you'll lay eyes on a familiar story: the muscular narrative of the Abstract Expressionists - Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, et al. - attacking their canvases in their 1940s cold water flats, creating a distinctly American art out of drips and splashy brushstrokes, continuing through the pathways of '60s Pop and '70s Minimalism before landing at the Neo-Expressionism of the '80s .
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