Abstract

A Museum of Modern Art

The youngest of New York's art museums has just made its bow to the public. The Museum of Modern Art, the creation of a group of prominent collectors and amateurs, has opened its doors in the Heckscher Building on Fifth Avenue at Fifty-seventh Street. Just as the great Armory show of 1913 was the opening gun in the long, bitter struggle for modern art in this country, so the foundation of the new museum marks the final apotheosis of modernism and its acceptance by respectable society. As its name indicates, the new institution is to be devoted primarily to the work of living artists and their immediate predecessors. Wisely enough, its organizers plan to go slowly in the beginning and restrict its activities for the first two years to loan exhibitions; after that, if all goes well, the museum will begin to form a permanent collection.