The MoMa was founded in 1929, and moved into, and out of, temporary locations, but in 1939 finally opened the doors of the building it still occupies in midtown Manhattan. The most stunning reinvention of the museum — the ‘New MoMa’ — opened to the public on November 20, 2004. Read more about the building’s state-of-the-art architecture and design…

Walking over to the shimmering New Museum to see the exhibition After Nature, SundayArts blogger Susan Yung stepped over a dead baby bird on Prince Street, and then some oily treacle running down the Bowery. It was a suitable overture to the show, which “surveys a landscape… darkened by uncertain catastrophe.” Read more…

In a period of radical expansion of public interest and market forces, what is the state of contemporary art’s production, presentation, and acquisition?