New York's a Go Go (MOMA)

  • 16 years ago
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is a preeminent art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, USA, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been singularly important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. It is considered by many to have the best collection of modern Western masterpieces in the world, including such important and familiar works as the following:

The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau
The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso
The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí
Broadway Boogie Woogie by Piet Mondrian
Campbell's Soup Cans by Andy Warhol
The Seed of the Areoi by Paul Gauguin
Water Lilies triptych by Claude Monet
The Dance (painting) by Henri Matisse
The Bather by Paul Cézanne
"Three Musicians" by Pablo Picasso
"Love Song (Giorgio de Chirico)" by Giorgio De Chirico
"One: Number 31, 1950" by Jackson Pollock
Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth
Self-Portrait With Cropped Hair by Frida Kahlo
Shimmering Substance by Jackson Pollock
Painting (1946) by Francis Bacon

Background music is Bowie's "The Jean Genie" which was composed and recorded in New York City, where he spent time hanging out with the Warhol set's Cyrinda Foxe.