The New York architecture community has been in a swivet since the posting of an article originally titled “MoMA to Abolish Architecture and Design Galleries” in Architects Newspaper on April 12. In the piece, editor-in -chief William Menking pointed out that the recent closing of the third-floor permanent Architecture and Design (A + D) galleries in New York’s Museum of Modern Art are part of Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s renovation and expansion project, to be completed in 2019. Also shut down for the duration are the dedicated museum galleries devoted to photography and drawings.
While this temporary measure seems logical, the brouhaha erupted from the paper’s assertion that after the expansion, galleries devoted to particular disciplines may no longer exist. Instead, the museum could decide to bring together its permanent collections in an interdisciplinary arrangement, so that painting, sculpture, architecture, are exhibited as one fluid continuum.
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