Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now
Summary information
Date
Wed May 05 2010 until Tue Aug 17 2010
Location
- MoMA type:exhibition building spaces
- 11 West 53rd St. type:thoroughfare names
Concurrent exhibitions
Exhibitions that overlap with this exhibition, in this dataset. Double-click an item in the timeline to view the corresponding exhibition page.
Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now
Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel
What was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56
Tim Burton
Shaping Modernity: Design 1880–1980, Part 1
Performance 7: "Mirage" by Joan Jonas
The New Typography
Public Spaces Changes
Painting and Sculpture Changes 2010
Action! Design over Time
Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography (Part 1)
Projects 92: Yin Xiuzhe
William Kentridge: Five Theme
The Modern Myth: Drawing Mythologies in Modern Times
Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present
Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront
Picasso: Themes and Variation
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Lee Bontecou: All Freedom in Every Sense
Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography (Part 2)
Maya Deren's Legacy: Women and Experimental Film
Bruce Nauman: "Days"
From Line to Plane
Projects 93: Dinh Q. Lê
Contemporary Art from the Collection
Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917
Underground Gallery: London Transport Posters, 1920s–1940s
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today
Marina Abramović: Chair for Man and His Spirit
On-site 3: Mickalene Thomas
Greater New York 2010
Young Architects Program 2010 (MoMA PS1): Pole Dance by Solid Objectives - Idenburg Liu
GNY: Rotating Gallery 3
Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation
| # | Start | End | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marina Abramović: Chair for Man and His Spirit | ||
| 2 | On-site 3: Mickalene Thomas | ||
| 3 | Greater New York 2010 | ||
| 4 | Young Architects Program 2010 (MoMA PS1): Pole Dance by Solid Objectives - Idenburg Liu | ||
| 5 | GNY: Rotating Gallery 3 |
Artists
There were 13 persons who influenced this exhibition.
Persons are ordered alphabetically by surname. Select a letter in the concertina to continue. Click on the person's name to view further information.
Louise Bourgeois
Biographical statement American, born France. 1911–2010
Born 1911 (click to view other people born in this year)Died 2010
Nationality American
Gender Female
External information resources for Louise Bourgeois
Exhibitions
In this dataset, Louise Bourgeois was involved in 79 exhibitions across 8 decades.
- Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 2000s with 27 exhibitions.
- Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1950s with 1 exhibitions.
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Textile Design | |||
| 2 | Master Prints from the Museum Collection |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Recent Acquisitions |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sculpture | |||
| 2 | Recent Acquisitions | |||
| 3 | The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sculpture from the Collection | |||
| 2 | American Prints: 1913–1963 | |||
| 3 | Prints by Sculptors | |||
| 4 | Narrative Prints |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sculpture at the Coliseum | |||
| 2 | Figuratively Sculpting | |||
| 3 | Louise Bourgeois | |||
| 4 | Reinstallation of the Contemporary Galleries | |||
| 5 | American Prints: 1900–1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books | |||
| 6 | Surrealist Prints from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art | |||
| 7 | Master Prints from the Collection | |||
| 8 | Committed to Print |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Public Spaces Changes | |||
| 2 | Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now | |||
| 3 | Abstract Expressionist New York: The Big Picture | |||
| 4 | Abstract Expressionist New York: Ideas Not Theories: Artists and the Club 1942–1962 | |||
| 5 | Abstract Expressionist New York: Rock Papers Scissor | |||
| 6 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2011 | |||
| 7 | Contemporary Galleries: 1980–Now | |||
| 8 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2012 | |||
| 9 | Printin,' in conjunction with the exhibition, Print/Out | |||
| 10 | Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration | |||
| 11 | New to the Print Collection: Matisse to Bourgeois | |||
| 12 | Mark Leckey: Containers and Their Drivers |
Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt)
Biographical statement Venezuelan, born Germany. 1912–1994
Born 1912 (click to view other people born in this year)Died 1994
Nationality
Gender Female
External information resources for Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt)
Exhibitions
In this dataset, Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt) was involved in 17 exhibitions across 5 decades.
- Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 2000s with 8 exhibitions.
- Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1970s,1990s with 1 exhibitions.
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Recent Acquisitions | |||
| 2 | The Responsive Eye | |||
| 3 | Latin-American Art, 1931–1966, from the Museum Collection |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Printed, Cut, Folded, and Torn |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Marriage of Reason and Squalor | |||
| 2 | New to Modern | |||
| 3 | Drawing from the Modern, 1945–1975 | |||
| 4 | The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now | |||
| 5 | Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Part 2 | |||
| 6 | New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930–2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions | |||
| 7 | Paper: Pressed, Stained, Slashed, Folded | |||
| 8 | 1969 |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2010 | |||
| 2 | Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now | |||
| 3 | On Line: Drawing through the Twentieth Century | |||
| 4 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2013 |
Mona Hatoum
Biographical statement
Born 1952 (click to view other people born in this year)Died
Nationality
Gender Female
External information resources for Mona Hatoum
Exhibitions
In this dataset, Mona Hatoum was involved in 25 exhibitions across 3 decades.
- Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 2000s with 16 exhibitions.
- Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1990s with 4 exhibitions.
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Video and Myth | |||
| 2 | Sense and Sensibility: Women Artists and Minimalism in the 90s | |||
| 3 | Sculpture from the Collection | |||
| 4 | New Concepts in Printmaking 2: Willie Cole |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seeing Double | |||
| 2 | Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties | |||
| 3 | Innocence and Experience | |||
| 4 | To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection | |||
| 5 | Drawing from the Modern, 1975–2005 | |||
| 6 | Take Two: Worlds and Views from the Contemporary Collection | |||
| 7 | The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now | |||
| 8 | Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking | |||
| 9 | Into Me/Out of Me | |||
| 10 | Out of Time: A Contemporary View | |||
| 11 | Eye on Europe: Prints, Books and Multiples/1960 to Now | |||
| 12 | Live/Work: Performance into Drawing | |||
| 13 | Lines, Grids, Stains, Words | |||
| 14 | Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities | |||
| 15 | Paper: Pressed, Stained, Slashed, Folded | |||
| 16 | Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now | |||
| 2 | On Line: Drawing through the Twentieth Century | |||
| 3 | Contemporary Galleries: 1980–Now | |||
| 4 | MoMA Media Lounge 2012 | |||
| 5 | A Trip from Here to There |
Yayoi Kusama
Biographical statement Japanese, born 1929
Born 1929 (click to view other people born in this year)Died
Nationality Japanese
Gender Female
External information resources for Yayoi Kusama
Exhibitions
In this dataset, Yayoi Kusama was involved in 33 exhibitions across 5 decades.
- Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 2000s with 16 exhibitions.
- Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1950s with 1 exhibitions.
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yayoi Kusama |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Group Show | |||
| 2 | New Work: Part I | |||
| 3 | Group Show | |||
| 4 | The Object Transformed |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Selections from the Collection | |||
| 2 | From Bauhaus to Pop: Masterworks Given by Philip Johnson | |||
| 3 | The Maximal Sixties: Pop, Op, and Figuration | |||
| 4 | Recent Acquisitions in Modern Drawings | |||
| 5 | Elements of the Natural 1950–1992, Selections from the Collection | |||
| 6 | Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama 1958–1968 |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How Simple Can You Get? | |||
| 2 | White Spectrum | |||
| 3 | Collaborations with Parkett: 1984 to Now | |||
| 4 | To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection | |||
| 5 | Artist's Choice: Mona Hatoum: Here is Elsewhere | |||
| 6 | Painting and Sculpture: Inaugural Installation | |||
| 7 | Drawing from the Modern, 1945–1975 | |||
| 8 | Take Two: Worlds and Views from the Contemporary Collection | |||
| 9 | The Painted World | |||
| 10 | The Gold Standard | |||
| 11 | Lines, Grids, Stains, Words | |||
| 12 | Orpheus Selection: In Search of Darkness | |||
| 13 | Glossolalia: Languages of Drawings | |||
| 14 | Painting and Scultpure Changes 2009 | |||
| 15 | Paper: Pressed, Stained, Slashed, Folded | |||
| 16 | Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now | |||
| 2 | Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography (Part 2) | |||
| 3 | The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today | |||
| 4 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2011 | |||
| 5 | Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde | |||
| 6 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2013 |
Anna Maria Maiolino
Biographical statement Brazilian, born Italy 1942
Born 1942 (click to view other people born in this year)Died
Nationality
Gender Female
External information resources for Anna Maria Maiolino
Exhibitions
In this dataset, Anna Maria Maiolino was involved in 4 exhibitions across 2 decades.
- Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 2000s,2010s with 2 exhibitions.
- Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 2000s,2010s with 2 exhibitions.
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930–2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions | |||
| 2 | Paper: Pressed, Stained, Slashed, Folded |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now | |||
| 2 | On Line: Drawing through the Twentieth Century |
Louise Nevelson
Biographical statement American, born Ukraine. 1899–1988
Born 1899 (click to view other people born in this year)Died 1988
Nationality American
Gender Female
External information resources for Louise Nevelson
Exhibitions
In this dataset, Louise Nevelson was involved in 36 exhibitions across 7 decades.
- Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1960s with 12 exhibitions.
- Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1950s,1990s,2000s with 2 exhibitions.
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Second Floor Permanent Collection | |||
| 2 | 16 Americans |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Art of Assemblage | |||
| 2 | Sculpture | |||
| 3 | Recent Acquisitions | |||
| 4 | Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection | |||
| 5 | Contemporary Painters and Sculptors as Printmakers | |||
| 6 | Americans Today: 25 Painters as Printmakers | |||
| 7 | Selections from the Art Lending Service | |||
| 8 | Group Show of Selections from the Art Lending Service | |||
| 9 | The 1960s: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection | |||
| 10 | Tamarind: Homage to Lithography | |||
| 11 | Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection | |||
| 12 | Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Permanent Collection | |||
| 2 | Printed, Cut, Folded, and Torn | |||
| 3 | American Prints: 1913–1963 | |||
| 4 | Prints by Sculptors | |||
| 5 | 76 Jefferson | |||
| 6 | A Museum Menagerie | |||
| 7 | Handmade Paper Prints and Unique Works | |||
| 8 | Art for Corporations | |||
| 9 | Gold |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Around Picasso | |||
| 2 | Handmade Paper | |||
| 3 | American Prints: 1900–1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books | |||
| 4 | Recent Acquisitions: Contemporary Prints | |||
| 5 | Contemporary Works from the Collection |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Artist's Choice: Elizabeth Murray | |||
| 2 | Selections from the Collection |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York Salon | |||
| 2 | The Path of Resistance |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now | |||
| 2 | Abstract Expressionist New York: The Big Picture | |||
| 3 | Abstract Expressionist New York: Rock Papers Scissor | |||
| 4 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2013 |
Alina Szapocznikow
Biographical statement Polish, 1926–1973
Born 1926 (click to view other people born in this year)Died 1973
Nationality Polish
Gender Female
External information resources for Alina Szapocznikow
Exhibitions
In this dataset, Alina Szapocznikow was involved in 3 exhibitions across 1 decades.
- Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 2010s with 3 exhibitions.
- Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 2010s with 3 exhibitions.
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now | |||
| 2 | The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today | |||
| 3 | Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972 |
Sarah Suzuki
Biographical statement
Born (click to view other people born in this year)Died
Nationality
Gender
External information resources for Sarah Suzuki
Exhibitions
In this dataset, Sarah Suzuki was involved in 11 exhibitions across 2 decades.
- Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 2010s with 7 exhibitions.
- Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 2000s with 4 exhibitions.
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Focus: Elizabeth Murray | |||
| 2 | Projects 86: Gert and Uwe Tobias | |||
| 3 | Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities | |||
| 4 | Projects 90: Song Dong |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Projects 92: Yin Xiuzhe | |||
| 2 | Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now | |||
| 3 | Abstract Expressionist New York: Ideas Not Theories: Artists and the Club 1942–1962 | |||
| 4 | Abstract Expressionist New York: Rock Papers Scissor | |||
| 5 | Printin,' in conjunction with the exhibition, Print/Out | |||
| 6 | Projects 99: Meiro Koizumi | |||
| 7 | Wait, Later this will be Nothing: Editions by Dieter Roth |
Alexandra Schwartz
Biographical statement
Born (click to view other people born in this year)Died
Nationality
Gender
External information resources for Alexandra Schwartz
Exhibitions
In this dataset, Alexandra Schwartz was involved in 1 exhibitions across 1 decades.
- Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 2010s with 1 exhibitions.
- Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 2010s with 1 exhibitions.
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now |
Atsuko Tanaka
Biographical statement Japanese, 1932–2005
Born 1932 (click to view other people born in this year)Died 2005
Nationality Japanese
Gender Female
External information resources for Atsuko Tanaka
Exhibitions
In this dataset, Atsuko Tanaka was involved in 6 exhibitions across 3 decades.
- Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 2010s with 4 exhibitions.
- Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1960s,2000s with 1 exhibitions.
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The New Japanese Painting and Sculpture |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What is Painting? Contemporary Art From the Collection |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Public Spaces Changes | |||
| 2 | Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now | |||
| 3 | On Line: Drawing through the Twentieth Century | |||
| 4 | Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde |
Rosemarie Trockel
Biographical statement German, born 1952
Born 1952 (click to view other people born in this year)Died
Nationality German
Gender Female
External information resources for Rosemarie Trockel
Exhibitions
In this dataset, Rosemarie Trockel was involved in 23 exhibitions across 4 decades.
- Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 2000s with 11 exhibitions.
- Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1980s with 2 exhibitions.
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Projects: Rosemarie Trockel | |||
| 2 | Drawings of the Eighties from the Collection, Part I |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drawings from the 80s from the Collection: Part II | |||
| 2 | Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing | |||
| 3 | The Human Figure: A Modern Vision | |||
| 4 | Beuys and After: Contemporary German Drawings | |||
| 5 | Philip Johnson: Architecture and Design Gifts | |||
| 6 | A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Drawing |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Raw and the Cooked | |||
| 2 | Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties | |||
| 3 | One Thing After Another | |||
| 4 | Collaborations with Parkett: 1984 to Now | |||
| 5 | Uniform: Order and Disorder | |||
| 6 | Drawing from the Modern, 1975–2005 | |||
| 7 | Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Part 2 | |||
| 8 | Eye on Europe: Prints, Books and Multiples/1960 to Now | |||
| 9 | Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities | |||
| 10 | Here is Every, Four Decades of Contemporary Art | |||
| 11 | Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now | |||
| 2 | Sep-11 | |||
| 3 | Contemporary Galleries: 1980–Now | |||
| 4 | MoMA Media Lounge 2012 |
Rachel Whiteread
Biographical statement British, born 1963
Born 1963 (click to view other people born in this year)Died
Nationality British
Gender Female
External information resources for Rachel Whiteread
Exhibitions
In this dataset, Rachel Whiteread was involved in 19 exhibitions across 3 decades.
- Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 2000s with 10 exhibitions.
- Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 2010s with 4 exhibitions.
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sense and Sensibility: Women Artists and Minimalism in the 90s | |||
| 2 | More than One: Twentieth-Century Print Portfolio | |||
| 3 | Selections from the Collection | |||
| 4 | A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Drawing | |||
| 5 | Reopening: Installations and Projects |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | White Spectrum | |||
| 2 | Collaborations with Parkett: 1984 to Now | |||
| 3 | New to Modern | |||
| 4 | To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection | |||
| 5 | Contemporary: Inaugural Installation | |||
| 6 | Painting and Sculpture: Inaugural Installation | |||
| 7 | Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Part 1 | |||
| 8 | Out of Time: A Contemporary View | |||
| 9 | Eye on Europe: Prints, Books and Multiples/1960 to Now | |||
| 10 | Artist's Choice: Vik Muniz, Rebus |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now | |||
| 2 | The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today | |||
| 3 | Contemporary Galleries: 1980–Now | |||
| 4 | Cut 'n' Paste: From Architectural Assemblage to Collage City |
Zarina
Biographical statement American, born India 1937
Born 1937 (click to view other people born in this year)Died
Nationality American
Gender Female
External information resources for Zarina
Exhibitions
In this dataset, Zarina was involved in 4 exhibitions across 2 decades.
- Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 2010s with 3 exhibitions.
- Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1980s with 1 exhibitions.
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ripe Fruit |
| # | Start | End | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now | |||
| 2 | Contemporary Galleries: 1980–Now | |||
| 3 | Painting and Sculpture Changes 2012 |