The Met and MoMA are New York’s two most popular art museums, but the contrast on Saturday was stark. For years, critics have wanted MoMA to get back to a less harried and more contemplative atmosphere. In front of Vincent van Gogh’s “Irises,” I asked her what it meant to be there on the museum’s first day back. ADADI left Peter inside “Making the Met” and made my way to MoMA, where I had my own little moment. Just that almost every object in these two great museums has some kind of complicated, weird or death-defying story behind it.

Source: Washington Post September 01, 2020 09:56 UTC