CORPORATE ART AT MOMA

Corporate art collections are nothing new, nor are exhibitions of them in major museums, Roberta Smith writes in the New York Times. But that won’t keep the following from sounding like satire: the Museum of Modern Art, the most visionary museum of the 20th century, is inaugurating the temporary-exhibition galleries in its 21st-century home with a show of gifts and loans from a corporation. Not a good sign, you might say. It certainly deflates the heightened commitment to cutting-edge art that the Modern so emphatically telegraphed with its new design and distribution of display space—the grand double-story gallery for post-1970 art on the second floor of its new building, created at the expense of space for the older painting and sculpture upstairs.