 "The total gallery space at the MoMA after the expansion is 166,000 square feet")
Walking through near-empty galleries of the expanded Museum of Modern Art in New York on its first day of press previews, I experienced serendipity at the MoMA for the first time ever. I turned a corner and stumbled across a vitrine with Meret Oppenheim’s fur cup from 1936 in front of Frida Kahlo’s Self Portrait with Cropped Hair from 1940; I walked to the left and was suddenly in front of Henri Matisse’s superstar work, Dance (I), from 1909.
It’s a combination of paintings, sculptures, and time periods that could never have existed in the old MoMA, where chronology and
