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1/3/2008

Color Chart

The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York

The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Exhibition Gallery, sixth floor

Color Chart celebrates a paradox: the lush beauty that results when contemporary artists assign color decisions to chance, readymade source, or arbitrary system. Midway through the twentieth century, long-held convictions regarding the spiritual truth or scientific validity of particular colors gave way to an excitement about color as a mass-produced and standardized commercial product. The Romantic quest for personal expression instead became Andy Warhol's "I want to be a machine" the artistry of mixing pigments was eclipsed by Frank Stella's "Straight out of the can; it can’t get better than that." Color Chart is the first major exhibition devoted to this pivotal transformation, featuring work by some forty artists ranging from Ellsworth Kelly and Gerhard Richter to Sherrie Levine and Damien Hirst.

Color Lab
Color Lab, an interactive space for families created in conjunction with the exhibition Color Chart, is located in the Reading Room on the first floor of the Cullman Education Center. Open for the run of the exhibition, Color Lab offers materials for families to conduct their own exploration of color choice. Children and adults are invited to experiment with giant magnetic boards, play games and activities, or create their own color-choice systems using colored pencils and paper. Free with Museum admission.

Organized by Ann Temkin, Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art.

The exhibition is supported by Benjamin Moore Paints.

Generous funding is provided by Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley and by Glenstone Foundation, Mitchell P. Rales, Founder.

Additional support is provided by Cultural Services, Embassy of France in the United States and by The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art.

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Saturday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Sunday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Monday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Tuesday closed
Wednesday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Thursday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Friday 10:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
Please note: the Museum will be open to the public on Tuesday, March 18.
Admission
Adults $20
Seniors (65 and over with ID) $16
Students (full-time with current ID) $12
Children (sixteen and under) Free

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