Talk:Museum of Modern Art
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File:Information.svg The redirect MoMA The Museum of Modern Art has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Template:Slink until a consensus is reached. Steel1943 (talk) 20:13, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
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File:Information.svg The redirect Manhattan Museum of Art has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Template:Section link until a consensus is reached. Cyber the tiger🐯 (talk) 20:44, 3 March 2025 (UTC)
"First" modern art museum in the U.S.?
Hi all. I raised this previously on this talk page in regards to The Phillips Collection, but I wanted to circle back now as someone made a change. I just manually re-added the claim that MoMA was the first museum in the U.S. devoted exclusively to modern art, which @Garrrick's edit removed. Garrrick pointed to the Société Anonyme as an example of a modern art museum that was founded before MoMA. I really think this deserves discussion before a change is made, as there are a range of conflicting claims by different institutions on this point.
Firstly, I'm really not sure the Société Anonyme can be categorized as a museum in the traditional sense. They were an itinerant exhibition-producing organization that hosted occasional exhibitions in their headquarters and sponsored/organized modern art exhibitions at a range of other museums and galleries in New York. It's not clear to me that the Société was actually a museum, even if they added "the museum of modern art" as a subtitle to their name.
Second, several institutions make the claim that they were the first modern art museum in the U.S., MoMA most prominently. In addition, The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., explicitly calls itself "America's first modern art museum".
I think there needs to be more discussion and references to sources before changes can be made to this foundational claim. Thoughts? 19h00s (talk) 16:53, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
- Hello 19h00s. Thank you for your fine mapping out of this dilemma. I'm happy to have a discussion. My view is this, and I believe it's in line with principles of how Wikipedia should work: Since the claim is disputed, which you yourself point out that it is, it shouldn't expressed in the article as an undisputed fact, which it currently is. Garrrick (talk) 18:08, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
- Agreed, it should probably be struck from this article. I think The Phillips claim should also be struck from that article. I wish there were easily accessible sourcing on these claims - I'm sure one of them is right, it's just hard to find independent authoritative sourcing. 19h00s (talk) 18:39, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
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