Museo del Novecento
Twentieth-century art | |
Director | Anna Maria Montaldo |
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Curator | Danka Giacon, Iolanda Ratti |
Website | museodelnovecento |
The Museo del Novecento ("museum of the twentieth century") is a museum of
The museum opened in December 2010. It displays about 400 works, most of them Italian, from the twentieth century.[1]
Collection
Apart from a single room housing works by foreign artists including
Other sections of the museum are dedicated to individual artists such as Giorgio de Chirico, Lucio Fontana and Morandi. There are also sections devoted to art movements of the twentieth century, including Abstractionism, Arte Povera, the Novecento Italiano, Post-Impressionism and Realism, and to genres such as landscape and monumental art.[1]
In 2015 the museum received a large donation from private collectors Bianca and Mario Bertolini of contemporary art works by artists such as Daniel Buren, Joseph Kosuth, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol.[2]
Facilities
The museum has a bookshop, and a restaurant-bar on the top floor, overlooking Piazza del Duomo.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e Roderick Conway Morris (22 March 2011). A Milan Home for Modern Art. New York Times. Accessed October 2015.
- ^ [s.n.] (10 August 2015). Warhol, Buren, Kosuth: cresce il Museo del Novecento di Milano (in Italian). Il Sole 24 Ore. Accessed October 2015.
Further reading
- Museo del Novecento: The collection, 2010, aavv. (Italian language edition)
- Media related to Museo del Novecento (Milan) at Wikimedia Commons