What's the best modern art museum you've ever been to?

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I guess I'm going to go fo the Tate Modern, MOMA in NYC, and Kiasma in Helsinki.

Post pics if you like!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Kiasma
http://home.att.ne.jp/sigma/satoh/pictures/finland/helsinki/kiasma.jpg

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

palais du tokyo, paris.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Tate Modern rocks my world!!!!!!!!

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Chicago Institute of Art

― andy, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Knowing virtually nothing about modern art, I really enjoyed that one in Berlin in an old train station, the Hamburger or something.

― Nick H (Nick H), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

There's also some gallery in London, round the back of Angel station, all grimy, the Krays used to torture people there apparently, I like it there.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Tate St.Ives! Lovely building! Oh, the days when I ventured further west than Uxbridge.

http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/default.htm

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Personal favourite is the Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena. I've never been disappointed going there. I'll give second place to the Palais du Tokyo and third to tate modern.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

MOMA NYC beats Tate Modern for me, I think - but it's hard to compare somewhere you've been to once with somewhere you go to often.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Noit been to the new MOMA (is it even open) but its far too cramped. I forgot the great PS1 and the sculpture museum in Queens.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

tate modern / palais de tokyo

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Art Institute of Chicago isn't strictly modern art. The modern art museum here is the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA).

I dunno about the best museum, but the best modern art exhibit I ever saw was at the one in Barcelona.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

parco museum of art and beyond

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually really liked the Saatchi Gallery in part because you did not feel overwhelmed by a huge volume of pieces so you could take your time with each and everyone.

― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I really liked the old saatchi gallery in st johns wood for that reason, haven't been to the new one due to the obscene entrance fee

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

You don't have to make an obscene entrance.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

but it helps.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

No one has mentioned the Pompidou yet! Great building and lots of wonderful modern art.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

The Reina Sofia in Madrid is nice too. MOMA QNS kinda sucks, esp. in comparison with the old (soon to be new) MOMA. PS1 is nice as well.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Gotta triple the MOMA vote. The place rocked, even before it moved. (Haven't been to the new one yet; I always run out of time). Also love the Tate Modern: Once, went in there intending to stay a couple of hours, ended up staying four!

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

The turbine gallery of the Tate Modern is peerless but I find the upstairs galleries kind of meh and cramped.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I'd say the Pompidou, though the Hirschorn in Washington DC is a sentimental favorite.

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

P.S. 1 is indeed awesome.

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

the modern bit of philadelphia museum of art is good, lots of duchamps, including the installation that i saw an open university show about but which they couldn't show a picture of.

the other half of the museum is also good - lots of recreations of old, foreign buildings built into the museum.

andy

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I live in the museum of LIFE, dude. The MUSEUM OF LIFE.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

(sorry about that)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

.........#

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

No, the turbine gallery in the Tate Modern is cool. The "sun" thing was there though and that's a little weird. It's supposed to be the sun but it puts out this monochrome light and everyone looks like they're dead, but tons of people just kind of went there to "hang out." Some of them had picnic blankets. I almost had to run out of there, it gave me hives or something.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

top ten

1) Walker-Mpls
2) MoCa Los Angeles
3) Tate London
4) Moma NYC
6) MoCa Houston
7) Yard Dog-Austin
8) Hirshon-Washington DC
9) This is Modern Art LA
10 Pace Wildenstein

― anthony, Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:08 (twenty-two years ago)

american visionary art museum in baltimore is somewhat of a treat.

http://www.avam.org/

― brock (brock), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Some of my favorite ones are the really small ones that are just devoted to one artist or one type of art. That way it's not like going through all these different styles, but immersing onself into that style. There were a couple video muesems in Germany that I liked a lot. They were really small, but you could just sit there for a while and see all theses many awesome videos.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)

The Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth has an incredible Tadao Ando building. Unfortunately, the architecture is better than most of their collection.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

the Hyogo prefecture modern art museum in Kobe is a Tadao Ando building too, but I didn't like it too much. It was all gray and blocky, but I guess that's what he was going for.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 26 February 2004 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

A vote for the Tate Modern here -- impressive and a half.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 February 2004 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

The Thyssen collection in Madrid, next door to the Prado and Reina Sofia. It's skill.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 26 February 2004 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

The holy triumvirate for me are PS1, Palais de Tokyo and Kunst-Werke. The less these places feel like 'museums', the better.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 26 February 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Ick, ick, get out of my neighbourhood. Why do I always live next to museums?

Tate Modern wins because I can't remember how to pronounce the name of that Dutch place that I really like. Though I'm going to put in a lame local vote for Mass MOCA for bringing contemporary art to somewhere as stuffy as the deepest deep of New England.

― The River Kate (kate), Thursday, 26 February 2004 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

the good thing abt PdeT is it has lots of jokes!!! in the sequencing.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 26 February 2004 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

The Thyssen-Bornemisza is a great museum, but not strictly modern art.

― hstencil, Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

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