For most of them, the show was meant to be an exhibition displaying the wide range of American modern art of the time, from the realism of the Ashcan School to the experiments of the Stieglitz-circle painters.

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The book boasts reprints of complete stories and full-color covers and as a means of accentuating the significant cultural value (both pop and otherwise) they had as examples of modern American art and vehicles for deep, wonderfully insightful critiques of post-war American society.

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Other museums collect contemporary Latin American art, of course dating back at least to the 1930s, when the Museum of Modern Art, under its first director, Alfred H.

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Architect and academic Fritz Haeg, whose work has been exhibited at Tate Modern in London and the Whitney Museum of American Art, has written a book, "Edible Landscapes", in which he calls for our lawns to be replaced by beautiful spreads of fruit and vegetables.

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On the one hand, it created a much larger audience for modern art and even led to a change in American customs laws making contemporary art easier to import.

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In an otherwise glossy part of Midtown, just a few doors down from the ever-popular Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), stands the tiny, humble American Folk Art Museum.

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