11-22-63 [TO] 11-30-63 (1963) by Carl AndreTHAT'S CONTEMPORARY
Modern art has always had the power to divide opinion. Whether you're a "My kid could do that!" sceptic or a modern art lover, take a Street View tour of five of the world's best modern art galleries.
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Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Two galleries for the price of one! In 2006, the Gallery of Modern Art in Queensland, Australia, was opened to complement its neighbour, the Queensland Art Gallery. Together they're home to more than 17,000 artworks of all media, from Australia and around the world.
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Since the Gallery of Modern Art opened in 2006, the galleries have jointly hosted the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. The event presents the most exciting and important contemporary art from the region and aims to offer cross-cultural insight.
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National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Opened in 1952, this is Japan's first national art museum, and houses a huge collection of 20th Century Japanese, many of them of the Nihonga school, which drew on traditional Japanese craft to make contemporary artworks.
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Click and drag to wander the rooms of the large building, which was designed by Yoshirō Taniguchi, whose son Yoshio later designed an extension to the MOMA in New York.
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Power Station of Art, Shanghai
Another former power station, this time in Shanghai, China, on the left bank of the Huangpu River. The Power Station of Art is the city's foremost contemporary art museum, and since opening in 2012 has hosted the Shanghai Biennale.
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Since 1984, Shanghai has held a special position in China. The city is often described as one of the country's most forward-thinking, and the place to find the most fashionable art and culture. The Power Station reflects this.
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Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
This unashamed, hulking ode to high-tech architecture and contemporary culture landed in Paris in 1977, the vision of then-unknown architects Richard Rogers, Su Rogers, and Renzo Piano. Many hated it, but many more loved the 'inside out' structure.
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Guggenheim, Bilbao
The Guggenheim isn't just in New York. In 1997 the world-renowned gallery set up a new site in the Spanish city of Bilbao. The curved, reflective, steel structure is the unmistakable vision of American architect Frank Gehry.
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Of all the works in the Guggenheim, this simple curving wall of rusty steel is among the most impressive. Richard Serra's Snake draws on his earlier Tilted Arc, which fired up such controversy when it was first exhibited in Manhattan in 1981, that it was eventually cut up.
Perfectly Clear (Ganzfeld) (1991) by James TurrellMASS MoCA
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