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| Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC) | |
|---|---|
| Name | Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC) |
| Native name | Museo de Arte Contemporáneo |
| Established | 20th century |
| Location | City |
| Type | Art museum |
| Director | Director |
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC) is a major institution dedicated to contemporary visual arts, presenting exhibitions, collections, and programs by national and international artists. It engages with curatorial practices, artistic networks, and cultural policy through rotating shows, research initiatives, and public outreach. The museum operates within urban cultural circuits and collaborates with universities, foundations, and biennials.
The founding phase involved collaborations among figures and institutions such as Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Andy Warhol, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, Yayoi Kusama, Louise Bourgeois, Jasper Johns, Anselm Kiefer, Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramović, Ai Weiwei, Takashi Murakami, Cindy Sherman, Gerhard Richter, Kara Walker, El Anatsui, Olafur Eliasson, Yoko Ono, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne, Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Georges Braque, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Helen Frankenthaler, Eva Hesse, Donald Judd, Richard Serra, Ellsworth Kelly, Claes Oldenburg, Joseph Kosuth, Ad Reinhardt, Sean Scully, Anish Kapoor, Thomas Hirschhorn, Rachel Whiteread, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Tracey Emin, Doris Salcedo, Martha Rosler, Günther Uecker, Arman, Gilbert & George, Christian Boltanski . Early leadership drew on municipal cultural agencies, private patrons, and international curators associated with events like the Venice Biennale, Documenta, Whitney Biennial, and São Paulo Art Biennial. The museum's chronology links to urban renewal projects and cultural policy reforms exemplified by collaborations with universities such as University of Oxford, Harvard University, University of Cambridge, Yale University, Columbia University, Sorbonne University, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and research centers like the Getty Research Institute and the Smithsonian Institution. Major acquisitions and landmark exhibitions referenced exchanges with galleries including Gagosian Gallery, David Zwirner, Tate Modern, Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, Guggenheim Museum, Louvre Museum, National Gallery, Prado Museum, Museo Reina Sofía, Rijksmuseum, Stedelijk Museum, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo Tamayo, Palais de Tokyo, and collectors linked to foundations like the McArthur Foundation and the Ford Foundation.
The building program engaged architects and firms such as Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Renzo Piano, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Santiago Calatrava, Tadao Ando, I.M. Pei, Luis Barragán, Oscar Niemeyer, Enric Miralles, Rafael Moneo, Jean Nouvel, Richard Rogers, Herzog & de Meuron, SANAA, OMA, Bjarke Ingels Group, Gehry Partners, Sverre Fehn, Mario Botta, Alvaro Siza Vieira, Kengo Kuma, David Adjaye, Shigeru Ban, Arata Isozaki, Toyo Ito, Peter Zumthor, Kisho Kurokawa in planning, renovation, and expansion phases. Facilities include galleries, a conservation laboratory, a library and archives, an auditorium, education studios, a bookstore, and storage designed to meet standards promoted by organizations like the International Council of Museums and the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property. The museum's site planning intersects with urban projects such as High Line (New York City), Paseo del Prado, La Rambla, Piazza del Popolo, Plaza Mayor, Zócalo, and transport links like Metro systems and central railway stations.
The permanent collection and temporary programs span media and movements associated with artists and institutions such as Claude Monet, Édouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, Gustave Courbet, Édouard Vuillard, Georges Seurat, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Diane Arbus, Robert Mapplethorpe, Man Ray, Brassaï, August Sander, André Kertész, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander, Sonia Delaunay, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Ansel Adams, Gordon Matta-Clark, Allan Kaprow, Yves Klein, Carl Andre, Bruce Nauman, Laurie Anderson, Nam June Paik, Marcel Broodthaers, Hito Steyerl, Isa Genzken, Michael Heizer, Nancy Spero, Kiki Smith, Gabriel Orozco, Damián Ortega, Cildo Meireles, Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Tarsila do Amaral, Wifredo Lam, Rufino Tamayo, Joaquín Torres-García, Fernando Botero, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Jesús Rafael Soto, Victor Vasarely, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Op art, Minimalism, Conceptual art, Performance art, Installation art, and exhibitions co-curated with institutions like Museo de Arte Moderno, Instituto de Cultura, Fondation Cartier, and Kunsthalle Bern. The museum hosts retrospectives, thematic surveys, and commissioned projects that engage with archives of figures such as Hannah Arendt, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Guy Debord, Susanne Langer, and social movements documented by historians linked to Black Lives Matter, Me Too movement, and labor movements in exhibition programs.
Educational initiatives draw on partnerships with universities and schools including Princeton University, New York University, University of California, Berkeley, University of São Paulo, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Universidad de Buenos Aires, University of Tokyo, and arts organizations such as Alliance Française, Goethe-Institut, British Council, Instituto Cervantes, Asia Society, and Asia Art Archive. Public lectures and symposia feature critics and curators affiliated with journals and institutions like Artforum, ArtReview, Frieze, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Le Monde, El País, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Der Spiegel, and broadcasters such as BBC, NPR, Deutsche Welle, CBC, Al Jazeera. Learning programs include school visits, guided tours, artist residencies, and community outreach aligned with cultural festivals including Bienal de São Paulo, Venice Biennale, Art Basel, Frieze Art Fair, Documenta.
Research units collaborate with the Getty Conservation Institute, ICOMOS, UNESCO, Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress, British Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, National Gallery of Art, Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, and university labs at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Princeton University, University College London, and ETH Zurich. Conservation projects address materials and techniques associated with artists such as J.M.W. Turner, Eugène Delacroix, Edvard Munch, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and contemporary media conservation challenges involving digital art, new media, and installation works created by figures like Olafur Eliasson, Ryoji Ikeda, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, James Turrell, Bill Viola, Laurie Anderson, Pipilotti Rist, and Kader Attia.
Governance structures include boards of trustees, advisory councils and collaborations with cultural ministries and municipal agencies, and philanthropic entities such as the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, Prince Claus Fund, Getty Foundation, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Corporate partnerships have involved firms like Google Arts & Culture, Microsoft, Apple Inc., Santander, BBVA, Citigroup, and banks engaged in arts sponsorship. Funding strategies blend public subsidies, private donations, endowments, ticketing, memberships, and revenue from retail and event rental, following governance models compared with institutions such as Tate Modern, Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Centre Pompidou, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Critical reception references coverage in media outlets and scholarship from critics and historians tied to Clement Greenberg, Harold Rosenberg, Rosalind Krauss, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Yve-Alain Bois, Lucy Lippard, Griselda Pollock, T.J. Clark, Michael Fried, Robert Hughes, John Berger, Arthur Danto, Denise Scott Brown, Rem Koolhaas, and curatorial debates framed by exhibitions at Serpentine Galleries, Hayward Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Mori Art Museum, Kunstmuseum Basel, Guggenheim Bilbao, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Walker Art Center, Hammer Museum, and international art fairs. The museum's programs influence collecting trends, curatorial training, and cultural tourism assessed in reports by bodies such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, UNESCO World Heritage Committee, and national cultural institutes.