MoMA Sculpture Garden

We visited the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York today. This is a blip of the sculpture garden from the second floor, with a small section of the ground-floor restaurant in the foreground. Sculptures that I recognize are a standing figure by Giacometti (at the extreme left of the image), and one of a series of reliefs by Matisse (on the rear wall at the right). (View it all large.) (I had to take it through an array of horizontal slats, with streaks that couldn't be avoided.)

We came to MoMA to see a a major retrospective exhibition of De Kooning. But more interesting was an utterly fascinating show of murals by Diego Rivera which he did for an exhibition at the museum in 1931, most of which had not been exhibited since. Rivera was perhaps the greatest Mexican painter of the 20th century--a committed communist who married Frida Kahlo and was best known for his murals.