MoMA The Museum of Modern Art (Venue Partner)
11 W 53rd St
212.708.9400
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Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #43, 1979, Courtesy MoMA
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Mar 29, 2009 – June 8, 2009
Mondays (10:30am–5:30pm)
Wednesdays–Thursdays (10:30am–5:30pm)
Fridays (10:30am–8pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (10:30am–5:30pm)
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- Price
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$20
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Note:
Admission is free Friday evenings from 4-8pm.
From Zane Grey's far-fetched dime novels to homespun images describing a seemingly limitless stretch of adventure, the American West — as abstraction before actual space — has been a bottomless wellspring for artists. The region's many representations — whether exalted as the Land of Free Will or examined as a lawless free-for-all — contain, to echo Fitzgerald, "something commensurate to [our] capacity for wonder." Using photographs dating as far back as 1850, Into the Sunset surveys how the medium has enlarged imaginations for better or worse; after all, it helped manifest our windswept concept of destiny. Over 70 photographers have a say, including Edward Weston, Cindy Sherman, and Timothy O'Sullivan — who shot his unadorned, Go-West landscapes during a government expedition.
