MoMA Upends Its Collection to Celebrate Late Careers

Joan Jonas’s “Reanimation,” a video-sculpture installation that mixes Arctic landscapes, folk tales, music and hanging glass, is a recent acquisition by the Museum of Modern Art. The piece is part of the museum’s exhibition “The Long Run.”
"What good is an art collection if a museum doesn’t shake it up once in a while? The Museum of Modern Art has increasingly been acting on this principle. Its latest upending is 'The Long Run,' a yearlong installation that is utterly engaging if slightly mild: around 130 works of art spread throughout the galleries and hallways of its fourth floor. With a couple of exceptions, these works have been made since 1970 by, as the title implies, artists with careers of some length. The presentation forsakes the myth of Modernism that the Modern is identified with — of art as ceaseless progress fomented almost entirely by the innovations of ambitious young (white) men. ..."
NY Times