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Two Sisters and Two Tongues

Lorna Simpson

1991

A museum of contemporary art is different from the general art museum where the values of the past are enshrined. Instead it is a place where new ideas are shown and tested.

—Essay by the MCA founders, “From Dream to Reality,” 1966

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