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1. The first treasure on our tour is MoMA's new building itself. The six-story structure covers an entire Manhattan city block and has appreciably increased the space available for displaying the Museum's more than 150,000 works of art. How is Yoshio Taniguchi associated with this renovation?
2. Claude Monet painted only one "Water Lily" masterpiece in his life, and New York's Museum of Modern Art owns it.
3. For many of us, "Modern Art" means "Picasso". MoMA cherishes and displays many of his works, including the Cubist "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" from 1907. Who or what are the five females pictured in the painting?
4. In MoMA's sculpture garden and elsewhere in the museum, you will find works by all of these artists. Who is particularly famous for "mobiles" and "stabiles"?
5. She painted "Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair" (1940) and 1937's "Fulang-Chang and Me", both owned by MoMA.
6. A painting that almost always has a crowd of people looking at it is "Christina's World", which depicts a young girl lying on the ground and looking across a field at a house. What American painter produced this popular work of art?
7. A new and exciting art movement was born in New York in the 1940s. The Museum of Modern Art is proud to display works by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, among others. What is the name given to these artists and their movement?
8. Which of the following is the largest object in MoMA's Architecture and Design collection?
9. Although he is most famous for his "soup can" pop art and his silk-screened portraits of celebrities and himself, this artist also made films and will forever be famous for stating "In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes."
10. Finally, it wouldn't be a visit to MoMA without seeing "The Starry Night". Which of these facts about this stunning painting are TRUE?
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