Description: The Museum of Modern Art presents an installation that will, for the first time since the Museum's reopening in 2004, feature the full group of Claude Monet's late paintings in the collection. These include a mural-sized triptych (Water Lilies, 1914–26) and a single-panel painting of the water lilies in the Japanese-style pond that Monet cultivated on his property in Giverny, France (Water Lilies, 1914–26), as well as The Japanese Footbridge (c. 1920–22) and Agapanthus (1914–26), depicting the majestic plants in the pond's vicinity. These paintings have long held a special status with the Museum's audiences and, much like MoMA's Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, they provide a modern oasis in the center of midtown Manhattan. These works will be complemented by two loans of closely related paintings.

Venue Description: MoMA's rich and varied collection constitutes one of the most comprehensive and panoramic views into modern art in the world, and has grown to include over 135,000 paintings, prints, photographs, drawings, sculptures, films, and design objects. Visitors to New York City should make sure to stop in and view the collection during their vacations. Founded in 1929 as an educational institution, The Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world. Central to The Museum of Modern Art?s mission is the encouragement of an ever-deeper understanding and enjoyment of modern and contemporary art by the diverse local, national, and international audiences that it serves. The Museum of Modern Art seeks to create a dialogue between the established and the experimental, the past and the present, in an environment that is responsive to the issues of modern and contemporary art, while being accessible to a public that ranges from scholars to young children. MoMA also has three restaurants on the premises: Café 2, is the museum?s sophisticated cafeteria; Terrace 5 is a full-service café where guests can indulge in creative savory selections, delectable pastries and ice cream sundaes, inventive specialty cocktails, micro-brewed beers, and carefully selected wines; and The Modern offers the original, Alsatian-inspired cuisine of Chef Gabriel Kreuther, recently awarded three stars by The New York Times.

Museum Hours: Saturday 10:30 a.m.?5:30 p.m. Sunday 10:30 a.m.?5:30 p.m. Monday 10:30 a.m.?5:30 p.m. Tuesday closed. Wednesday 10:30 a.m.?5:30 p.m. Thursday 10:30 a.m.?5:30 p.m. Friday 10:30 a.m.?8:00 p.m.

Upcoming Events at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA):

• Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography - 05/07/10 - 03/21/11
  
• Contemporary Art from the Collection - 06/30/10 - 09/12/10
  
• Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 - 07/18/10 - 10/11/10
  
• The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today - 08/01/10 - 11/01/10
  
• Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen - 09/15/10 - 03/14/10