Robert Moses exhibit to open

The Queens Museum of Art will be one of three museums that will soon be displaying the exhibition “Robert Moses and the Modern City.”
The exhibition, which will also be shown at the Museum of the City of New York and the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, will highlight the work of Robert Moses, who has been described as New York’s master builder. Moses, who lived from 1888 to 1981, helped to make New York City more accessible through the use of modern roads, “developing magnetic institutions,” and improving parks, among other things.
“Robert Moses and the Modern City” will include previously unseen models, historic objects, plans, vintage photographs and new photographs.
Portions of the exhibitions will only be at one of the three venues taking part in it. At the Queens Museum of Art, “Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Road to Recreation” will be on display from January 28 to May 27. This part of the exhibition will “document Moses’ massive 1930s expansion of the public realm and its connection to a matchless network of parkways in anticipation of the new auto mobility.”
“Slum Clearance and the Super Block Solution” will be at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery while the Museum of the City of New York will display “Remaking the Metropolis.”
The Queens Museum of Art is located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. For more information, call 718-592-9700 or visit www.queensmuseum.org.