CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/13/2013

Inventing Abstraction: Last Chance to See How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art
The Birth of Non-narrative Dance

Anyone who has not made it to MoMA to see the landmark exhibition, Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925: How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art, has one last chance this weekend. Run, do not walk, to see this universally acclaimed show, curated by Leah Dickerman to span all media—including painting, drawing, print publication, sculpture, film, photography, sound poetry, atonal music and non-narrative dance—which The New York Times' Roberta Smith called "a marvel of a diagram, a creative circuitry variously visual, aural and kinetic, whose radiating lines yield new sights and insights at every juncture." Featured photograph, by Hugo Erfurth, is of Mary Wigman performing "Hexentanz I (Witch Dance 1)" in 1914. Reproduced from MoMA's equally essential exhibition catalog, it can also be seen alongside an extract from the 1930 film, "Mary Wigman Tanzt" on the Inventing Abstraction Website.