Color theory is now a tool for interpreting art history. This is the first major exhibition devoted to the pivotal transformation from the subjectively chosen, hand-mixed color palette of old and modern masters to the triumph of commercial readymade color in contemporary art.

Color Chart features 90 works —paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, digital art, videos, and films—by 44 contemporary artists rarely considered together. This colorful curatorial playground opens with pioneer Marcel Duchamp's final painting Tu m' (1918) and includes site-specific installations such as Damien Hirst's spot painting, John, John (1988), painted directly onto a wall, while Daniel Buren has created silk vests in five different colors of his signature stripes to be worn by the Museum's security guards. Other works rarely seen by American audiences from Gerhard Richter, Giulio Paolini, André Cadere, and François Morellet will also be present.

Color Chart offers a brilliant exchange of dialogue surrounding one of the most essential elements of visual expression.

Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today
March 2 through May 12, 2008

The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street
New York, NY 10019
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