Blockbuster exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art underscores the relationship between New York City and the explosion of creative activity among the artists who lived there in the postwar period. Learn why New York became the center of the art world in the 1950s and about the movement that originated there. With examples of paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, and other materials that define the time, from Gorky, Reinhardt, Rothko, Pollack, Kline, de Kooning, and others.