MoMA threw its hat into the ring for New York’s opening season on 13 September with the show Kai Althoff: and then leave me to the common swifts (und dann überlasst mich den Mauerseglern), dedicated to the German artist. The congregants munched beef jerky and gossiped about the gallons of perfume the museum had to buy for the installation, all to the tune of a heavily 1980s playlist that Althoff himself had arranged (sample track: Bring On the Night by The Police). Most would have to return to see the show itself, though. The line to get in on the top floor wended all the way back to the Bruce Conner exhibition in the next gallery, prompting some to pop in there instead.
