“Joan Miró: Birth of the World”

The Modern dips into its superb holdings of works by Miró (1893–1983) to survey the pioneering Modernist known for fluid dreamscapes populated by biomorphic forms that walked the line between abstraction and figuration. Bolstered by loans from other collection, the show pays special attention to the development of the artist’s pictorial language and the role poetry played in inspiring it. With some 60 artworks spanning the period between 1920 and the early 1950s, the exhibit revisits Miró’s vital place in the annals of 20th-century art.