A cow in rubber boots was a performance artist. The exhibition hall became a cinema for uncensored underground films. People improvised without limits and works of art that are today among our culture's greatest art treasures were built on site from objects from Stockholm's garbage dumps and hardware stores. The Western world's art scene was New York, which the then museum director Pontus Hultén was the first to understand. He opened up to the volcano of energy that erupted. Thanks to the close friendships he created during a few tumultuous years in the 1960s, Moderna Museet in Stockholm has one of the world's most valuable collections from this golden age. Pontus Hultén, Robert Rauschenberg, James Roenquist, George Segal, Robert Whitman, Alfred Leslie, Mimi Gross and Robert Breer talk about themselves and the history of Moderna Museet, which began on Skeppsholmen 30 years ago.
