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In MoMA and UNIQLO’s Art for All video series, we explore an artist’s unique approach to capturing the world around them. In this episode, filmmaker John Wilson invites us into his world, where his ...
Discover how a uniquely modern American art form found a home at a uniquely modern American museum. Through original recordings, archival audio, and new interviews with jazz legends like Sonny Rollins ...
See below for a transcript of the SoundCloud audio. Dr. Rachel Herz, neuroscientist: Scent is at the lowest rank for our senses in terms of just general public opinion. I mean, we recently did a study ...
Afrique sur Seine (1955) was a film ahead of its time. Formally, it was a bridge between Italian Neorealism of the 1940s—a style of filmmaking that evoked the hardships of war, from impoverishment and ...
I grew up a hundred miles from the nearest art museum, in the infinite flatness of rural Kansas. A fifth-grade field trip brought the first opportunity to visit an art museum, where I found myself ...
January 27 is also the eve of the birthday of the poet, philosopher, and political theorist José Martí, in whose name the Cuban nation has been built and destroyed so many times. To commemorate the ...
These ideas are a point of departure for the exhibition opening this week at MoMA, Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, as well as a new online course, Reimagining Blackness and ...
Alfred Barr was committed to showing the type of art endangered by the Nazis overseas, so he devoted his 1935 and 1936 summer campaigns to preparing exhibitions that introduced the American public to ...
Reweaving Ourselves: Contemporary Ecology through the Ideas of Juan Downey is the second online conference organized by the Cisneros Institute at MoMA and conceived by guest curator Julieta González ...
What is Echo? Echo is the title of a work that you can see in the new lobby of MoMA. When I do an exhibition, I always start with the space; in this case, the space didn’t exist because the Museum was ...
Just as historical time moves without linear progression, the narrative time of Salacia ebbs and flows so that the words with which Jones begins seem to touch her last utterances. Salacia opens with a ...
We meet them in their homes: Carol appears lost in hers, a Tudor mansion decorated with Marcel Breuer chairs and the kind of severely modern furniture that lends it the appearance of an upscale ...