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MoMA Highlights: 375 Works from The Museum of Modern Art Introduction by Glenn D. Lowry, 2019 Flexibound, 408 pages MoMA Now: Highlights from The Museum of Modern Art—Ninetieth Anniversary Edition ...
“The more you look, the more you see,” says Anne Umland, The Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, of Remedios Varo’s painting The Juggler. The Juggler is this ...
How do you bypass your thinking mind to make art? Surrealists played the game Exquisite Corpse to stimulate creativity through collaboration. Players would contribute to a drawing of a figure without ...
Louise Lawler’s work looks at the lives of artworks in museums, private collections, gallery backrooms, storage spaces, and auction houses, examining how meaning changes with different types of ...
Elizabeth Catlett ’s terra cotta sculpture Mother and Child stands less than a foot off of its pedestal, but it feels much larger. It conveys an expansiveness that comes, to my mind, from the uncanny ...
Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother —made on the edge of a frozen pea field in Nipomo, California, while she was working for the US government in early March 1936—is arguably the most famous photograph ...
Brainstorming for the Artful Practices for Well-Being initiative, we asked ourselves, “What do people need right now? What will people need going forward? How can we help? What are our parameters?” ...
Explore Vincent van Gogh’s beloved painting in astonishing detail in this behind-the-scenes look at a new imaging tool.
Mutu’s diptych Yo Mama pays tribute to Funmilayo Anikulapo-Kuti, the mother of the famous Afrobeat musician Fela Kuti. A pioneering feminist, said to have been the first woman in Nigeria to drive a ...
Hear from artists, writers, and therapists about what happens when art and grief collide.
Nicole Fleetwood’s interest in the art making of imprisonment grew out of a project she began while visiting loved ones in prison. Her interviews with artists and activists about their experiences of ...
As the tricks became more complicated (and cinema’s audience more savvy), accomplishing them relied on inventors like Kenneth Strickfaden (American, 1896–1984), who began building machines and other ...