MoMA

A long-overdue cleaning reveals a world of vibrant color in a Séraphine Louis's 1928 painting "Tree of Paradise." Heidi Hirschl Orley, MoMA assistant director of Curatorial Affairs, talks about…

Veronika Molnar, an intern in the Department of Media and Performance, discusses the calming effect—and global influences—of Constantin Brancusi’s 1913 sculpture Mlle Pogany at MoMA…

This “maximally efficient” 1926 kitchen design inspires family memories—and a career path. Andrew Gardner, curatorial assistant in the Department of Architecture and Design, visits his spices in…

MoMA development officer Jamie Bergos is brave enough to get up close with Maria Martins’s 1946 sculpture "The Impossible, III," and wonders if its ambiguity—Are the figures fighting? Merging?—is…

 

A MoMA conservator considers the missing pieces of Noah Purifoy’s assemblage "Unknown," and its relation to Pop art.

Alexander Calder reimagined sculpture as an experiment in space and motion, upending centuries-old notions that sculpture should be static, grounded, and dense by making artworks that often move…

At a time when we could all use more beauty in our lives, “the Water Lilies have our back.” An appropriately dressed Chet Gold, manager in MoMA's Security department, talks about his spiritual…
The Museum of Modern Art announces Alexander Calder: Modern from the Start, a focused look at one of the most well-known and beloved artists of the twentieth century through the lens of his…

How does race structure America’s cities? MoMA’s first exhibition to explore the relationship between architecture and the spaces of African American and African diaspora communities,

Yayoi Kusama explored symbols of our ability to start afresh even in the darkest times in some of her early works,…

Alaina Boukedes, a guest specialist in MoMA's Department of Visitor Engagement, talks about the “unpredictability” of her favorite piece in the MoMA, Philippe Parreno’s installation Echo.
Paulina Pobocha, associate curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA, talks about one of the “most significant works made during the second half of the 20th century”: October 18,…
Engineer, Agitator, Constructor will showcase the activities of historical avant-gardes, including galvanizing works of Dada, Bauhaus, De Stijl, Futurism, and Russian Constructivism, and highlights…
In the long months of the COVID-19 lockdown, many citizens have found their cities emptied of human presence and transformed into places of eerie unfamiliarity. Conversely, this experience has…
This major gift to the Museum of Modern Art comprises more than 300 works by 103 photographers.