The Thomas Walther Collection—341 photographs by 148 artists—represents the innovative vision of the 1920s and ’30s, a transformative period of modern photography and the foundation of our photo-based ...
In MoMA and UNIQLO’s new Art for All video series, we delve into an artist’s process and inspirations to reveal connections between art and life. In this episode, photographer Tyler Mitchell welcomes ...
Glenn D. Lowry became the sixth director of The Museum of Modern Art in 1995. He has overseen the physical transformation of the Museum’s campus through two building campaigns that have more than ...
Immerse yourself in ideas and see your world in new ways through art. In MoMA’s free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on Coursera, you will hear directly from artists and designers, look closely at ...
Curator, Deborah Wye: This work is titled Femme Maison. And that meant to Louise Bourgeois either “woman house” or “house woman” in French. She was a native of France and always went back and forth ...
GLENN LOWRY: By the 1970s, performance art had achieved a level of notoriety and even acceptance. However, because many artists used their bodies aggressively in their performances, it was often ...
Assistant Jerry Gorovoy: I'm Jerry Gorvoy, and I was Louise’s longtime assistant and now head of her foundation. Louise made many variants of Spider, but there is only one unique_ Spider/Cell,_ and it ...
GLENN LOWRY: Oldenburg created the large-scale soft sculptures Floor Burger, Floor Cone, and Floor Cake, for the 1962 installation of The Store at the Green Gallery in midtown Manhattan. CLAES ...
In April 2000, The Museum of Modern Art’s director, Glenn D. Lowry, joined other American museum directors to present testimony before the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets, ...
Immerse yourself in ideas and see your world in new ways through art. In MoMA’s free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on Coursera, you will hear directly from artists and designers, look closely at ...
Leah Dickerman: These "White Paintings" may not be prepossessing, but they're among the most radical statements about painting made in the middle of the 20th century. They are blank canvases stretched ...
Narrator: Edward James, a British poet and patron of Surrealism, commissioned Magritte to make this portrait in 1937, titled Not to be Reproduced. Curator, Art Institute of Chicago, Stephanie ...