Museum of Modern Art （New York）

How do different contemporary cultural practices—from experimental architecture to performance to fashion design—address methodological and ethical questions regarding the indigenous? In the last few years we have witnessed a renewed attention to the indigenous in the art world. This focus on indigenous thinking and politics from Latin America appears to emerge from indigenous communities’ strategic […]

Glamour, snubs, surprises, tears, laughter—emotions and stakes run high at the Academy Awards. Now the exclamation point at the end of a long awards season, the Oscars have represented the pinnacle of achievement in the American film industry for over ninety years. The ups and downs the Academy faces in our broad cultural consciousness demand […]

How does MoMA care for the over 30,000 photos in the Museum’s collection? Tune in at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, February 27 to get a behind-the-scenes tour of The Museum of Modern Art’s Photo Conservation Studio to see how photos are treated and repaired, followed by a Live Q&A with curator Sarah Meister and conservator […]

How does MoMA care for the over 30,000 photos in the Museum’s collection? Tune in at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, February 27 to get a behind-the-scenes tour of The Museum of Modern Art’s Photo Conservation Studio to see how photos are treated and repaired, followed by a Live Q&A with curator Sarah Meister and conservator […]

“You and all my writer friends have given me much help and improved my understanding of many things,” Joan Miró told the French poet Michel Leiris in the summer of 1924, writing from his family’s farm in Montroig, a small village nestled between the mountains and the sea in his native Catalonia. The next year, […]

Join us for the sixth annual Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, an all-day communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to gender, art, and feminism. The edit-a-thon kicks off with a conversation exploring visibility and vulnerability, featuring writer and archivist Che Gossett, performance artist, writer, and educator Alok Vaid-Menon, and Simone Browne, an associate professor in […]

“I have a live eye,” proclaimed Lincoln Kirstein, signaling his wide-ranging vision. Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern explores this polymath’s sweeping contributions to American cultural life in the 1930s and ’40s. Best known for cofounding New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet with George Balanchine, Kirstein (1907–1996), a writer, critic, curator, impresario, and tastemaker, […]

Myriad recent cultural and political events—among them the debris surrounding the 2016 US election, the #metoo movement, and the latest Supreme Court confirmation hearings—have reawakened a public discussion on the centuries-old power structure that contemplates the unabated supremacy of white men. The label “white man” is now actively used in public discourse and acknowledged as […]

Today, when technology seems utterly smooth and weightless—composed of invisible waves, wireless signals, abstract codes—New Order explores the ways in which these systems are still stubbornly tied to the physical world. Drawn entirely from MoMA’s collection, the works included highlight the uneasy coexistence of intelligent networks and dumb stuff, high tech and raw material, the […]

Artist and activist Nancy Spero produced a radical body of work that confronted oppression and inequality while challenging the aesthetic orthodoxies of contemporary art. Spero drew on archetypal representations of women across various cultures and times in an attempt to reframe history itself from a perspective that she termed “woman as protagonist.” Organized by artist […]