“I’ve always had overlapping ways of going about my work,” Bruce Nauman once remarked. “I’ve never been able to stick to one thing.” 1 For more than 50 years, he has worked in every conceivable ...

The human body is central to how we understand facets of identity such as gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity. People alter their bodies, hair, and clothing to align with or rebel against social ...

This work is included in the Provenance Research Project, which investigates the ownership history of works in MoMA's collection. The artist Louis Süe (1875-1968), Paris. Gift from the artist Galerie ...

Sundial belongs to Clark's Animals series, begun in 1960—a group of metal sculptures whose forms can be endlessly modified. The works in this series are flat, curving structures that fold in different ...

Gabriele Münter quoted in Annegret Hobert, Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter: Letters and Reminiscences 1902–1914 (Munich and New York: Prestel, 1994), 54. Münter quoted in Hobert, Wassily ...

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?” ...

How does color make you feel? Join meditation artist Dora Kamau for an eight-minute guided audio meditation that explores the spectrum of emotions and energies associated with each color. We’ll delve ...

When conservators Michael Duffy and Emily Mulvihill began the process of restoring Andy Warhol’s Gold Marilyn Monroe (1962), they discovered that all that glitters isn’t gold. The title is a bit of a ...

In this four-episode series, hosted by senior curator Paola Antonelli, guests examine our fragile ties to the environment.

Download a PDF of Hank Willis Thomas’s Colonialism and Abstract Art Hank Willis Thomas helps us reimagine the world we think we know. More than a decade ago he removed the brand references from ...

We celebrate the artist through his words and voice, and some words from those who knew him.

When curators Leah Dickerman, Luis Pérez-Oramas, and I began to discuss our plans for creating a new gallery dedicated to Mexican Modernist art made in the 1930s and 1940s—which opened in May of this ...