Expectations for a future of unlimited potential abounded in the period of political liberation and decolonization across the African continent. In 1957, Ghana peacefully gained independence from ...

If you would like to reproduce an image of a work of art in MoMA’s collection, or an image of a MoMA publication or archival material (including installation views, checklists, and press releases), ...

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 ...

Samora Pinderhughes is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, and filmmaker who uses his art to examine sociopolitical issues and fight for change. His practice broadly encompasses sound, performance, ...

Elena Subach is a visual artist and photographer based in Lviv, Ukraine. She is currently researching the legacy of the photographer and filmmaker Yulian Dorosh and Lviv photography from the first ...

Dorothea Lange captures the human condition through words and pictures.

“M. Giorgio de Chirico has just bought a pink rubber glove”—so wrote the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire in July of 1914, noting the purchase because, he went on to say, he knew the glove’s ...

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 ...

Edward Hopper produced closely observed urban views, landscapes (largely of New England), and interior scenes—all either devoid of or sparsely populated by people. Though he insisted that his ...

Louise Bourgeois Has the Day Invaded the Night, or Has the Night Invaded the Day?, no. 5 of 9, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem? 1999 ...

These works are part of the Museum's Provenance Research Project, which examines the ownership history of objects in our collection.

Between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, Barbara Kruger, working as a graphic designer for popular magazines, gained recognition in the art world for photo-based images overlaid with blocks of text ...