Wright not only welcomed this hypothetical migration, he sought to design it. At the 1935 National Alliance of Arts and Industry Exposition at Rockefeller Center, he unveiled a massive, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Best known for his production of sculptural machines, Swiss artist Jean Tinguely exhibited mechanical works such as this one in the groundbreaking 1955 exhibition Le Mouvement at the Galerie Denise ...

“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 ...

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, ...

MoMA is committed to making its collection and programming accessible to all audiences. Staff and educator training is an essential aspect of this goal. Disability equity is a fundamental principle at ...

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Pee-wee as Himself, Matt Wolf’s surprisingly frank documentary about Paul Reubens, has an unusual goal. “I wanted to make a portrait of Paul as an artist,” Wolf says, “and not to tell the story of the ...