THOMAS J. LAX: In 1962, Carolee Schneemann began her performances at Judson Dance Theater. CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN: I thought of Meat Joy as an erotic ritual for my starved culture, with the body extended ...

One of the most influential characterizations of clock time was in Lewis Mumford’s book Technics and Civilization, in which ...

Marlon Mullen began using this print material as subject matter for his paintings in the mid-1990s. But over the last decade, ...

In 2018–19, MoMA collaborated with Google Arts & Culture Lab on a project using machine learning to identify artworks in installation photos. That project has concluded, and works are now being ...

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 ...

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 ...

MoMA has so much on display, across so many galleries and floors, that it can be hard to know where to begin. Whether you’re visiting with kids, you only have an hour, or you’ve been before and are ...

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The MoMA Alzheimer's Project was a special initiative in the Museum's Department of Education.The initiative took place from 2007 to 2014 and was generously funded by MetLife Foundation. During this ...

The collection is arranged chronologically (and alphabetically, within the year). The Papers are organized into two Series: ...

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 ...

One morning in the summer of 1952, Matisse told his studio assistant and secretary Lydia Delectorskaya that “he wanted to see divers,” so they set out to a favorite pool in Cannes. Suffering under the ...