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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 ...
“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 ...
MoMA | Meet MeAbout The MoMA Alzheimer's Project 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 ...
Associated art terms include Architecture, Furniture and interiors, and Installation. Read an interview with Frank O. Gehry on Magazine ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The important thing to remember here is that the drawings came first. The rest is timing, serendipity, and a healthy dose of nepotism. That’s how you explain the fact that Raymond Pettibon isn’t crazy ...
Over the course of this last year, MoMA’s photography curators and colleagues from the Archives, Library, and Research Collections met regularly to discuss new photobooks, sharing books by artists ...
How do words and pictures work together? Dorothea Lange took great care in combining photographs with words to communicate the stories of everyday life. When I began working with curator Sarah Meister ...
Louise Lawler’s work looks at the lives of artworks in museums, private collections, gallery backrooms, storage spaces, and auction houses, examining how meaning changes with different types of ...