“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take ...

Untitled (Nomsa with Africa) I started wearing my hair in an Afro in 1968, at age 14. Though I didn’t know Kwame Brathwaite then, I am sure I was affected by the Black Is Beautiful movement he ...

Two of Mexico’s most beloved icons of 20th-century art, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, portrayed themselves in their work. Kahlo famously created many intimate self-portraits, while Rivera occasionally ...

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 ...

Photography at MoMA: 1840–1920 Edited by Quentin Bajac, Lucy Gallun, Roxana Marcoci, and Sarah Hermanson Meister, 2017 Hardcover, 376 pages The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today ...

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

Volkswagen of America is proud to be MoMA’s lead partner of learning and engagement. Generous support for School and Teacher Programs is provided by the Carroll and Milton Petrie Education Program ...

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, ...

Part 1. Searching for Iemanjá: On the Move If you’re looking for Iemanjá in Salvador, Brazil, you’ll find traces of Her wherever you go. In the touristy Pelourinho neighborhood, Her smiling face ...

At the height of Cold War tensions, deploying such a media-technical apparatus in service of world peace might have seemed an urgent task for artists, technological advances having long fueled ...

Make your own home movie. We challenge you to momentarily leave our homebound present by creating a short home movie set in the past or the future—get creative with filters, props, and costumes and ...

Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor's landmark photobook An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion weaves together text drawn from field notes, folk song lyrics, newspaper excerpts, sociological ...