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How can art spark change in times of massive political, technological, and social upheaval?
Discover how Aleksandr Rodchenko, Hannah Höch, Lyubov Popova, John Heartfield, and more created new art for a changed world in "Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented," opening this Sunday at MoMA. Learn more: mo.ma/2UyQW9p
Member Previews: Engineer, Agitator, Constructor begin Dec. 10.
We asked Sofia Coppola, Judd Apatow, Cynthia Erivo, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Johan Renck, and Patty Jenkins about what inspired them to dedicate their life to film, and why it's so important to help sustain and preserve the art form. Watch the full film: moma.org/support/chanel
Support film preservation with a ticket to tonight's MoMA Film Benefit: Honoring George Clooney, presented by CHANEL: mo.ma/37l5v5d
📝 Martin Wong often added text to his drawings to share his experiences. Draw something you see from your window and add words to record the moment.
Inspired by boundary-breaking artists of “Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury,” this month's #CreativityLabAtHome challenge is to Draw with Anything. Explore the exhibition: mo.ma/degreezero
📝 Martin Wong often added text to his drawings to share his experiences. Draw something you see from your window and add words to record the moment.
Inspired by boundary-breaking artists of “Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury,” this month's #CreativityLabAtHome challenge is to Draw with Anything. Explore the exhibition: mo.ma/degreezero
“Gordon Parks presented a picture of crime in the U.S. that managed to preserve the anonymity of so-called criminals, and by doing that, undermined whether or not we should be considering them criminals at all.”
Curator Sarah Meister reflects on Parks's 1957 Life magazine photo essay, The Atmosphere of Crime, now on view in our galleries.
Journey into Vincent van Gogh’s unforgettable painting tonight in our Virtual Views: Van Gogh’s Starry Night, a Live Q&A with a performative reading of the extraordinary letters between the artist and his brother Theo by acclaimed actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith. Start exploring: mo.ma/virtualstarrynight
Thank you Bank of America for making the conservation and presentation of our collection possible.
Join David Letterman and more surprise celebrity guests for a special virtual evening at this year’s MoMA Film Benefit: Honoring George Clooney, presented by CHANEL on December 7. Get a ticket with a $25 donation to Artist Relief: unitedstatesartists.org/moma
General Idea's Magi© Bullet fills our gallery with pill-shaped mylar balloons. As helium levels decrease, they fall; you are invited to take a deflated one home with you.
The installation gradually disappears over time, evoking the lives needlessly lost to AIDS. #WorldAIDSDay
Act fast! 20% off sitewide at MoMA Design Store ends at midnight tonight. Find gifts for everyone, from artist-inspired games to cozy slippers. Use code HURRY: mo.ma/gifts
Discover the extraordinary story of how one woman, Margaret
Scolari Barr, helped MoMA save artist refugees during World War II: mo.ma/33cqzcF
Explore our #MoMAVirtualViews: mo.ma/surrealistwomen
Discover the extraordinary story of how one woman, Margaret Scolari Barr, helped MoMA save artist refugees during World War II.
Bored at home? Grab your quarantine squad and learn how to make an Exquisite Corpse, the Surrealists' favorite party game: mo.ma/377UXX4
L: Cadavre Exquis by Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, Max Morise, Man Ray; R: by André Breton, Jacques Hérold, Yves Tanguy, Victor Brauner #MoMAVirtualViews
📬 Hacer un cadáver exquisito a través de enviarlo a amigos por correo postal. Inspírate en artistas como Remedios Varo y Eugenio Dittborn. Explora #MoMAVirtualViewslas Mujeres surrealistas: mo.ma/surrealistwomen
El desafío #CreativityLabAtHome de este mes: crea arte con el elemento del azar.
Did you know kids 16 and under always get in free at MoMA?
Have an art adventure with your family. Explore the Museum together with special audio, gallery labels, and activity guides for kids.
A limited number of tickets for November and December are still available—book today: mo.ma/tickets
Thanksgiving looks different for many Americans today, but in a year that has brought so many challenges, expressing our gratitude is one tradition we're glad to keep.
We'd like to share our deepest thanks to our incredible staff, visitors, all of you in our global online community, and to the frontline workers who have been tirelessly keeping New Yorkers safe. We're thankful for art that speaks to our moment and to our spirits. We're thankful for the New York City skyline on a clear night. What are you thankful for?
MoMA is closed for the holiday today but open on Friday and for the rest of the long weekend. Come celebrate the season with us! Learn more about visiting us safely at the link in our bio.
🌉 Richard Bosman. "Brooklyn Bridge." 1996
Good design. Great gifting. Today through Saturday, save $20 when you spend $100+, $40 off when you spend $200+ at MoMA Design Store. Use code MOMAGIFTS. mo.ma/gifts
"There was something about Surrealism—with its emphasis on the dream, fantasy, the unconscious, and reshaping society—that gave women artists this sense of freedom and possibility."
Explore works by women artists in our Surrealism galleries with curator Anne Umland, play the exquisite corpse game, & more in our #MoMAVirtualViews: mo.ma/surrealistwomen
Tonight at 8 p.m., join Anne Umland and Broad City star Abbi Jacobson
Virtual Views: Surrealist Women, a Live Q&A as they explore the legacy of Surrealism and women’s crucial role in the movement: mo.ma/2Ht6dV6
🙈 Improve your observational skills and let chance take over as you learn how to make blind contour drawings.
This month's #CreativityLabAtHome challenge: let go and make art with the element of chance. Explore more art-making prompts: mo.ma/30ufcfj
Japanese designer Aki Inomata re-created the shell of an ammonite (the octopus’s ancestor) using 3-D scanning and printing techniques. This octopus, named Mersi, took no more than a few minutes to recognize it as home and make it hers. 🐙
From regenerating coral reefs to feeding an overpopulated planet, explore how design offers strategies for repairing our world in our new exhibition, #BrokenNature, a collaboration with Triennale Milano: mo.ma/brokennature
🙈 Improve your observational skills and let chance take over as you learn how to make blind contour drawings.
This month's #CreativityLabAtHome challenge: let go and make art with the element of chance. Explore more art-making prompts: mo.ma/30ufcfj
"Trust visions that don't feature buckets of blood."
Curator Paulina Pobocha still gets goosebumps when she looks at Jenny Holzer and Lady Pink’s painting, in which images of political terror are countered by the will to seek out a better future. mo.ma/2IUlC1j
Artist and filmmaker Garrett Bradley speaks about her re-envisioning of Black history with curators Thelma Golden and Legacy Russell of The Studio Museum in Harlem on the occasion of her new multi-channel installation, opening this Saturday at MoMA: mo.ma/3fgALWp
In conjunction with the exhibition Projects: Garrett Bradley, the second year of Studio Museum's presentation within The Elaine Dannheisser Project Series at MoMA, Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, and Legacy Russell, Associate Curator, Exhibitions of The Stud...
#DYK Alexander Calder began drawing animals in the 1920s while an illustrator for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
This 1947 illustration is one of the earliest designs from our Holiday Card Program, reissued by MoMA Design Store just in time to spread some cheer this holiday season!
Explore our holiday cards: mo.ma/3lN3rsK
"I entered this project with a deep desire to think about how art serves as practices of belonging and ways of connecting for people who have been rendered “bad subjects” by the state."
In the latest episode of the #MoMAMagazine Podcast, Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood speaks with four artists featured in MoMA PS1's “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration" about the relationship between art and freedom, their perspectives on prison abolition, and how empathetic justice might be achieved. Listen at mo.ma/abolition
Nicole Fleetwood speaks with four artists featured in MoMA PS1’s new exhibition.
#NewPhoto2020 artist Maria Antelman joins photographic fragments of human bodies and stones, drawing surprising connections between flesh and mineral, permanence and transience.
Discover a new perspective: mo.ma/mariaantelman
Moké captured the energy and vibrancy of Kinshasa city life in this 1980 painting, new to the #MoMACollection and newly on view in our galleries.
Learn how a generation of artists captured the modern city, from music to politics to La Sape style, in Congolese popular painting: mo.ma/3c2IV33
Slow down and take a closer look at "Kinshasa at Noon" in the online workshop Slow Looking: Connecting to Self and Place on Nov. 17 & 19. Register here: mo.ma/2D81mpR
💧 In "Waterdrop Painting," Yoko Ono gives a series of instructions to make art with drops of water. Let go of control and create your own work from the artist's instructions.
This month's #CreativityLabAtHome challenge: let go and make art with the element of chance. Explore more art-making prompts: mo.ma/30ufcfj
Mind blown 🤯
van Gogh’s “The Starry Night”, Saint Rémy de Provence, France
[Museum of Modern Art, NYC]
Analysis of the crescent Moon and Venus, reveals that the painting captures the early morning hours near the Summer Solstice, 1889 — just before sunrise.
So for me, it’s “The Starry Dawn”.
Discover urgent stories, unexpected pairings, and new voices in our refreshed collection galleries.
Be among the first to see the Fall Reveal—December tickets have just been released. Start exploring: moma.org/fallreveal
Thank you Bank of America for making the presentation and conservation of the #MoMACollection possible.
“This body of work is so important because it happens at a certain moment when we have an explosion in visual culture.”
Curator Roxana Marcoci talks about how Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills series uses playing dress-up to ask big questions about how mass media influence our everyday lives. mo.ma/35tUa35
Sonia Delaunay-Terk reflected the modern world by capturing its colors, shapes, sounds, and movements.
Journey through the artist's whirling "Portuguese Market," on view in our fifth-floor collection galleries, in the children's book Sonia Delaunay: A Life of Color: mo.ma/3gHuSBJ
#ChildrensBookWeek
Announcing this year's #MoMAFilmBenefit honoree: the one-and-only George Clooney! What are your fave Clooney films?
Get tickets for the virtual event and support Artist Relief: unitedstatesartists.org/moma
Wear your art on your sleeve—new #VansMoMA is here!
Discover sneaker and apparel designs featuring artworks by Faith Ringgold, Jackson Pollock, Edvard Munch, and Lyubova Popova. Available from MoMA Design Store in limited quantities. mo.ma/vansmoma
Plus, learn how we translated work from MoMA's collection into Vans sneaker and apparel styles tomorrow, Nov. 12, at 8pm EST, in the online event Design Disruptors: Art Off the Wall.
MoMA is a place for everyone to find inspiration—even 🍪 monsters.
On #SesameStreetDay, we're remembering when Cookie Monster surprised us with a visit!
In two multi-year series of photographs made in very different regions, #NewPhoto2020 artist Sohrab Hura captures both beautiful landscapes and places of conflict.
Discover a new perspective: mo.ma/sohrabhura
Mountain climber Conrad Anker drops in with curator Sarah Meister on our Instagram Live this Wednesday at noon for a conversation on Yosemite National Park, the spirit of nature photography, and the urgency to address climate change, explored in his essay for #MoMAMagazine: mo.ma/349yQPv
To mark the 130th anniversary of Yosemite National Park, “climber’s climber” Conrad Anker explores his lifelong connection to the park through photos in MoMA’s collection.
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We asked Sofia Coppola, Judd Apatow, Cynthia Erivo, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Johan Renck, and Patty Jenkins about what inspired them to dedicate their life to film, and why it's so important to help sustain and preserve the art form. Watch the full film: moma.org/support/chanel Support film preservation with a ticket to tonight's MoMA Film Benefit: Honoring George Clooney, presented by CHANEL: mo.ma/37l5v5d
📝 Martin Wong often added text to his drawings to share his experiences. Draw something you see from your window and add words to record the moment. Inspired by boundary-breaking artists of “Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury,” this month's #CreativityLabAtHome challenge is to Draw with Anything. Explore the exhibition: mo.ma/degreezero
“Gordon Parks presented a picture of crime in the U.S. that managed to preserve the anonymity of so-called criminals, and by doing that, undermined whether or not we should be considering them criminals at all.” Curator Sarah Meister reflects on Parks's 1957 Life magazine photo essay, The Atmosphere of Crime, now on view in our galleries.
Journey into Vincent van Gogh’s unforgettable painting tonight in our Virtual Views: Van Gogh’s Starry Night, a Live Q&A with a performative reading of the extraordinary letters between the artist and his brother Theo by acclaimed actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith. Start exploring: mo.ma/virtualstarrynight Thank you Bank of America for making the conservation and presentation of our collection possible.
Join David Letterman and more surprise celebrity guests for a special virtual evening at this year’s MoMA Film Benefit: Honoring George Clooney, presented by CHANEL on December 7. Get a ticket with a $25 donation to Artist Relief: unitedstatesartists.org/moma
"There was something about Surrealism—with its emphasis on the dream, fantasy, the unconscious, and reshaping society—that gave women artists this sense of freedom and possibility." Explore works by women artists in our Surrealism galleries with curator Anne Umland, play the exquisite corpse game, & more in our #MoMAVirtualViews: mo.ma/surrealistwomen Tonight at 8 p.m., join Anne Umland and Broad City star Abbi Jacobson Virtual Views: Surrealist Women, a Live Q&A as they explore the legacy of Surrealism and women’s crucial role in the movement: mo.ma/2Ht6dV6
🙈 Improve your observational skills and let chance take over as you learn how to make blind contour drawings. This month's #CreativityLabAtHome challenge: let go and make art with the element of chance. Explore more art-making prompts: mo.ma/30ufcfj
Japanese designer Aki Inomata re-created the shell of an ammonite (the octopus’s ancestor) using 3-D scanning and printing techniques. This octopus, named Mersi, took no more than a few minutes to recognize it as home and make it hers. 🐙 From regenerating coral reefs to feeding an overpopulated planet, explore how design offers strategies for repairing our world in our new exhibition, #BrokenNature, a collaboration with Triennale Milano: mo.ma/brokennature
"Trust visions that don't feature buckets of blood." Curator Paulina Pobocha still gets goosebumps when she looks at Jenny Holzer and Lady Pink’s painting, in which images of political terror are countered by the will to seek out a better future. mo.ma/2IUlC1j
#NewPhoto2020 artist Maria Antelman joins photographic fragments of human bodies and stones, drawing surprising connections between flesh and mineral, permanence and transience. Discover a new perspective: mo.ma/mariaantelman
Discover urgent stories, unexpected pairings, and new voices in our refreshed collection galleries. Be among the first to see the Fall Reveal—December tickets have just been released. Start exploring: moma.org/fallreveal Thank you Bank of America for making the presentation and conservation of the #MoMACollection possible.
“This body of work is so important because it happens at a certain moment when we have an explosion in visual culture.” Curator Roxana Marcoci talks about how Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills series uses playing dress-up to ask big questions about how mass media influence our everyday lives. mo.ma/35tUa35
Announcing this year's #MoMAFilmBenefit honoree: the one-and-only George Clooney! What are your fave Clooney films? Get tickets for the virtual event and support Artist Relief: unitedstatesartists.org/moma
In two multi-year series of photographs made in very different regions, #NewPhoto2020 artist Sohrab Hura captures both beautiful landscapes and places of conflict. Discover a new perspective: mo.ma/sohrabhura
“She believed that she would be the painter of her country—Brazil—but she also believed deeply in the modern experiments going on in Paris.” Curator Ann Temkin talks about how Tarsila do Amaral’s 1928 “moonscape” expands our understanding of modernism. mo.ma/3p79yKc
Watching the final poll numbers roll in 🔢 #Election2020 Learn more about Charles Atlas's installation “Painting by Numbers": mo.ma/369ZjMv
Claude Monet hoped his Water Lilies would offer “the refuge of peaceful meditation in the center of a flowering aquarium.” We hope we can provide a bit of respite this #ElectionDay, especially for those who have worked so hard to ensure we can all vote. Whether you’re working at the polls, waiting in line to cast your ballot, or anxiously watching the news, take a moment to breathe deeply and quiet your mind. Surround yourself with lilies blooming in a luminous pool of green and blue, frothed with lavender-tinged reflections of clouds. While you watch, inhale and exhale to the count of “in two three” and “out two three.” #ArtfulPracticesforWellbeing
In diptychs, triptychs, or in photographs stitched together like a quilt, #NewPhoto2020 artist David Alekhuogie recognizes the photographed body as a layered symbol, much like his native Los Angeles. Discover a new perspective: mo.ma/davidalekhuogie
“His decision to render himself virtually transparent so powerfully expresses this sense of a dissolve.” Curator Anne Umland explores Joan Miró’s haunting Self-Portrait I, and sees the artist confronting changes to the world as he knew it. mo.ma/3kMfrdw
We're shaking... Is MoMA haunted???
“I often try to imagine what the life behind this facade might be. Who has sat on a desk behind this ledge for 60 years?” Curatorial assistant Evangelos Kotsioris talks about the innovations and imperfections in the facade of the UN building in advance of #UnitedNationsDay and the United Nations’s 75th anniversary on October 24. mo.ma/3jmzygQ
We’re so excited to welcome you back to enjoy an intimate experience in our galleries and relax in one of NYC’s most beloved green spaces where art and nature come together—our Sculpture Garden.
The joy of exploring your favorite works is still here, but your visiting experience will feel a bit different as we stay safe together. Learn more and plan your trip: moma.org/visit-safely
See you at MoMA!
