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🍎 It’s apple season in the big apple! Edward Steichen is perhaps best known for elevating commercial and fashion photogr...
10/17/2026

🍎 It’s apple season in the big apple!

Edward Steichen is perhaps best known for elevating commercial and fashion photography to the level of fine art. He built up this artwork in layers: reprinting the image multiple times in different colors. He created this photograph of a woman and apple using a two-color process.

See a selection of Steichen’s photographs on view now on our fifth floor.

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Edward Steichen. “Dana and the Apple.” 1922. Gift of the artist. © 2026 The Estate of Edward Steichen / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

10/16/2026

“Everything in my experience goes into my work because that kind of understanding that stains your body, stains your being, the way color stains cloth, I just distill my work out of it.”—Anne Truitt

How does one MoMA educator bring art into her life?

One way that Arlette, an Associate Educator here at MoMA, brings her favorite artworks into her world outside of the Museum is through her nail art. This month, she was inspired by Anne Truitt’s “First Requiem.”

Truitt is best known for her colorful and labor-intensive sculptures. She preferred working with wood and alternated between painting and sanding the surface to create a smooth finish. For Truitt, color was a way to convey memories as well as impressions and sensations.

Get inspired by “First Requiem” and much more on a visit to MoMA!

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[1] Anne Truitt. “First Requiem.” 1977. Gift of Robert B. and Mercedes H. Eichholz. © 2026 Anne Truitt. [2] Installation view of the gallery "Hard Edges, Expanded Fields" in the exhibition "Collection 1950s–1970s." [3] Anne Truitt. “15 Nov '65.” 1965. Gift of Donald B. Marron. © 2026 Anne Truitt. [4] Anne Truitt. “Catawba.” 1962. Given anonymously. © 2026 Anne Truitt. [5] Anne Truitt. “Twining Court I.” 2001. Gift of Agnes Gund. © 2026 Anne Truitt.

Leaves are falling and autumn is in full swing at MoMA 🍂How can you make the most of fall at the museum?🍁 Visit newly-op...
10/15/2026

Leaves are falling and autumn is in full swing at MoMA 🍂

How can you make the most of fall at the museum?

🍁 Visit newly-opened exhibitions “The Surrealist Book: Tomorrow Lives in Mirrors,” “Taking Back Our Space: Photographic Perspectives,” “Full Disclosure: The Edge of Information Design,” and “Nilima Sheikh: Fractured Skies”

🍁 See a film in one of our theaters and stop by the exhibition “It’s Alive” to learn about the history of animation

🍁 Enjoy a hot drink in our Sculpture Garden as the leaves turn

🍁 Grab your friends and head to MoMA on Friday nights for activities, exhibitions, and fun after dark at UNIQLO Friday Nights! It’s free for all New York State residents

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Andreas Feininger. “Leaf Pattern.” c. 1935. Gift of the artist. © 2026 Estate of Andreas Feininger.

What forms do you notice in this sculpture?The title identifies its two spherical shapes as navels and the larger, uptur...
10/14/2026

What forms do you notice in this sculpture?

The title identifies its two spherical shapes as navels and the larger, upturned form as a bell. The navel was one of Arp's signature motifs, as he considered its associations with birth, growth, and procreation to be particularly resonant. In his work it can resemble an egg, a seed, a womb or the orb of the earth itself.

As Arp explained, "It's the first thing that exists, the beginning." He connected human life not only with the cycles of nature, but also with the act of artistic creation. The year he made this work Arp declared, "Art is a fruit that grows in man like a fruit on a plant or a child in its mother's womb."

See “Bell and Navels” for yourself on our fifth floor!

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Jean (Hans) Arp. “Bell and Navels.” 1931. Kay Sage Tanguy Fund. © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

10/13/2026

🎶 What can a painting tell us about the life it’s led?

Come behind the scenes to the Conservation Department to discover the journey Pablo Picasso’s “Three Musicians” took to MoMA.

Painted by Picasso in 1921, the artwork revisits the early years of Synthetic Cubism. The mural-sized “Three Musicians” evokes collage through its flat, interlocking planes of unshaded color, as well as the sheet music at right. This painted sheet music recalls the cut-and-pasted sheet music that Picasso had often added to his early Cubist collages.

Visit “Three Musicians” on our fifth floor and see this monumental work for yourself!

🍫 Ever wondered how many times the entry for “chocolate” has been edited on Wikipedia? To deliver messages clearly and e...
10/11/2026

🍫 Ever wondered how many times the entry for “chocolate” has been edited on Wikipedia?

To deliver messages clearly and effectively, information designers often rely on formal elegance to attract attention and command respect for the subject matter in question. In 2003, Fernanda Bertini Viégas and Martin Wattenberg, leading figures in contemporary visualization design, set out to investigate the dynamics behind the editing histories of Wikipedia pages.

📢 This work is now on view as part of “Full Disclosure: The Edge of Information Design,” MoMA’s first exhibition devoted entirely to information design!

Plan your visit to our first-floor galleries to explore an array of projects, both digital and analog, that encourage close looking and critical examination.

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Fernanda Bertini Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. “History Flow (Chocolate).” 2003. Chromogenic print from Java software. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the designers. © 2026 Fernanda Bertini Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.

🍵 Which details in Leonora Carrington’s painting “Green Tea” catch your eye?Leonora Carrington was a British-born painte...
10/10/2026

🍵 Which details in Leonora Carrington’s painting “Green Tea” catch your eye?

Leonora Carrington was a British-born painter and writer associated with the Surrealist movement. During World War II, Carrington fled France and sought asylum in Spain. There, she experienced a series of psychological crises. Her family placed her in a sanatorium against her will. After moving to New York she painted “Green Tea,” which is possibly a meditation on her confinement.

At left there is a figure, often interpreted as the artist, clad in a restrictive cowhide-like straitjacket. A white horse, another one of Carrington’s autobiographical symbols, is chained to a tree nearby.

Did you notice the things that lurk beneath the surface? Look at the bottom of the painting and you might notice a monster-filled, bat-filled, cadaver-filled universe right beneath the edge of this bright sunny green scene above.

👀 Discover new details with your own eyes on our fifth floor today!

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Leonora Carrington. “Green Tea.” 1942. Gift of the Drue Heinz Trust (by exchange). © 2026 Leonora Carrington / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

📖 “The Surrealist Book: Tomorrow Lives in Mirrors” is now open on our third floor!A book bound with shards of shattered ...
10/09/2026

📖 “The Surrealist Book: Tomorrow Lives in Mirrors” is now open on our third floor!

A book bound with shards of shattered glass. A manifesto enshrined in polished metal. Love poems seamlessly merging with solarized photographs.

Whether sparking disquiet or delight, books, the Surrealists insisted, “are doors.” Whoever “opens them is immediately thrown into a higher realm.” Artists and writers of the Surrealist movement transformed the bound volume into a provocative new art form, an enchanted portal to the unexpected, the irrational, and the marvelous.

“The Surrealist Book” features the work of Surrealism’s most fascinating figures, including André Breton, Claude Cahun, Salvador Dalí, Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, Toyen, and Unica Zürn.

🪞 Immerse yourself in the enchanted realm of ”The Surrealist Book: Tomorrow Lives in Mirrors” at MoMA through Jan 23, 2027.

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[1] Salvador Dalí, artist. André Breton, author. Paul Éluard, author. Paul Bonet, binder. “L’immaculée Conception (The Immaculate Conception).” Published 1930; additional documents c. 1935; rebound 1942. Gift of Helen and Sam Zell. © 2026 Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Artists Rights Society; © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris; © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [2] Claude Cahun, artist and author. Marcel Moore, artist. “Aveux non avenus (Cancelled Confessions) (detail).” Published 1930 (texts 1919-28). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Helen and Sam Zell. [3] Giorgio de Chirico, artist. Paul Éluard, author. Georges Hugnet and Louis Christy, binders. “Défense de savoir (Knowledge Forbidden).” Published 1928; rebound 1936. Gift of Helen and Sam Zell. © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome; © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. [4] Unica Zürn, artist and author. “Orakel und Spektakel, IV. Buch: Anagramme und Zeichnungen (Oracle and Spectacle, Book IV: Anagrams and Drawings).” 1960. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Helen and Sam Zell. Photo: Ben Blackwell © Verlag Brinkmann & Bose, Berlin, Germany.

“I don’t feel restricted by being female, any more than I am restricted by being Black or being American—these are the f...
10/08/2026

“I don’t feel restricted by being female, any more than I am restricted by being Black or being American—these are the facts of my life. It is powerful to know who you are. The restriction comes in not knowing.”—Faith Ringgold

Artist Faith Ringgold was born on this day in 1930 🎂

Ringgold’s nearly seven-decade career was driven by a profound sense of justice. Relentless in her pursuit of civil rights and equal treatment, Ringgold positioned herself squarely at the center of New York’s thriving activist-artist scene in the 1960s and beyond. She was a member of the Black Arts movement, and was often one of the few Black women in largely white feminist circles, including the Ad Hoc Committee of Women Artists and A.I.R. Gallery.

Ringgold’s life and career were at the service of the values and ideals she believed in. Hers was not an art that rejected American society; it was, rather, an attempt to make it better for herself, her peers, and the generations that would come after her.

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Faith Ringgold. “Woman Free Yourself.” 1971. The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Endowment for Prints. © 2026 Faith Ringgold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

10/07/2026

🤐 Want to hear a secret about your favorite artist?

🎧 Now playing! Listen to “The Secret Lives of Artists,” a new podcast that explores the stories you don’t know about the artists you think you do.

Learn about the surprising connection between Marcel Duchamp’s groundbreaking art and his devotion to chess, John Cage’s obsession with mushroom foraging, and the many lives of Lee Miller in the first three episodes of the series, now available wherever you get your podcasts.

Learn more and subscribe here 👉 mo.ma/3Ui5oUl

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Fred W. McDarrah. “John Cage performing ‘Variations VII,’ during ‘9 Evenings of Art & Engineering,’ 69th Regiment Armory, New York, October 15, 1966.” 1966 (printed 1992). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the Estate of Fred W. McDarrah. © 2026 Estate of Fred W. McDarrah.

10/07/2026

📣 On view now through October 11: “Sarah Michelson: nowhere,” a daily dance!

What is dance? Across a career spanning 30 years, Sarah Michelson has continuously explored that question and reimagined the boundaries of contemporary performance.

In “nowhere,” she performs alongside a rotating cast of dancers. Treating the Donald and Catherine Marron Family Atrium as her daily workspace, Michelson integrates her dancing, thinking, and being into the life of the Museum.

📍 Plan your visit to experience “Sarah Michelson: nowhere” before it closes on October 11!

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Sarah Michelson. “nowhere.” 2026. Performers: John Hoobyar and Sarah Michelson

“If you speak a new language of your own that others have yet to learn, you may have to wait a very long time for a posi...
10/06/2026

“If you speak a new language of your own that others have yet to learn, you may have to wait a very long time for a positive echo.”—Meret Oppenheim

Artist Meret Oppenheim was born on this day 113 years ago 🎂

Best known for her celebrated fur-lined teacup, Oppenheim’s output ranges from daring objects first displayed alongside those of the Surrealists in the 1930s, to painted collages that incorporate natural materials found in the Alpine landscape, to sculptures made of bronze and semi-precious stone.

Oppenheim was not just an object maker, and she worked across mediums. The paintings “Red Head, Blue Body” and “Little Ghost Eating Bread” illustrate her interest in ambiguously animate forms, which she also explored in ink and gouache, in lipstick and string, and in other conventional and unconventional art materials.

See this painting “Little Ghost Eating Bread” along with “Object” on view on our fifth floor!

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Meret Oppenheim. “Little Ghost Eating Bread.” 1934. Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, and Alice and Tom Tisch.

10/05/2026

In the 1930s and 1940s, Paris was a mecca for Black artists, writers, musicians, and intellectuals from around the world. From this crucible, in 1947 Alioune Diop founded Présence Africaine, a journal devoted to redefining the importance of Africa’s contributions to the modern world. With the aim of fostering fraternity and cultural dialogue, the publication featured a diverse network of contributors interested in Africa and its artistic expressions.

In this spirit, “Présence Africaine,” on view now in our fifth-floor galleries, assembles a range of artists, including those who appeared in its early issues, those whose work borrows from African visual culture, and those who found connections to their African heritage. Together, these artworks demonstrate the varied and sometimes conflicting ways artists responded to the circulation of African ideas and values shortly before WWII and immediately after.

Visit “Présence Africaine” on our fifth floor to learn more!

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[1] Installation view of the gallery “Présence Africaine” in the exhibition "Collection 1880s–1940s". [2] Pablo Picasso. “The Kitchen.” Paris, November 1948. Acquired through the Nelson A. Rockefeller Bequest. © 2026 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [3] Pablo Picasso. “Corps perdu.” 1949, published 1950. The Louis E. Stern Collection. © 2026 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

10/03/2026

“Nilima Sheikh: Fractured Skies” is now open on our first floor!

“The artist’s role is to bear witness—to both the past and the present,” says Nilima Sheikh. Over the course of her five-decade career, Sheikh has transformed narrative painting as a new way of engaging with history, highlighting lived experiences, illuminating regional stories, and foregrounding women’s voices.

Adapting the traditional scroll format and painting primarily in casein and gum temperas, Sheikh weaves together image, text, and stenciled patterning to create multilayered narratives that unfold as interconnected vignettes.

Through her visionary painting practice, Sheikh has established herself as one of the most consequential artists working in South Asia today. This exhibition marks the artist’s first solo presentation in New York, as well as the world debut of Sheikh’s work “Shahid/Witness,” commissioned by the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi.

Explore "Nilima Sheikh: Fractured Skies," organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), and the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi (KNMA), on view at MoMA through June 13, 2027.

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Installation views of “Nilima Sheikh: Fractured Skies” on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, from September 27, 2026, through June 13, 2027.

10/02/2026

Explore MoMA after the museum closes to the public surrounded by art, art lovers, and great music! Our blockbuster Artist Party event series is now 💫 After Hours 💫

🪩 On Tuesday, October 6 from 7–10 p.m., the Museum transforms into a space for discovery, movement, and collective experience influenced by the energy of club culture and artistic collaboration. Explore performances, exhibitions, collective art-making, and live music and stop by our pop-up bar to grab a drink or a snack.

🎛️ Artist-led events include a performance by L’Rain, a DJ set by Alexis De La Rosa with dancer Lysis, a performance by Camila Arroyo and Ricardo Daniel presented by TUMBAO, and a participatory workshop with Cassanda Mayela Allen.

🖼️ The exhibitions “Full Disclosure: The Edge of Information Design,” “Nilima Sheikh: Fractured Skies,” “Taking Back Our Space: Photographic Perspectives, Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa,” and “The Surrealist Book: Tomorrow Lives in Mirrors” will be open all evening.

Check out upcoming After Hours and secure your tickets now 👉 mo.ma/47wF4J1

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