Picasso developed this painting from the central motif of an unrealized mural of four mounted riders and a walking figure leading a horse. Determinedly striding forward, the youth seen here exudes ...

For four decades, Cindy Sherman has probed the construction of identity, playing with the visual and cultural codes of art, celebrity, gender, and photography. She is among the most significant ...

MoMA | Rirkrit Tiravanija: Cooking Up an Art ExperienceIn 1992, Rirkrit Tiravanija created an exhibition entitled Untitled (Free) at 303 Gallery in New York. This landmark piece, in which the artist ...

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” – Leonardo da Vinci When visiting a museum, especially in New York City, it’s easy to wander ...

MoMA | Breaking Down Barriers: A Continuing Tradition of Access Programs at MoMAI was handed the baton in 1994 by Sarah Stephenson and Richard Barr, who were the Assistant Director and the Volunteer ...

Jerry Gorovoy: I’m Jerry Gorovoy. This hanging bronze figure is called the Arch of Hysteria. Louise had actually been in psychoanalysis from 1951 all the way up until the 1980s. At the beginning of ...

Curator, Deborah Wye: This work is titled Femme Maison. And that meant to Louise Bourgeois either “woman house” or “house woman” in French. She was a native of France and always went back and forth ...

Hours, location and arrival. What are MoMA’s hours? MoMA is open daily from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m,. and until 8:30 p.m. on Fridays. Please be advised that in the morning and on rainy days there may ...

A key figure in the Pop art movement and beyond, Roy Lichtenstein grounded his profoundly inventive career in imitation—beginning by borrowing images from comic books and advertisements in the early ...

If Jackson Pollock was the public face of the New York avant-garde, Willem de Kooning could be described as an artist’s artist, who was perceived by many of his peers as its leader. He was born in ...

When The Museum of Modern Art’s first director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., met Aleksandr Rodchenko on his trip to Moscow in 1927—one of the first times an Anglophone art historian had visited the Soviet ...

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 ...