Security Officer, Eric "Scottie" Scott: Everyone calls me Scottie. I've been a security officer here for 15 years at this Museum.I was looking at this piece, Peter Blume, man. What drew me to it was ...

Audio from Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography. For much of photography’s 170-year history, women have expanded its roles by experimenting with every aspect of the medium. Pictures by ...

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 ...

I grew up a hundred miles from the nearest art museum, in the infinite flatness of rural Kansas. A fifth-grade field trip brought the first opportunity to visit an art museum, where I found myself ...

January 27 is also the eve of the birthday of the poet, philosopher, and political theorist José Martí, in whose name the Cuban nation has been built and destroyed so many times. To commemorate the ...

Reweaving Ourselves: Contemporary Ecology through the Ideas of Juan Downey is the second online conference organized by the Cisneros Institute at MoMA and conceived by guest curator Julieta González ...

We meet them in their homes: Carol appears lost in hers, a Tudor mansion decorated with Marcel Breuer chairs and the kind of severely modern furniture that lends it the appearance of an upscale ...

CURATION Yesterday morning, I got a letter from Tonya Lockyer. It turns out you knew her. She is one of the participants in the workshop I am currently teaching over Zoom. Dear Eiko, In the early ’90s ...

During WWII, The Museum of Modern Art played an integral role in assisting artists, art historians, dealers, and their immediate families in escaping from Europe to America. After the fall of Paris to ...

A selection of monotypes from the Museum’s collection currently on view highlights the unique qualities of this printmaking process and reflects an enduring interest in the monotype medium within the ...

In 1913 Marcel Duchamp topped a kitchen stool with a bicycle wheel, “fork down” through a hole he had drilled in the seat, and parked this wheel-on-a-stool in his Paris studio. “I didn’t have any ...

The raw world, data visualization Seeing data is often an unpleasant experience—reality isn’t always easy to stare straight in the face. Human memory and understanding is not always accurate, and most ...