Narrator: This work belongs to a series of paintings in which Magritte paired words and images using the format of a children’s reading primer. Curator, Anne Umland: Misnaming objects was one of ...

GLENN LOWRY: One of the influences on Abramović’s work is Tibetan Buddhism. In Nude with Skeleton, Abramović evokes a traditional exercise undertaken by Tibetan monks during which they sleep alongside ...

Der Blaue Reiter was formed in 1911 in Munich as a loose association of painters led by Vasily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. They shared an interest in abstracted forms and prismatic colors, which, they ...

Glenn Lowry: Clark called these works "Bichos," or "critters." Connie Butler:: The implication being that these are small beasts or animals or in some way animated and living forms. If you look ...

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One morning in the summer of 1952, Matisse told his studio assistant and secretary Lydia Delectorskaya that “he wanted to see divers,” so they set out to a favorite pool in Cannes. Suffering under the ...

Leah Dickerman: These "White Paintings" may not be prepossessing, but they're among the most radical statements about painting made in the middle of the 20th century. They are blank canvases stretched ...

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 ...

The Thomas Walther Collection—341 photographs by 148 artists—represents the innovative vision of the 1920s and ’30s, a transformative period of modern photography and the foundation of our photo-based ...

LUCY GALLUN: In this history portrait, Sherman has taken on the role of Caravaggio’s Sick Bacchus, the painting from the late 16th century. It's different from some of the other works in the series ...

Immerse yourself in ideas and see your world in new ways through art. In MoMA’s free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on Coursera, you will hear directly from artists and designers, look closely at ...

In 2018–19, MoMA collaborated with Google Arts & Culture Lab on a project using machine learning to identify artworks in installation photos. That project has concluded, and works are now being ...