Art
Carmen Winant’s Radical Images of Women Giving Birth
In “My Birth,” Carmen Winant directly addresses our general discomfort with the physical aspect of childbirth, forcing viewers to look directly at it, the universal starting point.
MoMA
News
Museum of Modern Art Staff Protest Outside Fundraising Gala, Demanding a Fair Contract
About 100 MoMA workers and their supporters rallied outside the Museum as donors and trustees arrived to draw attention to ongoing contract negotiations that are currently at an impasse.
Art
Philip Guston's Echoes
One of the defining features of Guston’s last decade is a paradoxical faith in the elusiveness of truth.
Art
A Celebration of Black Female Creativity with Pulitzer-Winner Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
Ghansah has organized a program of readings, screenings, and performances at the Museum of Modern Art examining the legacies of creative black women.
Art
How Adrian Piper Challenges Us to Change the Ways We Live
In her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, Piper makes visible the ways in which we are held in place by other people and their perceptions, and how their perceptions lead to the politics and philosophies that make up our world.
News
MoMA Sues New Café and Gallery "MoMaCha" for Trademark Violation
The Museum of Modern Art's complaint claims the actions of a Lower East Side café and gallery will cause "harm to its name, reputation, and goodwill."
In Brief
Chris Ofili Painting, Once Called "Degenerate" by Trump, Gifted to Museum of Modern Art by Trump Supporter
The painting, which sparked a political scandal at the Brooklyn Museum in 1999, was donated to MoMA by hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen.
Art
How Tarsila do Amaral Reinvented Brazilian Identity with Modern Art
Tarsila unearthed her roots to understand them better, and showed them off to the world. No Brazilian artist before her had probed the country's past in such a personal way.
Art
Tania Bruguera’s Once-Censored Installation Measures the Distance Between Words and Things
First created for the Havana Biennial in 2000, Bruguera's installation-performance is a critique of the totalitarian structures that impact people's daily lives.
Art
Six Houses of Worship Where Artists and Musicians Can Borrow the Basement
In these churches and synagogues, the underground art scene thrives — literally.
Art
An Annual Feminist Editing Session Takes on Wikipedia’s Gender Problem
For the past five years, a room full of laptop-lugging feminists has staged an “Edit-a-thon" to broaden the Free Encyclopedia.
Film
Return of One of the Most Beloved Bad Films of All Time
The Museum of Modern Art is screening Ed Wood's 1959 cult classic, Plan 9 from Outer Space.