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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Six Houses of Worship Where Artists and Musicians Can Borrow the Basement
In these churches and synagogues, the underground art scene thrives — literally.
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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.
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An Intimate Screening of Classic Cartoons at the Museum of Modern Art
As part of the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition about Club 57, animation historian Jerry Beck hosts a program of nine classic cartoons he screened there in the late 1970s and early '80s.
News
Cisneros Collection Donates Works by 91 Contemporary Latin American Artists to Six Museums
In New York, 90 works are going to MoMA, with the Bronx Museum getting 12.
Books
We Spotted the Yayoi Kusama Children's Book You Always Wanted
Children's art books offer opportunities for kids — and the adults in their lives — to engage with art in joyful and surprising ways.