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.
MoMA
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.
Art
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.
Art
Binge-Watch All of the New Twin Peaks at the Museum of Modern Art
All 18 episodes of the series's landmark final season will screen at MoMA from Friday evening through Sunday.
Film
Antonioni's Rarely Seen Documentary on China During the Cultural Revolution
Antonioni's experimental travelogue of the early days of the Cultural Revolution is a complex, sometimes confusing, and priceless document of a transformative moment in Chinese history.
Art
Birding with Max Ernst
In the Museum of Modern Art's current Ernst retrospective, the artist's avian alter ego, Loplop, reveals a realer reality.
Art
Best of 2017: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows
It was a powder keg of a year in visual art, with strong, politically inflected, deeply personal, and wildly inventive exhibitions that touched on the classics, courted controversy, and yielded new favorites.