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The Men Behind MoMA’s Taste for Modernist Design

Long before it became a cultural juggernaut, MoMA was helmed by a young intellectual named Alfred H. Barr Jr. who, from 1929 to 1934, worked in close collaboration with architect Philip Johnson to make the museum an influential platform for modernism.

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The Pursuit of Art, 2015

2015 was the Year of the Whitney.

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Best of 2015: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows

Occasionally, we are forced to venture beyond Brooklyn to see art.

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The Precarious Lives of Freelance Museum Educators

Museum educators are crucial to museums’ long-term public engagement, but these freelancers lack the job security of a full-time, salaried position.

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The Freelance Educators Who Teach Children to Love Museums

Museum education is a significant aspect of the way museums interface with their audiences, and freelance educators have made themselves crucial to the operation of many of New York’s main art institutions.

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Bodies at War: ‘Soldier, Spectre, Shaman’ at MoMA

World War II signaled the death of figurative art, or so the High Modernist narrative once contended.

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The Art of Anxiety and Anticipation from the Backyards of Cold War Superpowers

As Cold War politics began to heat up along the peripheries of US and Soviet control, aesthetic preoccupations slowly started to give way to explicit engagement with the prevailing orders of power.

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Unreliable Informants: A Walid Raad Primer

The survey exhibition dedicated the work of Walid Raad, which opens to the public on Monday at the Museum of Modern Art, is a rich and compelling point of entry for anyone seeking a handle on this sly and elusive artist.

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Pablo Picasso, Now in 3D

It's hard to get excited for another Pablo Picasso exhibition. He is, after all, the Steven Spielberg of European modernism — flashy, prolific, proficient at a vast range of genres, and overrepresented in the mainstream cultural canon.

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The Living History of Jacob Lawrence's 'Migration Series'

I am only one generation removed from the history of African American migrants who, between 1917 and 1970, travelled North seeking economic opportunity, education, and respite from the strictures of Jim Crow South.

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Ingrid Bergman at 100: An Appreciation

Bergman was a vital, daring force both in the films in which she starred and — through her bold initiative, forging collaborations and instigating projects time and again — in the course of the history of cinema as a whole.

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A Catalogue of Violent Design in the 21st Century

MoMA's online initiative Design and Violence was an 18-month experiment in addressing the brutality of 21st-century design.