Museum of the Moving Image

Film

A Chronicler of Soviet and Post-Soviet Life Blurs Fact and Fiction

At the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look festival, audiences will get to see different sides of Sergei Loznitsa, who examines the past, the present, and where they intersect.

Interview

Riding into Loopy Depths on a GIF Elevator

The Argentine artist Render Fruit discuses her GIF installation for the elevator of the Museum of the Moving Image.

Art

Bergdorf Goodman’s Holiday Windows Celebrate NYC Cultural Institutions

The 2017 Bergdorf Goodman holiday windows celebrate the American Museum of Natural History, New-York Historical Society, New York Botanical Garden, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and other local cultural institutions.

News

Jim Henson's Muppet Prototypes and Sketches Prove He Was a Genius, No Strings Attached

At the Museum of the Moving Image, The Jim Henson Exhibition spans Henson's career and highlights the conceptual and technical innovations of the groundbreaking puppeteer and his creative collaborators.

Film

A Documentary on Tyrus Wong, a Long-Ignored Illustrator for Disney and Warner Bros

Wong spent 30 years in the film industry, though racial attitudes of the time kept his contributions unacknowledged until the 21st century.

In Brief

Museum Terminates Anti-Trump Art Project over Safety Concerns

"HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US," a work by the trio LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner, was originally intended to run for Donald Trump's entire presidency at the Museum of the Moving Image.

Art

A Major Museum Show Maps Martin Scorsese's Raging World

The Museum of the Moving Image's new exhibition on Scorsese brings together some 600 objects — many from the director's personal collection — and countless visual and aural excerpts spanning his more than 40 years of filmmaking.

Art

Playing Operator on a Vintage Telephone Switchboard

Mike Lazer-Walker has repurposed a 1927 Western Electric 551-A switchboard into a hectic game that tasks players with quickly learning the obsolete job.

Art

An Expansive Exhibition Stars Hollywood and Contemporary Art

As Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact, the Museum of the Moving Image's auspicious foray into exhibiting contemporary art, wryly suggests, it might be film and its iconic images that help stave off decay.

Art

The Avant-Garde Films of a Thief of Light and Shadow

Thieves tend to be remembered fondly, grandly, or at least without the usual sort of scorn that characterizes criminality.

Film

A Cinematic Journey Through the Louvre and a Dark Chapter in European History

Francofonia bristles at labeling. The latest whatsit by Russian titan Alexander Sokurov moves comfortably between categories.

Art

Imagining Real and Fictional History: Exhibits on 'Mad Men' and Chinese Fashion

New Yorkers could be forgiven this month for confusing their museum itineraries with the schedule of a vintage film festival, or an Anna May Wong-inspired Netflix binge.