Picasso developed this painting from the central motif of an unrealized mural of four mounted riders and a walking figure leading a horse. Determinedly striding forward, the youth seen here exudes ...

In September 1938 Mondrian moved from Paris to London to escape the threat of a German invasion. There he made Trafalgar Square, the first in a series of paintings titled after locations in cities ...

Japanese, born 1929A vital part of New York’s avant-garde art scene from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, Yayoi Kusama developed a distinctive style utilizing approaches associated with Abstract ...

“I want to be the painter of my country. I am so thankful to have spent the whole of my childhood in the fazenda. My memories of that time have grown precious to me,” wrote Tarsila do Amaral in a ...

A key figure in the Pop art movement and beyond, Roy Lichtenstein grounded his profoundly inventive career in imitation—beginning by borrowing images from comic books and advertisements in the early ...

In 2018–19, MoMA collaborated with Google Arts & Culture Lab on a project using machine learning to identify artworks in installation photos. That project has concluded, and works are now being ...

If Jackson Pollock was the public face of the New York avant-garde, Willem de Kooning could be described as an artist’s artist, who was perceived by many of his peers as its leader. He was born in ...

MoMA Highlights: 375 Works from The Museum of Modern Art Introduction by Glenn D. Lowry, 2019 Flexibound, 408 pages MoMA Now: Highlights from The Museum of Modern Art—Ninetieth Anniversary Edition ...

“ Art is a powerful tool, a language that can be used to enlighten, inform and guide to action,” Emory Douglas has said. 1 The former Minister of Culture and Revolutionary Artist for the Black Panther ...

In the winter of 1947, Alberto Giacometti wrote a letter to Pierre Matisse, a gallerist in New York who was organizing an exhibition of his works. “Here is the list of sculptures that I promised you,” ...

Born in the Prussian city of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia) in 1867, Käthe Kollwitz established herself in an art world dominated by men by developing an aesthetic vision centered on women and ...

Messing With MoMA: Critical Interventions at the Museum of Modern Art, 1939–Now As an institution dedicated to ever-changing art forms, MoMA consistently attracts direct engagement. This exhibition ...