Magazine

Taking a Hands-on Look at Robert Frank

Artist Dayanita Singh recounts how a stolen Robert Frank book changed how she saw and made photographs.

Exploring Community Action Center

Art critic and Le Tigre cofounder Johanna Fateman revisits a video love letter to queer sex, politics, and music.

Kate Walbert on Lillie P. Bliss

Read an excerpt from Inventing the Modern: Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped The Museum of Modern Art about one of MoMA’s trailblazing founders.

The Train at the End of the Tunnel

In this excerpt from the Thomas Schütte exhibition catalogue, artist Marlene Dumas describes Schütte as a tender, self-effacing soul with a deep well of humor.

The Discovery of René Magritte’s The Enchanted Pose

In preparation for a 2013 Magritte exhibition, MoMA conservators discovered one part of a painting once thought lost. Now, all four sections of the repurposed canvas have been identified under other works.

Pedro Costa and the Revolutionary Constellation of Portuguese Cinema

The esteemed director talks about his influences, the loneliness of filmmaking, and the creative necessity of wasting time.

Drawn to MoMA

Conor Stechschulte’s Talk Button

In this speculative story, works from MoMA’s collection are reimagined for a futuristic world.

Art and the Senses

Smell: Mike Kelley’s Deodorized Central Mass with Satellites

Watch the first installment in our new video series exploring how art is more than meets the eye.

More Spirit Less Taste: Robert Frank’s Social Networks

In this excerpt from the Life Dances On exhibition catalogue, the collage 10th Street Painters embodies the network of artists in Frank’s orbit.

Star Man: Vincent van Gogh’s Illuminated Nights

The author explores Van Gogh’s fascination with different kinds of illumination, from stars to newly invented gaslight.

Playlist

MoMA Mixtape: Caroline Schiff Makes a Confection of Music, Art, and Food

The renowned New York pastry chef “takes the A-train” to Broadway Boogie Woogie while eating a black-and-white cookie.

Dream in the Rhythm

Read Grace Wales Bonner’s introduction to the book that accompanies the exhibition Artist’s Choice: Grace Wales Bonner—Spirit Movers.