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No two days at MoMA are ever the same, and as we look back at the art and activities that shaped the past fiscal year, we are grateful to the artists, colleagues, visitors, members, and donors who made them possible. From milestone anniversaries to first-ever initiatives, the highlights shared here are a snapshot of the many ways that we came together—at the Museum and beyond—to experience art. Thank you for being part of MoMA and MoMA PS1 and for your outstanding generosity and enthusiasm.

Exhibitions for everyone

Installation view of Signals: How Video Transformed the World, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 5–July 8, 2023. Photo: Gus Powell; Guillermo del Toro on the set of Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, 2022. Image courtesy Jason Schmidt/Netflix; Installation view of The Encounter: Barbara Chase-Riboud/Alberto Giacometti, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 9–August 12, 2023. Photo: Gus Powell; Ming Smith. Circular Breathing, Hart Leroy Bibbs, Paris. 1980. Courtesy of the artist. © Ming Smith; Georgia O’Keeffe. Evening Star No.III. 1917. Watercolor on paper mounted on board. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Straus Fund, 1958. © 2023 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

This year we welcomed nearly 2.7 million visitors to our galleries for more than 17 exhibitions, along with film series and performances. This extraordinary lineup included Wolfgang Tillmans’s incisive and dazzling images; an on-set experience of Guillermo del Toro’s first stop-motion animation film; intimate, Improvisational, and expressive photographs by Ming Smith; six decades of artists’ engagement with the power and politics of video; Georgia O’Keeffe’s resplendent watercolors; the artistic dialogue between sculptors Barbara Chase-Riboud and Alberto Giacometti; our first-ever Studio Residency; genre-expanding cinema, including contenders for the year’s best films; and our annual festival of today’s most daring new directors. The breadth of creativity on display was awe-inspiring, and we hope you didn’t miss a single one.

MoMA through the mind of a machine

“Often, AI is used to classify, process, and generate realistic representations of the world. Anadol’s work, by contrast, is visionary: it explores dreams, hallucination, and irrationality, posing an alternate understanding of modern art—and of artmaking itself.”
Michelle Kuo, The Marlene Hess Curator of Painting

Refik Anadol’s mesmerizing installation Unsupervised, which uses artificial intelligence to interpret and transform more than 200 years of art from our collection, captivated crowds in the Gund Garden Lobby, sparking curiosity and conversation. Visitors to the installation could also collect free, blockchain-based digital mementos created by the artist as part of their experience. Officially acquired in October, Unsupervised is the first tokenized artwork in the Museum’s collection.

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Something new, every month

Mark Rothko. No. 5/No. 22. 1950 (dated on reverse 1949). Oil on canvas. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the artist. © 2023 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Noah Kalina

At the start of 2023 we announced a new program of monthly exhibitions from the collection that open on the first Friday of each month, during UNIQLO NYC Nights. From Mark Rothko’s immersive canvases, to a larger-than-life hologram exploring invisibility, to a poetic look at everyday photographs, each new exhibition—with many more to come—invites visitors to experience our collection in new ways, catalyzing fresh ideas and perspectives.

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The Just Above Midtown Archives

Aaron Bell. Souvenir print marking the inauguration of Just Above Midtown, signed by individuals involved with the gallery at the time. 1974. Edition: 200
“After 50 years in storage, the JAM archive has a home at MoMA where it can continue to energize, challenge, and inspire current and future generations of artists and those of us who are fortunate to engage and experience their work.”
Linda Goode Bryant, JAM founder, artist, and activist

Following the recent exhibition Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces, MoMA, with a grant from the Mellon Foundation, acquired the Just Above Midtown Archives. The collection—featuring an array of seminal materials including artist files, correspondence, performance documentation, posters, books, and administrative files—illuminates the history and legacy of this pathmaking gallery.

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More accessible art

MoMA’s director of Access Programs and Initiatives, Francesca Rosenberg, with visitors on a verbal description tour. Shown: Claude Monet. Water Lilies. 1914–26. Oil on canvas, three panels. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund. Photo: Martin Seck
“Visiting a museum is still a challenge for someone with a disability. The Museum of Modern Art has been in the forefront of change by providing programs and training.”
The New York Times

This past spring MoMA hosted a free, all-day celebration to commemorate 50 years of touch tours at the Museum and 20 years of our Art inSight program for visitors who are blind or have low vision. Initiatives like these make our collection, exhibitions, and facilities more welcoming and accessible to all.

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30 years of the Black Arts Council

Samara Joy performing at the 2023 Black Arts Council Benefit. Photo: Austin Donohue

An incredible evening was held on April 3 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Black Arts Council. The event recognized the work of over 30 artists, from Romare Bearden to Carrie Mae Weems, whose work the Council has supported for acquisition into MoMA’s collection over its history, and featured a performance by Grammy Award–winning jazz vocalist Samara Joy. To cap this milestone year, the Black Arts Council also announced the creation of a multimillion-dollar endowment to advance its vital work in funding acquisitions by Black artists, supporting educational programs on Black art, and creating opportunities for Black professionals at the Museum.

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Sustainable futures

Bee hives on MoMA’s roof, 2023. Photo: Eliana Glicklich-Cohn

MoMA is dedicated to building sustainable futures at the Museum and beyond. From improving the efficiency of our HVAC systems to creating a home for beehives on our roof, sustainability initiatives are growing across our campus. Last year, our exhibition design and planning teams made great strides towards its goal of zero waste (90% diversion from landfill)—decreasing overall waste by 74%, with more than 76% collected recycled instead of sent to landfill. We’ll keep doing better and doing more.

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Ellsworth Kelly’s centennial

Ellsworth Kelly. Spectrum IV. 1967. Oil on canvas, 13 panels. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mrs. John Hay Whitney Bequest and The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection (both by exchange), and gift of Irving Blum. © 2023 Ellsworth Kelly. Photo: Gus Powell
“The most pleasurable thing in the world is to see something, and then to translate how I see it.”
Ellsworth Kelly

To mark the 100th anniversary of the artist’s birth, a trio of artworks—Spectrum IV (1967), Chatham VI (1971), and Sculpture for a Large Wall (1956–57)—were brought together in the Marron Family Atrium, where they were the center of attention, and selfies, at the Museum. A complementary installation in Gallery 416 offered an intimate look at Kelly’s rarely shown sketchbooks, highlighting his masterful use of color, line, and form.

Take a close look at Ellsworth Kelly’s sketchbooks

Art at your fingertips

Images (left to right): All works collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Top row: Felix Gonzalez-Torres. “Untitled” (Perfect Lovers). 1991. Wall clocks and paint on wall. Gift of the Dannheisser Foundation. © Estate of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Courtesy of the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation; Frances Benjamin Johnston. Stairway of the Treasurer’s Residence: Students at Work from the Hampton Album. 1899–1900. Platinum print. Gift of Lincoln Kirstein; Alma Woodsey Thomas. Untitled (detail). c. 1968. Acrylic and pressure-sensitive tape on cut-and-stapled paper. Gift of Donald B. Marron. Middle row: Yayoi Kusama. Violet Obsession. 1994. Sewn and stuffed fabric over rowboat and oars. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Duke. © 2023 Yayoi Kusama; Vincent van Gogh. The Starry Night (detail). Saint Rémy, June 1889. Oil on canvas. Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (by exchange). Conservation was made possible by the Bank of America Art Conservation Project; Amanda Williams. Currency Exchange, Safe Passage (detail), from the Color(ed) Theory Suite. 2014–16. Inkjet print. Fund for the Twenty-First Century. Bottom row: Agnès Varda, JR. Visages, villages (Faces, Places). 2017. Archival digital files (color, sound), 89 min. Pre-premiere acquisition from the producers JR and Agnès Varda, 2017. © ciné-tamaris - social animals; Wangechi Mutu. Yo Mama (detail). 2003. Ink, mica flakes, acrylic, pressure-sensitive film, cut-and-pasted printed paper, and painted paper on paper. The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift. © 2023 Wangechi Mutu; Keith Haring. Untitled (detail). 1982. Ink on two sheets of paper. Gift of the Estate of Keith Haring, Inc. © 2023 The Keith Haring Foundation
Images (left to right): All works collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Sparking curiosity across the internet, New Tab with MoMA, the Google Chrome extension launched last year to share art from our collection, was embraced by art lovers and techies alike, winning the 2023 People’s Voice Webby Award for NetArt.

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Art party people

Photo: Alycia Kravitz

This year we welcomed revelers from New York City and beyond to gather and enjoy art together, from exhibition openings and Member Evenings to our first-ever Pride Party and the return of Warm Up at MoMA PS1. This unmatched energy was truly thrilling, and we can’t wait to celebrate more with you in the months ahead.

Partnering beyond the Museum

Design workshop at MoMA in collaboration with the Ali Forney Center and Agency—Agency.
Photo: Kelvin Lee and Saralee Sittigaroon

As part of MoMA’s new civic engagement initiative bringing artists and designers together with our partner communities, we connected the Ali Forney Center, which protects and provides services for unhoused LGBTQ youth, with architects Agency—Agency and Chris Woebken Studio, recently featured in the exhibition Architecture Now: New York, New Publics, to codesign spaces within AFC’s new site in Times Square. These new spaces will provide self-care, creative, and sensory support, and will serve as a haven supporting AFC’s mission. For more than 10 years MoMA has partnered with the AFC to bring arts programming to their community—and to share the art they have created at the Museum—so we are deeply moved to be part of the realization of this vital new site.

Thank you

A Family Programs art-making workshop. Photo: Martin Seck

It is thrilling to see the Museum bustling with so much activity—sharing joy, broadening our horizons, creating community, slowing down, and reflecting—and because of your support, we reach millions around the world each year. Thank you for joining us, and we look forward to a year of possibilities ahead.

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