Collection

1950s–1970s

New York provides material and inspiration for experiments with architecture and dance.

Artists worldwide embrace abstraction.

New York artists turn toward figures and abstract fields to grapple with a postwar world.

Fields of color convey “the scale of human feelings, human drama.”

Systems of writing infuse abstract art with intuition and emotion.

In the 1950s, artists worldwide found new ways to make their mark.

After World War II, artists gather in Paris to reinvent abstract art.

The artist’s late masterpiece is an immersive, room-scale mural of swimmers, made from cut-out paper.

A tribute to an artist’s attention to process and materials

In Japan and the US, artists give new life to ordinary materials and movements.

Works move between the dance studio and the street as a stage.

In the 1970s, feminist artists invited participation through dance, drawings, music, and poetry.

Immerse yourself in 70 years of the Brooklyn-born filmmaker’s exploration of American life and art.

Pop comes home.

In the 1960s, artists generated new ways of working, experimenting with industrial technologies, mathematical systems, and serial repetition.

Pick up the phone and hear a poem.

Artists confront systems of power and call for revolutionary change.

An artist’s six decades of experimentation across mediums and themes

Midcentury standardized designs encounter the diverse bodies that would use them.

The turbulence of war, media, and consumerism surrounds you in this room-sized Pop painting

Discover how two forms of communication have influenced, challenged, and enriched each other.

The experiences of women around the world are amplified through personal and political art.

Two drawings that span Serra’s career celebrate the action at the heart of it.