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Fourteen Billion Years: Jack Whitten’s Light
In this excerpt from the Jack Whitten: The Messenger exhibition catalogue, artist Julie Mehretu considers Whitten’s dedication to abstraction.
Julie Mehretu
Mar 20, 2025
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Drawn to MoMA
Camila Kerwin’s Swift
Discover the true story of illustrator-turned-ornithologist Althea Sherman.
Camila Kerwin
Mar 19, 2025
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Tribute
Remembering Ricardo Scofidio (1935–2025)
MoMA reflects on the legacy of one of the world’s most original architects.
Martino Stierli, Glenn D. Lowry
Mar 19, 2025
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Magazine Podcast
The Art of Making It Up as You Go
Hear from two artists and an educator about how they use improvisation to engage with art.
Mariana Valencia, Jazmin Romero, Sarah Dinkelacker, Lilia Rocio Taboada
Mar 17, 2025
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Playlist
Woodshedding: Jack Whitten’s Jazz
As a complement to Jack Whitten: The Messenger, listen to some of the artist’s favorite recordings.
Mar 17, 2025
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Playlist
Listen to Odili Donald Odita’s Songs from Life
Take a journey through the music that inspired the artist’s new large-scale commission in MoMA’s lobby.
Mar 10, 2025
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Art and the Senses
Hearing: Janet Cardiff’s The Forty Part Motet
Our latest video takes you from an artist’s studio to a cathedral to illustrate how closing your eyes is sometimes the best way to experience art.
Sarah Cowan
Feb 24, 2025
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Lenore Tawney’s Dark River
The artist’s former sail-making loft on the East River in downtown Manhattan inspired this magisterial work, on view for the first time at MoMA.
Prudence Peiffer
Feb 24, 2025
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Art for All
Inside Tyler Mitchell’s Studio
The acclaimed photographer unveils how he turns the everyday into the ethereal.
Jan 21, 2025
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Art for All
Jamel Shabazz Goes Underground to Find the Soul of His Photography
The street photographer shows us how the New York City subways and a Leonard Freed photo fueled his art.
Nov 18, 2024
In case you missed it
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Through the Open Window: Ralph Lemon and the Legacy of Dance at MoMA PS1
Since its founding, PS1 has served as an incubator of dance. Find out how.
Jody Graf, Serena Moscardelli, Kari Rittenbach
Feb 28, 2025
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Tom Lloyd’s Light Sculptures Are a Form of Resistance
Read about efforts to conserve Lloyd’s Veleuro, and how the artist subverted expectations about art and its relationship to protest.
Reinhard Bek, Naeem Douglas, Michelle Kuo
Feb 24, 2025
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From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf
Screen CAMP’s alternative document of maritime culture, camaraderie and commerce, made using cell phone cameras, in collaboration with sailors who regularly traverse the Western Indian Ocean.
Stuart Comer, Rattanamol Singh Johal
Feb 20, 2025
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The Wounded Wilderness: Betye Saar on Creation from the Ashes
After evacuating her home and studio during the devastating fires last month in Los Angeles, Saar recalls how an earlier fire there changed her art.
Betye Saar, Christophe Cherix
Feb 10, 2025
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