Visitor guide

Current exhibitions

  • Oscar Niemeyer. “Modulo” Low Table. 1978. Painted plywood and steel, 9 1/2 × 75 3/4 × 19 3/4" (24.1 × 192.4 × 50.2 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Committee on Architecture and Design Funds

    Crafting Modernity: Design in Latin America, 1940–1980 (en español)

    3 North

  • Oscar Niemeyer. “Modulo” Low Table. 1978. Painted plywood and steel, 9 1/2 × 75 3/4 × 19 3/4" (24.1 × 192.4 × 50.2 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Committee on Architecture and Design Funds

    Crafting Modernity: Design in Latin America, 1940–1980

    3 North

  • Robert Frank. Mabou Winter Footage. 1977. Gelatin silver print, 23 11/16 × 14 3/4" (60.1 × 37.5 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase. © 2024 The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation

    Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue

    3 South

  • Isaac Julien. Lessons of the Hour. 2019. Ten-channel 4K video and 35mm film transferred to high-definition video (color, sound; 28:46 min.) and 10 projection screens, dimensions variable. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the generosity of the Ford Foundation. © 2024 Isaac Julien. Installation view, Metro Pictures, New York, 2019

    Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour

    2 South

  • Tadáskía. ave preta mística mystical black bird. 2022. One from a series of 61 sheets with pencil, colored pencil, pastel, and spray paint on torn paper, each approx. 25 11/16 × 19 11/16" (65.2 × 50 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Fund for the Twenty-First Century. © 2024 Tadáskía

    Projects: Tadáskía

    1 North

  • Leslie Thornton. HANDMADE. 2023. 8K video (color, silent), originally conceived for two 4K monitors, 11:34 min. Courtesy the artist and Rodeo, London/Piraeus. © 2023 Leslie Thornton

    Leslie Thornton’s HANDMADE

    Garden Lobby

  • The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, May 2024. Photo: Jonathan Dorado. Shown: Lynda Benglis. Double Fountain, Mother and Child. 2007. Bronze, in two parts. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the artist and the Fuhrman Family Foundation; Henri Matisse. The Back (I). Spring 1908–late 1909; The Back (II). 1911 (?)–early March or April 1913; The Back (III). May 13, 1913–early fall 1916; The Back (IV). c. 1931. Bronze. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund. © 2024 Succession H. Matisse/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

    Figures and Forms

    Sculpture Garden

From the Collection

Floor 5

1880s–1940s

Artists push boundaries inspired by the energy of a new century.

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Floor 4

1950s–1970s

Abstract gestures, everyday materials, and pop culture fuel creative expression.

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Floor 2

1980s–Present

Expanded fields of artmaking embrace new perspectives and emerging technologies.

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Works of art may be off view and galleries may be temporarily closed.