In MoMA and UNIQLO’s Art for All video series, we explore an artist’s unique approach to capturing the world around them. In this episode, filmmaker John Wilson invites us into his world, where his ...

In 1920, for the first time in the history of the United States, the majority of the country’s population lived in cities. For architect Frank Lloyd Wright, this was not something to be celebrated.

On a recent warm morning, my colleague Naeem Douglas and I visited Alex Katz in his downtown New York City studio, just days before he decamped to Maine for the summer. Katz was up on a rolling ladder ...

Discover how a uniquely modern American art form found a home at a uniquely modern American museum. Through original recordings, archival audio, and new interviews with jazz legends like Sonny Rollins ...

In Sharpening the Scythe, one of Käthe Kollwitz ’s most powerful prints, an older peasant woman grips the blade of her farming tool, preparing it not for cutting crops, but to take part in a revolt.

Amid the ruins of a city in crisis, young people came together and reshaped the world. As New York City faced a fiscal crisis in the 1970s, the Bronx suffered in particular. The borough grappled with ...

Liana Finck is a cartoonist and graphic novelist. She has published three graphic novels, A Bintel Brief (2014), Passing for Human (2018), and Let There Be Light (2022), and a collection of her ...

One day, it was a summer night, I was lying in my bed and suddenly I had the impression that a word, as if it were a creature, a being, entered the room, as if it were a fly. Of course, it was ...

I grew up a hundred miles from the nearest art museum, in the infinite flatness of rural Kansas. A fifth-grade field trip brought the first opportunity to visit an art museum, where I found myself ...

January 27 is also the eve of the birthday of the poet, philosopher, and political theorist José Martí, in whose name the Cuban nation has been built and destroyed so many times. To commemorate the ...

Reweaving Ourselves: Contemporary Ecology through the Ideas of Juan Downey is the second online conference organized by the Cisneros Institute at MoMA and conceived by guest curator Julieta González ...

Just as historical time moves without linear progression, the narrative time of Salacia ebbs and flows so that the words with which Jones begins seem to touch her last utterances. Salacia opens with a ...