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Museum of Modern Art locations, hours, and admission Caption: The Museum of Modern Art Renovation and Expansion Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler. Photography by Iwan Baan, Courtesy of MoMA
Tarsila do Amaral - MoMA
Tarsila do Amaral was one of the leading figures in defining a Brazilian modernist tradition. Hers is one of many cases illustrating the centrality of women artists in modernizing art movements throughout Latin America. Decades later, the influence of the Anthropophagic movement was rediscovered, celebrated, and restored by a generation of ...
Virtual Views: Van Gogh’s Starry Night - MoMA
Dec 1, 2020 · Installation. Explore the exhibition. Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night has been a visitor favorite at MoMA since it first appeared in our Van Gogh retrospective in 1935 and then was acquired in 1941. To become acquainted with the heart and mind of its maker, there is no better source than his letters. Those to his brother Theo, in particular, reveal his deepest aims and convictions, and ...
Robert Rauschenberg - MoMA
Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines (1954–1964), a group of artworks which incorporated everyday objects as art materials and which blurred the distinctions between ...
Edward Hopper - MoMA
Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American realist painter and printmaker. He is one of America's most renowned artists and known for his skill in capturing American life and landscapes through his art. Born in Nyack, New York, to a middle-class family, Hopper's early exposure to art was nurtured by his parents.
Mary Cassatt - MoMA
“If I have not been absolutely feminine, then I have failed,” 1 wrote the artist Mary Cassatt in 1892, while at work on a mural for the World’s Columbian Exposition. Among the most prominent painters and printmakers of her generation, Cassatt (1844–1926) had been asked to develop a decorative program on the subject of “modern woman” …
Andy Warhol. Gold Marilyn Monroe. 1962 - MoMA
Soon after her tragic death in 1962, Warhol made a series of paintings paying tribute to Marilyn Monroe, the actress, model, and singer who had captured America’s imagination in films like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire.Warhol based this portrait on a publicity still from the 1953 film Niagara.He painted the background gold …
Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs - MoMA
The Cut-Outs. During the last decade of his life Henri Matisse deployed two simple materials—white paper and gouache—to create works of wide-ranging color and complexity. An unorthodox implement, a pair of scissors, was the tool Matisse used to transform paint and paper into a world of plants, animals, figures, and shapes.
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present - MoMA
Mar 14, 2010 · This performance retrospective traces the prolific career of Marina Abramović (Yugoslav, b. 1946) with approximately fifty works spanning over four decades of her early interventions and sound pieces, video works, installations, photographs, solo performances, and collaborative performances made with Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen). In an endeavor to transmit the presence of the artist and make her ...