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MoMA is a place that fuels creativity, ignites minds, and provides inspiration. Its extraordinary exhibitions and collection of modern and contemporary art are dedicated to helping you understand and enjoy the art of our time. Caption: The Museum of Modern Art Renovation and Expansion Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler.
Current exhibitions - MoMA
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What is modern art? - MoMA
The birth of modernism and modern art can be traced to the Industrial Revolution. This period of rapid changes in manufacturing, transportation, and technology began around the mid-18th century and lasted through the 19th century, profoundly affecting the social, economic, and cultural conditions of life in Western Europe, North America, and eventually the world. New forms of transportation ...
Christian Marclay: The Clock - MoMA
Exhibition. Through Feb 17. Encapsulating 100 years of moving-image history, Christian Marclay’s The Clock (2010) is a 24-hour montage composed from thousands of film and television clips depicting clocks and other references to time. James Bond checks his watch at 12:20 a.m.; Meryl Streep turns off an alarm clock at 6:30 a.m.; a pocket …
Visitor guide - MoMA
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Vincent van Gogh. The Starry Night. Saint Rémy, June 1889 - MoMA
This work is included in the Provenance Research Project, which investigates the ownership history of works in MoMA's collection.. June - September 1889, Vincent van Gogh, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. September 1889 - January 1891, Theo van Gogh (1857-1891), Paris, acquired from his brother Vincent van Gogh.
The Collection - MoMA
Our evolving collection contains almost 200,000 works of modern and contemporary art. More than 104,000 works are currently available online.
In the galleries - MoMA
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is a place that fuels creativity, ignites minds, and provides inspiration. Its extraordinary exhibitions and collection of modern and contemporary art are dedicated to helping you understand and enjoy the art of our time.
Art terms - MoMA
Calotype. William Henry Fox Talbot patented a photographic process in 1841 that led to a stable negative image. The process Though calotypes are soft and hazy, with visible paper fibers, the invention revolutionized image-making by making it possible to …
Pablo Picasso - MoMA
“Variation does not mean evolution,” Pablo Picasso said in 1923. 1 “If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it may be for the better or it may be for the worse.” 2 With these words, Picasso shed light on two central principles of his artistic production over nearly 80 years: his openness to a diverse range ...