The New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) emerged as a style in Germany in the 1920s as a challenge to Expressionism. As its name suggests, it offered a return to unsentimental reality and a focus on ...

NARRATOR: The prints in this gallery, and the gallery to your right, include images of human anatomy. Smith’s earliest exhibited work addressed the frailty and endurance of the human body. It depicts ...

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GLENN LOWRY: Oldenburg created the large-scale soft sculptures Floor Burger, Floor Cone, and Floor Cake, for the 1962 installation of The Store at the Green Gallery in midtown Manhattan. CLAES ...

Leah Dickerman: These "White Paintings" may not be prepossessing, but they're among the most radical statements about painting made in the middle of the 20th century. They are blank canvases stretched ...

In April 2000, The Museum of Modern Art’s director, Glenn D. Lowry, joined other American museum directors to present testimony before the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets, ...

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One morning in the summer of 1952, Matisse told his studio assistant and secretary Lydia Delectorskaya that “he wanted to see divers,” so they set out to a favorite pool in Cannes. Suffering under the ...

MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ: Rhythm 5 was about ritualization of the Communist five point star burning my hair, burning my nails. I had almost a serious accident because the fire took all the air, and when I was ...

Immerse yourself in ideas and see your world in new ways through art. In MoMA’s free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on Coursera, you will hear directly from artists and designers, look closely at ...

Curator, T. Lax: Before you is a zine made by the artist, Kandiss Williams, who runs Cassandra Press in Los Angeles. It's a reprint of the essay "Venus in Two Acts" written by cultural historian ...

Leah Dickerman: Here’s Robert Rauschenberg talking about this piece, Automobile Tire Print, which he made with his friend John Cage in 1953. Rauschenberg: I was living on Fulton Street. Fulton Street ...