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If you would like to reproduce an image of a work of art in MoMA’s collection, or an image of a MoMA publication or archival material (including installation views, checklists, and press releases), ...
Curator, Ann Temkin: This painting is called Woman, I and it has the number after it because ultimately there were six such large-scale paintings of single women that de Kooning worked on in the 1950s ...
Audio from Abstract Expressionist New York. Hear artists, curators, conservators, and friends speak about Abstract Expressionist work in MoMA's collection.
Lobby Manager, Christine Brown: My name is Christine Brown. I'm one of the lobby managers in the Visitor Engagement Department here at MoMA. This is Ladybug by Joan Mitchell. It was painted in 1957.
If you would like to reproduce an image of a work of art in MoMA’s collection, or an image of a MoMA publication or archival material (including installation views, checklists, and press releases), ...
Ann Temkin: The most amazing thing about Pollock I think to many people today still is what appears to be the absolute freedom that he brought to what he did. Painting, Pollock felt, had to get away ...
MoMA Highlights: 375 Works from The Museum of Modern Art Introduction by Glenn D. Lowry, 2019 Flexibound, 408 pages MoMA Now: Highlights from The Museum of Modern Art—Ninetieth Anniversary Edition ...
My name is Fay Bound Alberti. I'm a historian of emotion and the body. This is Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's painting Street, Dresden from 1908.
Curator, Anne Umland: We're looking at a picture, Un Oiseau poursuit une abeille et la baisee. This translates as a bird pursues a bee.
Artist, Gabriel Orozco: I was storing my works small pieces and objects and stuff in shoeboxes, and you know, recycling a shoebox to store things is a very common thing, I guess. So, when I was ...
Claes Oldenburg loved to turn everyday household things into giant sculptures to make us laugh and think about them in a new way. Most fans are hard metal machines made by other machines in a factory.
Audio from Jack Whitten: The Messenger. Who was Jack Whitten? Learn about the life and work of this boundary-breaking artist.