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A Curator’s Guide to American Folk Art

Take a closer look at seven key works that show the complex roots of American art.

When the Artwork Is Alive

More-than-human artworks have an unexpected tendency to act out.

The Digital Ghost of a Vanished Landmark

Uncover how a high-tech archivist preserved a demolished building for posterity.

MoMA Kids

What to Do at MoMA This Summer with Your Kids

Families, find out how to have fun with art at The Museum of Modern Art.

New to MoMA

Arinjoy Sen’s Bengali Song

An artist incorporates shifting political and environmental realities into his epic landscapes of the Bengal Delta.

An Introduction to Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa

In this excerpt from the exhibition catalogue, read about architecture’s role in projecting the forward-looking, cosmopolitan hopes of newly liberated African nations.

Five Iconic Photos of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

What happens when artists famous for their self-portraits are photographed by others?

Drawn to MoMA

Solomon J Brager’s What to Keep

The artist shares a meditation on artistry, queerness, and hoarding.

A Photo Tour in Weeksville

Inspired by MoMA photographs, an art collective takes a walk back in history.

The Afterlives of Slavery and Cameron Rowland’s Readymades

Take a close look at Rowland’s works in Arthur Jafa’s Artist’s Choice exhibition.

Alice Guy Blaché: The Trailblazing Woman Filmmaker Who Understood the Future of Storytelling

One of the most talented and prolific early film directors, lost to history, now returns to the screen.

Hannah Höch’s Fortuitous Beauty

A curator reveals how the renegade Dada artist kept evolving her trailblazing use of photomontage.