In 1920, for the first time in the history of the United States, the majority of the country’s population lived in cities. For architect Frank Lloyd Wright, this was not something to be celebrated.

On a recent warm morning, my colleague Naeem Douglas and I visited Alex Katz in his downtown New York City studio, just days before he decamped to Maine for the summer. Katz was up on a rolling ladder ...

Discover how a uniquely modern American art form found a home at a uniquely modern American museum. Through original recordings, archival audio, and new interviews with jazz legends like Sonny Rollins ...

In honor of Pope.L (1955–2023), read an excerpt from the member: Pope.L, 1978–2001 exhibition catalogue, and come see The Great White Way: 22 Miles, 9 Years, 1 Street in MoMA’s galleries.

Amid the ruins of a city in crisis, young people came together and reshaped the world. As New York City faced a fiscal crisis in the 1970s, the Bronx suffered in particular. The borough grappled with ...

One day, it was a summer night, I was lying in my bed and suddenly I had the impression that a word, as if it were a creature, a being, entered the room, as if it were a fly. Of course, it was ...

I grew up a hundred miles from the nearest art museum, in the infinite flatness of rural Kansas. A fifth-grade field trip brought the first opportunity to visit an art museum, where I found myself ...

January 27 is also the eve of the birthday of the poet, philosopher, and political theorist José Martí, in whose name the Cuban nation has been built and destroyed so many times. To commemorate the ...

Reweaving Ourselves: Contemporary Ecology through the Ideas of Juan Downey is the second online conference organized by the Cisneros Institute at MoMA and conceived by guest curator Julieta González ...

Just as historical time moves without linear progression, the narrative time of Salacia ebbs and flows so that the words with which Jones begins seem to touch her last utterances. Salacia opens with a ...

We meet them in their homes: Carol appears lost in hers, a Tudor mansion decorated with Marcel Breuer chairs and the kind of severely modern furniture that lends it the appearance of an upscale ...

While Donald Judd is best known for his pristine boxes, between 1959 and 1965 he was a critic, writing over 600 reviews and thematic essays. Even though Judd insisted that he wrote art criticism as a ...