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Byline: Philip Kennicott NEW YORK - Käthe Kollwitz is a persistent presence throughout the Museum of Modern Art retrospective of her work. She confronts visitors at the opening of the [...]

I'm not a humanist, I'm a creaturist. Have been since childhood. The pyramidal view of the world that I grew up with -- Man as the crown of creation, with [...]

Joan Jonas's maximalist, category-defying work combines video, performance, folklore, sculpture and ecology. At 87, she still has no intention of simplifying anything. JOAN JONAS, 87, perched on a stool in [...]

A rich perfume wafts through the sixth floor of the Museum of Modern Art, where the installation of Ed Ruscha's full-dress survey ''Now Then'' is underway. You sense it before [...]

The approximately 40 designers represented in ''Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design,'' which opened at the Museum of Modern Art on Saturday, work with materials that can repair themselves, [...]

Full of experiments with new media, the museum's giant exhibition displays the powers and the pitfalls of seeing the world through a screen. Beauty is nice, elegance has its place, [...]

Liza Béar's deadpan anti-thriller returns to the Museum of Modern Art for a limited engagement. A young Moroccan woman slips into Washington, D.C., hoping to provide a journalist with intel [...]

With 120 works on paper and eight paintings spanning more than four decades, this show proposes a new theory about the artist. In the spring of 1946 the Museum of [...]

It doesn't seem like a titillating photograph: an orderly queue of Germans, waiting to enter a nondescript industrial site. It is dark. Just a single light illuminates the door. What [...]

Byline: Sebastian Smee Painting was ecstasy for Henri Matisse. Color worked on his eyes and gut like a self-renewing first crush. But between about 1905 and 1917, he was on [...]

The artist presents a vision of the contemporary in clay as a present-day Pompeii buried under an explosion of too much information. It would be a mistake to refer to [...]

Alan Michelson, a Mohawk artist, explores long-ignored aspects of American history and exploitation of Indigenous landscapes. His work at MoMA PS1 fuses modern media and Native song. To get to [...]

The Marron Atrium of the Museum of Modern Art is a big, awkward space, a hollow that rises from the second to the sixth floor. Since opening amid MoMA's 2004 [...]

In 1974 Andy Warhol bought himself a two-tone Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow -- brown roof, black doors -- custom-ordered from London. It didn't matter that Warhol had no driver's license. For [...]

For many Americans, cars became a lifeline and refuge during the pandemic, even as newly sparkling air over locked-down cities highlighted their darker side. Soul-searching over commuting and climate change [...]

The father figure of modern painting also drew, every day. A show of the master's 'trembling outlines' offers testimony to how a new kind of art was forged. There is [...]

A show drawn primarily from the museum's collection and archives tells the story of its relationship with this early favorite. Where the Museum of Modern Art is concerned, the sculptor [...]

The Secret Stunt Doubles of the Art World When film and TV crews need to set up cameras, or adjust lighting and sound equipment, actors' stand-ins -- people of a [...]

We're living in a post-fact time, but that doesn't mean there are no facts. Here are some. The United States has the largest population of captive human beings on earth, [...]

The Museum of Modern Art reopens with an exemplary show devoted to an essential figure who multitasked his way through the aesthetic and political ferment of Belle Ðpoque Paris. Every [...]

I wonder if it even occurs to young artists in the globalist, pluralist present to try to stake out a spot in art history by changing the way history goes. [...]

Byline: Philip Kennicott NEW YORK - The woman in Dorothea Lange's most famous photograph, often labeled simply 'Migrant Mother,' is, among other things, rather beautiful. Her face may be weathered [...]

To Save and Project, the annual MoMA series, unearths forgotten work by Australian women, a French auteur and even George A. Romero. Just because movies spent more than a century [...]

The maverick artist, the subject of two exhibitions, is known for his grueling street performances, but his real enchantment lies in something weirder. Artists often adopt personas in their work [...]

David Tudor's installation ''Rainforest V (variation 1)'' is coming alive through performances by the artists who helped make it. Since the Museum of Modern Art reopened this month, it has [...]

The exhibition ''Taking a Thread for a Walk'' reveals the museum's underappreciated collection of fiber art and industrial design. For every visitor impassioned by the new collection galleries at the [...]

The museum's new space dedicated to live art opens with David Tudor's ''Rainforest V (variation 1),'' made with everyday objects and electronics. It's an ambiguous name, open to interpretation and [...]

A new exhibition concentrates on the artist's early years, tracking the experiments in printmaking and assemblage that led to her pivotal work ''Black Girl's Window.'' In 1969, Betye Saar made [...]

''Private Lives Public Spaces'' is a thought-provoking show of neglected footage from the museum's collection. With little background information available, you get to play historian and detective. The reopening of [...]

Byline: Sebastian Smee LOS ANGELES -At 93, artist Betye Saar, active since the 1960s, has done enough to warrant some big-time institutional attention. She's getting it. Best known for her [...]

After about six months of indefinite closure, MoMA PS1 has reopened an installation by the artist James Turrell, known for engaging viewers' perceptions with real and artificial light. The work, [...]

After about six months of indefinite closure, MoMA PS1 has reopened an installation by the artist James Turrell, known for engaging viewers' perceptions with real and artificial light. The work, [...]

A small sign outside ''Nancy Spero: Paper Mirror'' at MoMA PS1 says ''this exhibition may not be suitable for all audiences.'' Fair enough, since the show contains some abstract, impressionistic [...]

I stopped visiting MoMA's permanent collection years ago. In my early days in New York City, when I was just starting to write about art, it had been a refuge, [...]

The Museum of Modern Art owns only three paintings by Vincent van Gogh, but they include its biggest crowd-pleaser: ''The Starry Night,'' which the Dutchman completed in 1889, shortly after [...]

The Museum of Modern Art is slouching toward a shutdown starting June 15, in order to complete its latest expansion -- which is really an attempt to fix the last [...]

The first museum show that ever changed my mind about anything was the Museum of Modern Art's giant 1995 Piet Mondrian show, organized jointly with Washington's National Gallery of Art [...]

What differentiates the work in ''New Order: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century'' from much of the art elsewhere at the Museum of Modern Art is that the objects [...]

Very little is theoretical about the work of the Karrabing Film Collective: The history of genocide and discrimination described in their films has been experienced firsthand by the Belyuen community [...]

Very little is theoretical about the work of the Karrabing Film Collective: The history of genocide and discrimination described in their films has been experienced firsthand by the Belyuen community [...]

The relentlessly busy life, aesthetic proclivities and multimedia achievements of Lincoln Kirstein -- this country's most catalytic balletomane -- are in high relief right now in New York, thanks to [...]

Modern bodies at the Modern: from left, Sara Adams, Peter Walker and Unity Phelan performing the first pas de trois from George Balanchine's ''Agon'' at the Museum of Modern Art, [...]

Periodically the Museum of Modern Art orchestrates what I call a Miró Immersion, one of those experiences that can make you an art lover for life or, if that's already [...]

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox. ]Upon arrival at the Booze History Museum in Staten Island, visitors are treated to [...]

First, they came for the graffiti artists. Now it's a famed installation maker.MoMA PS1 has temporarily closed an installation by the artist James Turrell after construction nearby crept high enough [...]

How do you move with innate wisdom? That was Michelle Boulé's question to a group of 30 students in a contemporary dance class last week. They could rest, be in [...]

Three marvelous views of dancing await you at the entrance to the Museum of Modern Art exhibition ''Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done.'' In Gene Friedman's 1964 film [...]

The achievement of the French painter Eugène Delacroix -- the Romantic paragon of 19th-century French art -- is like a huge puzzle whose pieces don't easily fit together. But at [...]