The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA
Founded in 1929 as an educational institution, The Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world. The museum’s collection offers an unparalleled overview of modern and contemporary art, including works of architecture and design, drawings, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books, film, and electronic media.
MoMA’s library and archives hold over 300,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, as well as individual files on more than 70,000 artists. The archives contain primary source material related to the history of modern and contemporary art. It also houses an award-winning fine dining restaurant, The Modern, run by Alsace-born chef Gabriel Kreuther.
Opening Hours
Sunday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Monday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Tuesday closed The Museum will be open to the public on Tuesday, April 7 and Tuesday April 14, 2009 from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Thursday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Friday 10:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m. Saturday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Thanksgiving Day closed Christmas Day closed
Price
Consult website for entry fees
Wheelchair Access
Sunday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Monday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Tuesday closed The Museum will be open to the public on Tuesday, April 7 and Tuesday April 14, 2009 from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Thursday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Friday 10:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m. Saturday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Thanksgiving Day closed Christmas Day closed
Price
Consult website for entry fees
Wheelchair Access
Yes
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Gabriel Orozco (Mexican, b. 1962) emerged at the beginning of the 1990s as one of the most intriguing and original artists of his generation and one of the last to come of age in the twentieth century, with a body of work that is unique in its formal power and intellectual rigor.
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The Museum of Modern Art presents Paul Sietsema, the first New York exhibition of the artist’s most recent body of work, on view from September 30, 2009, through February 15, 2010.
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This retrospective, presented in collaboration with a consortium of the three Bauhaus collections in Germany (Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, and Klassik Stiftung Weimar), is the first comprehensive treatment of the Bauhaus at MoMA since 1938 and the first major show in the United States on the subject in decades.
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A thematic presentation of significant recent work in photography that examines and expands the conventional definitions of the medium. As traditional photographic techniques are being quickly replaced by digital technologies, the artists included here examine the process and structure of making photographs. Walead Beshty, Daniel Gordon, Leslie Hewitt, Carter Mull, Sterling Ruby, Sara VanDerBeek.
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Artur Zmijewski (Polish, born 1966) works exclusively with photography and film and will show a new film as part of his Projects exhibition. Often taking the position of an observer of human behavior, Zmijewski stages, provokes, and studies unusual social situations.
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Drawing upon the strength of MoMA’s collection, the exhibition includes a number of Surrealism’s most celebrated objects, including Dalí’s bread-and-inkwell-crowned Retrospective Bust of a Woman (1933) and Oppenheim’s notorious fur-lined teacup (1936).
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MoMA presents Polish Posters 1945–89, an installation drawn from the Museum’s collection of 24 posters from the Cold War era of the Polish Poster School, which attracted international attention and admiration.
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MoMA’s Message 1944-56 presents over 100 selections from the Museum’s collection—ranging from domestic furnishings and appliances, to textiles, sporting goods, and graphics—to illuminate the primary values of Good Design as promoted by MoMA within an international debate conducted by museums, design councils, and department stores.
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The Museum of Modern and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center will participate in Performa 09, the third edition of the internationally acclaimed biennial of new visual art performance presented by Performa, a nonprofit interdisciplinary arts organization committed to presenting and researching performance art.
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Following the 2008 MoMA exhibition Looking at Music, which focused on the cross-fertilization between artists and musicians from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, Looking at Music: Side 2 picks up with the subsequent decade of artistic interactions based in New York City.
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The first major U.S. retrospective of Arad’s work. Among the most influential designers of our time, Arad (British, b. Israel 1951) stands out for his adventurous approach to form, structure, technology, and materials in work that spans the disciplines of industrial design, sculpture, architecture, and mixed-medium installation.
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Design is not always pretty. Sometimes it is blunt and aggressive, especially when it is meant to deliver a clear message or depart from tradition and express new ideas. Rough Cut presents a selection of bold designs from MoMA’s collection, ranging from striking posters to fierce chairs, and from incisive videos to vehicles designed for harsh terrains and unforgiving circumstances.
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This exhibition examines approximately 120 works by artists of different nationalities relating to travel and the city of Amsterdam, which was the nexus of intense art activities in the 1960s and 1970s, when artists converged there from all over the world.
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The Museum of Modern Art presents James Ensor—the first exhibition at an American institution to feature the full range of his media in over 30 years.
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Beijing-based artist Song Dong (b.1966) is known for installations that eloquently combine aspects of performance, video, photography, and sculpture. Drawing upon the stuff of everyday life, he frequently uses quotidian materials, ranging from water and paper to mirrors, cookies, and other edibles, in works that explore notions of transience and impermanence in personal, local, and global spheres.
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This exhibition features the proposals of the five finalists in the MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program. Each year five finalists are drawn from a host of emerging American designers to compete with project proposals for a temporary installation in the courtyard of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center.
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MoMA visitors will play a central role in the creation of Measuring the Universe (2007) by Slovakian artist Roman Ondák (b. 1966). Over the course of the exhibition, attendants will record the heights of museumgoers on the gallery walls, along with their first names and the date each measurement is taken.
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In Situ: Architecture and Landscape draws from the rich collection of The Museum of Modern Art to examine the diverse attitudes toward landscape over the last hundred years.
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This intimate installation highlights a group of ten exceptional early modern European paintings given or promised to the Museum by David and Peggy Rockefeller. Featuring superb examples of Post-Impressionist, Fauvist, and Cubist painting that range in date from Paul Cézanne’s Still Life with Fruit Dish (1879-80) to Pablo Picasso’s The Reservoir, Horta de Ebro (summer 1909).
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Visual artists have long been interested in the stage as an arena for experimentation, and their interdisciplinary collaborations have immeasurably enriched the history of modern art. Stage Pictures presents a selection of designs for dance, theater, and opera from MoMA’s drawings collection.
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This exhibition presents a series of discrete installations by Aernout Mik (Dutch, b. 1962), placed in both non-gallery and gallery spaces throughout the Museum. Mik—whose work encompasses motion picture, sculpture, architecture, performance, and social commentary—interrogates the nature of reality and subverts the traditional relationship between viewer and viewed.
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In its exploration of diverse artistic tendencies at the turn of the twenty-first century, this exhibition proudly celebrates the panoramic state of drawing today.
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MoMA published The Printed Picture, a book by Richard Benson that traces the changing technology of picture making from the Renaissance to the present, focusing on the vital role of images in multiple copies. In conjunction with the publication of the book, an educational installation of the material will be presented in the The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries.
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This exhibition focuses on works on paper, including prints, illustrated books, and selected drawings, that explore and manipulate the materiality of paper itself. Many of the featured artists emerged during the 1960s and 1970s, when an interest in everyday materials and nontraditional processes fueled a desire to reinvestigate some of the most familiar or humble mediums, including paper.
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León Ferrari (Argentine, b. 1920) and Mira Schendel (Brazilian, b. Switzerland, 1919–1988) are considered among the most significant artists working in Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century. Their works address language as a major visual subject matter.
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Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West examines how photography has pictured the idea of the American West from 1850 to the present. Photography’s development coincided with the exploration and the settlement of the West, and their simultaneous rise resulted in a complex association that has shaped the perception of the West’s physical and social landscape to this day.
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Klara Liden (Swedish, b. 1979) creates architectural interventions and installations by cannibalizing existing structures and materials, such as cardboard, corrugated metal, drywall, wood, and carpet remnants. With a spirit of activism and rebellion, Liden rethinks the places we inhabit and builds spaces that deviate from their normal functions.
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Over the course of his prolific, influential career, Sol LeWitt (American, 1928–2007) produced more than 1,200 wall drawings. This installation, which fills a single large gallery, features one of LeWitt’s celebrated examples from the Museum’s collection, Wall Drawing #260 (1975).
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In August of 2004 Paul Graham (British, b. 1956), who had moved from London to New York in 2002, set out on the first of many trips around the United States to see and photograph the country for himself. This exhibition has been selected from the resulting series of photographic works, which Graham published in twelve volumes as a shimmer of possibility (steidlMACK, 2007).
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Documentation of the astounding, long-term, endurance-performance art projects of Taiwanese artist Tehching Hsieh, who is best known for his 5 One Year Performances: between 1978 and 1986, the artist spent one year locked inside a cage, one year punching a time clock every hour, one year completely outdoors, one year tied to another person, and, lastly, one year without participating in art.
