The Museum of Modern Art acquired its first artworks in 1929, the year it was established. Today, MoMA’s evolving collection contains almost 200,000 works from around the world spanning the last 150 ...

Intaglio comes from the Italian word intagliare, meaning "to incise." The intaglio techniques—including etching, engraving, drypoint, and aquatint—all involve incising fine lines into a metal plate.

These lessons—which can be used by themselves or incorporated into a larger unit of study—can be facilitated by a teacher, shared with parents, or followed by a student independently. Archive of ...

Artist, Otobong Nkanga: One of the things I'm really interested in is our relationship to this environment—thinking of labor, extractivism, connection to the land, thinking of ways of renovating, ways ...

Otobong Nkanga: When I was in Nigeria with my mom, we worked a lot with batik-making and dyeing. So my interest in relation to material, in relation to yarns has been from a very young age. I made ...

RECENT gouaches by Stuart Edie, at the Ferargil, are so good that one wishes they were just a little better. In a modest foreword to the catalogue Edie says they "picture a result of things seen, ...

RECENTLY, in speaking to a group in New York, I admonished my listeners to beware of progress, for progress, I said, usually means giving up something worth while for something less attractive. I ...

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In 2018–19, MoMA collaborated with Google Arts & Culture Lab on a project using machine learning to identify artworks in installation photos. That project has concluded, and works are now being ...

This Jam Session playlist presents music by Black artists, spanning from the early 1920s to the present day, selected by Norman Teague and his team as a riff on Teague’s Designer’s Choice exhibition ...

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