Associated art terms include Architecture, Furniture and interiors, and Installation. Read an interview with Frank O. Gehry on Magazine ...

Gabriele Münter quoted in Annegret Hobert, Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter: Letters and Reminiscences 1902–1914 (Munich and New York: Prestel, 1994), 54. Münter quoted in Hobert, Wassily ...

“I can hear my mother ever since I was a child saying ‘Grace you're so dissatisfied—so restless,’” the artist Grace Hartigan recalled. 1 This impulse to search, question, and change is a recurrent ...

Yoko Ono: You see a room with little – a space between it. Instead of a room that's packed, you know, it has air between there.

What makes a portrait modern? And what makes a modern portrait continue to appear modern, even decades after it was created? For Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), the answer was clear: color. “What I’m ...

Many Surrealist artists, especially in the 1930s, began arranging objects in combinations that challenged reason and summoned subconscious and poetic associations. Their materials were often found ...

Postwar Context In the years following World War II, America enjoyed an unprecedented period of economic and political growth. Many middle class Americans moved to the suburbs, spurred by the ...

Elizabeth Catlett quoted in Samella S. Lewis, “Elizabeth Catlett” in Jeanne Zeidler, ed., Elizabeth Catlett: Works on Paper, 1944–1992, Hampton, Virginia: Hampton University Museum, 1993: 9. Elizabeth ...

Donald Judd is a landmark figure in the history of postwar art. In the 1950s, he studied philosophy and art history and took classes at the Art Students League in New York. He was first publicly ...

In expansive canvases like No Rain (1976), Joan Mitchell combined assertive, richly textured brushwork with vibrant, lyrical color. “ Abstract is not a style, I simply want to make a surface work,” ...

MoMA Highlights: 375 Works from The Museum of Modern Art Introduction by Glenn D. Lowry, 2019 Flexibound, 408 pages MoMA Now: Highlights from The Museum of Modern Art—Ninetieth Anniversary Edition ...

When The Museum of Modern Art’s first director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., met Aleksandr Rodchenko on his trip to Moscow in 1927—one of the first times an Anglophone art historian had visited the Soviet ...