You’re reading this correctly: yes, you can bring art home from The Met. It may sound surprising, but thanks to this week’s launch of a new series of augmented reality (AR) effects designed for Instagram, you can do just that with three objects in the collection. In a first forContinue Reading
At this moment of crisis and change, the Museum of the City of New York is documenting history in real time by crowdsourcing your stories of how all five boroughs are experiencing both the COVID-19 pandemic and the uprisings for Black Lives. On July 23, drawing on these efforts, theContinue Reading
Tues, Nov 24, 2020, 6 pm, Online, via Zoom Nonrepresentational art has meant different things to different artists throughout American art history. This session presents a range of artists who have used abstract language to explore human perception, emotion, embodied experience, and more. It covers the early influence of CubismContinue Reading
Saturday, November 21, 2020, 2–3:30 pm, Online Visitors from the D/deaf community are invited to experience our collection in an online American Sign Language (ASL) tour, led by a Deaf teaching artist. This virtual tour is in ASL only, without voice interpretation, and begins after a brief meet-and-greet. This month, explore multimediaContinue Reading
Join Sarah Henry, Robert A. and Elizabeth Rohn Jeffe Chief Curator and Deputy Director, as she sits down with Simon Doonan, writer, bon vivant, media personality, and famous window dresser, for a talk connected to our exhibition Stettheimer Dollhouse Up Close. When: Thursday, December 3, 2020, 1:30pm, Price: Free with registration, Register The conversation will beContinue Reading
November 20, 2020 – March 14, 2021 On December 18, 1945, the Museum of the City of New York held an unusual event: a house-warming for a doll’s house. Among the invited guests were Georgia O’Keeffe and other artistic luminaries of the day. They gathered to celebrate the unveiling of a one-of-a-kind three-dimensional piece of art made byContinue Reading
Fridays 12 pm Online, via Zoom The Mexican avant-garde that emerged after the Revolution inspired American artists to break free from the European aesthetic domination that had hitherto defined their art. Join a talk that will explore different themes taken from the exhibition American Life: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art: 1925-1945 . Participants willContinue Reading
The Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment Will Be Dedicated to Understanding the Interaction between Architecture and Ecology The Museum of Modern Art announced today the establishment of The Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment. TheContinue Reading
Working Together is an unprecedented exhibition that chronicles the formative years of the Kamoinge Workshop, a collective of Black photographers established in New York City in 1963. “Kamoinge” comes from the language of the Kikuyu people of Kenya, meaning “a group of people acting together,” and reflects the ideal that animatedContinue Reading
Thurs, Nov 19, 2020, 12 pm Online, via Zoom As Mexico emerged from its revolution in 1920, artists looked for ways to respond to new formations of public life. Seeking to connect native culture and art with a modernist sensibility, new, sometimes romanticized, depictions of peasant life took center stage.Continue Reading