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In France, the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded in 1648 under the aegis of Louis XIV, began organizing an annual exhibition in 1667. Because the recurring location for this event was ...

“It’s like a fellow I once knew in El Paso. One day, he just took all his clothes off and jumped in a mess of cactus. I asked him that same question, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘It seemed to be a good idea at ...

An homage in three acts: Louise Lawler shares a postcard, Christopher Williams remembers Baldessari’s studio, and Stephen Prina sings one of the great Conceptualist’s paintings. Christopher Williams, ...

The artist talks about Claude Monet, the muscle memory of painting, and why he’s packing a tube of orange paint for his summer in Maine.

Photography is more accessible today than ever—and that’s something worth celebrating. MoMA Photo Club (MPC) is a Webby Award–winning participatory social media initiative we first launched in May ...

In 1939, at 11 West 53rd Street, a sculpture garden was hastily integrated into plans for the first permanent home of The Museum of Modern Art; it was designed in just a single night by Museum ...

Elizabeth Catlett ’s terra cotta sculpture Mother and Child stands less than a foot off of its pedestal, but it feels much larger. It conveys an expansiveness that comes, to my mind, from the uncanny ...

Hear from artists, writers, and therapists about what happens when art and grief collide.

There is no singular question at the core of Mutu’s work. The artist has said, “The idea of clearcut binaries—African/European, archaic/modern, religion/pornography—I’ve never really believed in that.

I’m sure it’s overwhelming, mining those roots. This body of work stems from a project called Because the human body is a tree, which was a performance in 1990 at Powerhouse Gallery in Montreal. For ...