Marina Abramović talks about the difference between theatre and performance art, "performance is real.". Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
Learn about Matisse’s search for essential form in The Blue Window. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
A MoMA educator discusses how she teaches “One: Number 31, 1950" by Jackson Pollock, 1950. Visit MoMA Learning for more teaching and learning resources. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
To learn about other great moments in modern art, take our online course, Modern Art, 1880-1945. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
Take time with Ad Reinhardt's black canvases and discover the rewards of contemplation. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
Learn Barnett Newman's techniques and how he reinvented the traditional figure-ground relationship. To experiment on your own, take our online studio course Materials and Techniques of Postwar Abstract Painting. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
Learn how Franz Kline turned small sketches done on the pages of a phone book into large, gestural abstractions. To experiment on your own, take our online studio course Materials and Techniques of Postwar Abstract Painting. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
Learn about the drip-style painting techniques of one of America's most iconic and influential painters. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
Explore the complex veils of color that form Mark Rothko's abstract paintings. To experiment on your own, take our online studio course Materials and Techniques of Postwar Abstract Painting. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
Discover how artists create different effects with linocuts and woodcuts.
Richard Serra on his sculpture, Band: "you can walk inside and outside continuously and never stop” for more than 70 feet. Learn more about what artists have to say in our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945-1989. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
Richard Serra talks about how this sculpture made of 4 identical plates, allows us to explore 3 very different spaces. To learn more about what artists have to say, take our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945-1989. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
Richard Serra talks about discovering "the potential for what steel could be." To learn more about what artists have to say, take our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945-1989. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
To learn more about how abstract artists became the radical thinkers of their time, take our online course, Modern Art, 1880-1945 or Pigment to Pixel: Color in Modern and Contemporary Art. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
Video by SFMOMA. Artist Kara Walker discusses her interest in popular literature, including romance novels, slave narratives, and even Thomas F. Dixon's 1905 novel The Clansman, and how all of these have influenced her work. Created by Smarthistory.
In our new, free online course, “Seeing Through Photographs,” curator Sarah Meister speaks with artists and scholars to reveal the many different factors that inform the making of a photograph.
Video by The Museum of Modern Art. Sue Williamson, For Thirty Years Next to His Heart, 1990, Forty-nine photocopies in artist-designed frames, overall (approx.): 72 x 103″ (182.9 x 261.6 cm) (The Museum of Modern Art). Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, the Steven and Lisa Tananbaum Curator of Painting and Sculpture, looks at Sue Williamson’s “For Thirty Years Next to His Heart,” in which the 30-year life of one man’s official government passbook “captures the experience of Black South Africans under apartheid”—and serves as a reminder that we must not forget the most difficult chapters of our history. Created by Smarthistory.
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Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture disusses Willem de Kooning, Woman, I, 1950-52, oil on canvas, 6' 3 7/8" x 58" (192.7 x 147.3 cm) © 2014 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York