As a young curator at The Museum of Modern Art, I first met Bill Viola in 1974. We both were attending a conference hosted by the Everson Museum of Art, where the young, affable Syracuse University ...

Wright not only welcomed this hypothetical migration, he sought to design it. At the 1935 National Alliance of Arts and Industry Exposition at Rockefeller Center, he unveiled a massive, ...

Untitled (Nomsa with Africa) I started wearing my hair in an Afro in 1968, at age 14. Though I didn’t know Kwame Brathwaite then, I am sure I was affected by the Black Is Beautiful movement he ...

A good book can transport you to another time and place, invite you to see things you hadn’t noticed before, or inspire you to try something new. Young or old, now seems like the perfect time to curl ...

Expectations for a future of unlimited potential abounded in the period of political liberation and decolonization across the African continent. In 1957, Ghana peacefully gained independence from ...

Edward Hopper produced closely observed urban views, landscapes (largely of New England), and interior scenes—all either devoid of or sparsely populated by people. Though he insisted that his ...

GLENN LOWRY: By the 1970s, performance art had achieved a level of notoriety and even acceptance. However, because many artists used their bodies aggressively in their performances, it was often ...

Best known for his production of sculptural machines, Swiss artist Jean Tinguely exhibited mechanical works such as this one in the groundbreaking 1955 exhibition Le Mouvement at the Galerie Denise ...

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 ...

“M. Giorgio de Chirico has just bought a pink rubber glove”—so wrote the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire in July of 1914, noting the purchase because, he went on to say, he knew the glove’s ...

Samora Pinderhughes is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, and filmmaker who uses his art to examine sociopolitical issues and fight for change. His practice broadly encompasses sound, performance, ...

Between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, Barbara Kruger, working as a graphic designer for popular magazines, gained recognition in the art world for photo-based images overlaid with blocks of text ...