Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is One of the World’s Great Modern, Contemporary, Film, and Latin Art Museums

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is one of the world’s great modern art, contemporary art, Latin art, and film collections.

The Cisneros Institute makes MoMA one of the world’s great Latin art institutions. moma.org

MoMA exhibitions are organized around the modern, post-war, and contemporary art periods. The period exhibitions are refreshed constantly from the colleciton.

To get the most out of your visit, take one of the guided tours.

MoMA PS1; in Long Island City, Queens; is MoMA’s experimental art space.

MoMA Film screens films daily, and hosts some film festivals:

• Doc Fortnight documentary film festival.
• New Directors New Films.

MoMA Galleries

MoMA galleries are organized as a walk through art history. That came from the recognition that as much as we like to peg art movements to specific places, art is influenced by people and events around the world.

We encourage you to preview the galleries online before you go. You will find things you want to see in person during your visit.

Collection 1880s-1940s covers the Modern Art period on Floor 5. Paris, France was the center of the art world. Art movements include Impressionism, Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism, Harlem Renaissance, Abstract Expressionism, Outsider art, and many others. World War II put an end to all that. moma.org

Collection 1950s-1970s covers the Post-War Art period and beginning of the Contemporary Art period on Floor 4. The center of the art world moved to New York City with more Abstract Expressionism, plus Pop Art, Conceptual Art, Graffiti, Performance Art, Photorealism, and other movements. moma.org

Collection 1980s-Present covers the Contemporary Art period on Floor 2. New York City was still the center of the art world, although the energy moved first to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and then Berlin, Germany. The rise of affordable international travel and the internet pretty much ended the time when art movements. Today, it’s everything, all-the-time, and anything goes. Have we reached the end of art? moma.org

About the Museum of Modern Art

In 2019, “New MoMA” refocused its exhibitions on the permanent collection and made them more inclusive of time, place and gender. Art didn’t only happen in Prewar Europe. MoMA gets it. ¡Bravo!

The permanent collection at MoMA holds many iconic works of modern art. Seeing art in life produces a visceral reaction. It’s nothing like looking at pictures in book or online.

This is just one of the many important pieces from art history that you can see on a visit to MoMA.

If you can, take one of the tours. Some of the guides teach art history at New York City colleges. They make your visit much more meaningful.

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