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Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is one of the world’s great modern and contemporary art collections. MoMA Film is one of the world’s great film collections. It screens movies daily and hosts important film festivals including Doc Fortnight and New Directors/New Films. MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens is MoMA’s experimental art space.

The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute makes MoMA one of the world’s leading Latin American art institutions.

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!

Museum of Modern Art News

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Matisse

Henri Matisse : The Red Studio (1911), looks back at one of the foundational works of Modern Art, at MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, Sun, May 1 – Sep 10. moma.org 🇫🇷

New Film Festival

New Directors / New Films 2022 film festival is at MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, Mon, Apr 25 – May 1. moma.org 🇲🇽

Ivorian Artist

Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: World Unbound is a retrospective of the Ivorian artist’s lifetime of creative observation, at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Midtown, Sun, Mar 13 – Aug 13. moma.org 🇨🇮

NYC Art

Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, Picasso's "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon" (1907) (Bumbleedee/Dreamstime)
Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles D’Avignon” (1907) (Bumbleedee/Dreamstime)

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The Year at Museum of Modern Art

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March

Ivorian Art

Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: World Unbound is the first Ivorian exhibition at MoMA in Midtown, Mar 13 – Aug 13. moma.org 🇨🇮

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May

Matisse

Henri Matisse: The Red Studio is at MoMA in Midtown, May 1 – Sep 10, 2022. moma.org 🇫🇷

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July

Okwui Okpokwasili

Igbo Nigerian American artist Okwui Okpokwasili has a studio residency at MoMA in Midtown, July 16 – Aug 14. moma.org 🇳🇬🇺🇸

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Previously

Greater New York 2021 is at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens Oct 7, 2021 – Apr 18, 2022. moma.org

March 2022

Atlantide, Italian filmmaker Yuri Ancarani’s Venetion coming of age movie, is at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Midtown, Mon-Wed, Mar 21-23. moma.org 🇨🇮

February 2022

Doc Fortnight 2022, MoMA’s documentary film festival, is online to members and in-person at the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, Wed, Feb 23 – Mar 10. 🇧🇷🇫🇷🇲🇽🇵🇭🇪🇸

January 2022

In The Contenders 2021, MoMA Film screens this year’s Oscar contenders through Jan 22. moma.org 🇪🇹🇵🇷🇪🇸

MoMA Film tributes Italian movie legend Federico Fellini, Dec 1, 2021 – Jan 12, 2022. $12. moma.org 🇮🇹

Artist’s Choice: Yto Barrada – A Raft is at MoMA in Midtown through Jan 9, 2022. moma.org 🇫🇷🇲🇦

November 2021

MoMA Film tributes Spanish movie star Penélope Cruz, Nov 19-30. $12. moma.org 🇪🇸

September 2021

Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life is at MoMA in Midtown through Mon, Sep 6, 2021. 🇫🇷

Cézanne Drawing is at MoMA in Midtown through Sat, Sep 25, 2021. 🇫🇷

Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography 1946-1964 is at MoMA in Midtown through Sun, Sep 26. 🇧🇷

Paz Encina

The only film director to emerge from Paraguay in recent times is screening her two features and some shorts at MoMA in Midtown, Fri-Sun, Feb 10-12, 2017

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Elle

Paul Verhoeven’s psychological thriller, starring Isabelle Huppert, is the French Best Foreign Language Film submission to the 88th Academy Awards. MoMA is screening “Elle” December 8, 2016

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Truly Iconic Modern Art

Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, Picasso's "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon" (1907) (Bumbleedee/Dreamstime)
Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles D’Avignon” (1907) (Bumbleedee/Dreamstime)

You can see icon works of modern art in the permanent collection at MoMA. This work is always exhibited, but “New MoMA” which reopened in 2019 is refocused on showing the riches of its permanent collection.

Pablo Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” (1907) is one of these works. It is from the very beginnings of modern art and cubism. Its first exhibition created quite a stir.

It’s a picture of street prostitutes on Calle de Aviñón in Barcelona, Spain. The original title was “Le Bordel d’Avignon” (The Avignon Bordello). People objected to its raw sensuality. They said it was immoral, but the people who said that probably visited that street quite often. They were projecting their own shame. Prostitution is common everywhere where the status of women is low. If society prevents you from getting an education or opportunities, you work with what you have, your body. That is true everywhere in the world. It’s still true, and is becoming even more true as the world destabilizes from climate change, war and now COVID-19. There is no shame in it.

In this painting, Picasso moves his cultural reference to Africa. He flattens the image. The first woman on the left might be a reference to Egyptian art which also paints flat faces in profile. She is also dark-skinned which suggests Africa. Spain is only nine miles from Africa so there’s always been a relationship.

The women in the middle are presented more in the Spanish style. On the right, the women’s faces become African masks. The way one woman’s head is turned completely around on her body suggests that everything is changing. Life is literally turning around.

In a way, “Les Demoiselles” speaks to the current moment (Summer of 2020). From the ancient roots of civilization in the Euphrates River Valley and African Egypt, European civilization developed. After peaking in a mess of colonial world domination, Africans and people of color are rising again. The world keeps turning. Now it’s our turn.

This is just one of the many important pieces from art history that you can see on a visit to MoMA. The galleries have been restructured to flow you through time. A walk through is a literal lesson in art history. Seeing art in life produces a visceral reaction. It’s nothing like looking at pictures in book or online.

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

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